Items related to Anne Frank : The Biography
With an Epilogue by Miep Giess
The first biography of the girl whose fate has touched the lives of millions. For people all over the world, Anne Frank, the vivacious, intelligent Jewish girl with a crooked smile and huge dark eyes, has become the "human face of the Holocaust." Her diary of twenty-five months in hiding, a precious record of her struggle to keep hope alive through the darkest days of this century, has touched the hearts of millions. Here, after five decades, is the first biography of this remarkable figure. Drawing on exclusive interviews with family and friends, on previously unavailable correspondence, and on documents long kept secret, Melissa Muller creates a nuanced portrait of her famous subject. This is the flesh-and-blood Anne Frank, unsentimentalized and so all the more affecting--Anne Frank restored to history. Muller traces Frank's life from an idyllic childhood in an assimilated family well established in Frankfurt banking circles to her passionate adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam and her desperate in Bergen Belsen at the age of sixteen. Full of revelations, this richly textured biography casts new light on Anne's relations with her mother, whom she treats harshly in the diary, and solves an enduring mystery: who betrayed the families hiding in the annex just when liberation was at hand? This is an indispensable volume for all those who seek a deeper, richer understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived and died.
The first biography of the girl whose fate has touched the lives of millions. For people all over the world, Anne Frank, the vivacious, intelligent Jewish girl with a crooked smile and huge dark eyes, has become the "human face of the Holocaust." Her diary of twenty-five months in hiding, a precious record of her struggle to keep hope alive through the darkest days of this century, has touched the hearts of millions. Here, after five decades, is the first biography of this remarkable figure. Drawing on exclusive interviews with family and friends, on previously unavailable correspondence, and on documents long kept secret, Melissa Muller creates a nuanced portrait of her famous subject. This is the flesh-and-blood Anne Frank, unsentimentalized and so all the more affecting--Anne Frank restored to history. Muller traces Frank's life from an idyllic childhood in an assimilated family well established in Frankfurt banking circles to her passionate adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam and her desperate in Bergen Belsen at the age of sixteen. Full of revelations, this richly textured biography casts new light on Anne's relations with her mother, whom she treats harshly in the diary, and solves an enduring mystery: who betrayed the families hiding in the annex just when liberation was at hand? This is an indispensable volume for all those who seek a deeper, richer understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived and died.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
One of this book's great strengths is writer Melissa Müller's ability to situate Anne Frank's famous diary within a larger historical and biographical context--more than half of it covers the years before the Franks went into hiding. Equally important is her discovery of the existence of five pages Otto Frank removed from his daughter's original diary and entrusted shortly before his death to Cor Sujik, international director of New York's Anne Frank Center. Sujik showed these pages to Müller, who accurately notes in the biography that they "enhance our understanding of the diary's author."
About the Author:
Until now, readers have known the eight people sequestered in the secret annex through Anne's eyes only. Müller reveals everyone's correct names (they were changed for the diary's publication) and tactfully corrects a teenager's skewed perceptions when necessary, always reminding us of the claustrophobic closeness and material deprivation that sometimes fueled Anne's uncharitable comments about, for example, the middle-aged dentist with whom she was forced to share a room. Müller also plausibly identifies the Dutch informant who betrayed the secret annex's inhabitants to the Gestapo. Horror suffuses Müller's grim recap of the Franks' ordeal at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, though there is some comfort in survivors' reports that Anne, her mother, and her older sister formed "an inseparable trio," all former quarrels forgotten in their fierce struggle to save each other. They failed, and Müller does not gloss over that tragedy. But she reminds us that, "In the end, the Nazi terror could not silence Anne's voice, which still rings out for all of us."
Melissa Muller is a journalist who has written extensively on childhood. She lives in Munich and Vienna.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherMetropolitan Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0805059962
- ISBN 13 9780805059960
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 14.50
Shipping:
US$ 4.50
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Anne Frank : The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # 0805059962-3-31009166
Buy Used
US$ 4.08
Convert currency
Stock Image
Anne Frank : The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 4
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00063649456
Buy Used
US$ 4.09
Convert currency
Stock Image
Anne Frank : The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Fine. Seller Inventory # mon0000649691
Buy Used
US$ 1.50
Convert currency
Stock Image
Anne Frank : The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Seller Inventory # R05C-02811
Buy Used
US$ 5.69
Convert currency
Stock Image
Anne Frank : The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. Seller Inventory # Q22N-01792
Buy Used
US$ 5.69
Convert currency
Stock Image
Anne Frank: The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0805059962I4N00
Buy Used
US$ 6.22
Convert currency
Stock Image
Anne Frank: The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0805059962I3N00
Buy Used
US$ 6.22
Convert currency
Stock Image
Anne Frank: The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0805059962I3N00
Buy Used
US$ 6.22
Convert currency
Stock Image
Anne Frank: The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0805059962I4N01
Buy Used
US$ 6.22
Convert currency
Stock Image
Anne Frank: The Biography
Published by
Metropolitan Books
(1998)
ISBN 10: 0805059962
ISBN 13: 9780805059960
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G0805059962I3N01
Buy Used
US$ 6.22
Convert currency