The Anne Frank House had a record number of visitors for the sixth consecutive year. Some 1,268,095 people in 2015 visited the Anne Frank House, located at the site in Amsterdam where the young diarist hid from the Nazis with her family. That is 40,633 more than the previous record of 1,227,462 in 2014. “We…
Two editions of the “Diary of Anne Frank” were published online in a challenge to the foundation that allocates the book’s royalties. A French lawmaker and a French scholar published the diary on Jan. 1, when the current copyright expired. European copyrights generally expire 70 years after an author’s death, thus the copyright was expected…
When Anne Frank wrote in her diary to pass the time, she probably never even thought about copyright law or the sticky question of who would come to own her words. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 at the age of 15, but her father Otto survived and eventually was persuaded to…
In two separate challenges to the foundation that owns the rights to Anne Frank’s diary and is seeking to extend its copyright, a French lawmaker and a French scholar each plan to publish the text online in January. Isabelle Attard, a French Parliament member whose own grandparents died in the Holocaust, plans to publish the…
This week, The New York Times reported that the Swiss foundation holding the copyright to “The Diary of Anne Frank” declared Otto Frank, Anne’s father, to be the co-author as well as the editor of her celebrated diary. This controversial move extends the foundation’s hold on the copyright in Europe by 34 years. As the…
An administrator at a California high school is being criticized for two light-hearted tweets about Anne Frank, the famous Holocaust victim whose diary from her years in hiding inspired a play and movie. Charles Mazet, assistant principal at Palm Desert High School in Palm Springs, California, promoted a school production of “The Diary of Anne…
Anne Frank would have liked Audrey Hepburn. After all, her with the teenager’s movie star aspirations. But the two actually share a much closer bond than you might think. According to a new memoir written by Hepburn’s son, the actress was one of the first to read what would become “Diary of a Young Girl,”…
A Dutch author published a book alleging that his aunt may have told Nazi authorities where to find Anne Frank and her family. The allegation appeared in a biography that was published Tuesday about the Dutch resistance activist Elisabeth “Bep” Voskuijl. The book, coauthored by Voskuijl’s son and the Flemish journalist Jeroen De Bruyn, explores…
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