Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by countless admirers.
The 2003 movie “Anne B. Real,” based on “The Diary of Anne Frank” but set in East Harlem, is “the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration” in the writings of the girl who would perish in a concentration camp, according to IMDB. Uh-oh. You might expect Ruth Franklin to take everyone associated with the film to task in her new book, “The Many Lives of Anne Frank”: The charge of careless cultural appropriation seems almost too easy to make.
So on July 6, 1942 — a day after Margot was summoned by the Nazis, ostensibly for a work detail but really as a prelude to Auschwitz — the Franks hid themselves in an annex above Prinsengracht 263, the warehouse where Otto, a spice and herb merchant, had set up shop. They would spend 761 days in hiding, a period that Anne famously documented in “Het Achterhuis” . But as powerful as that chronicle is, it is also the work of a 13-year-old girl with little access to the outside world.
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