![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Others warn of the dangers of relying too heavily on Anne’s diary for an understanding of the period. She was an appealing girl, but one who can be easily exploited,” observes Marvin Prosono, a sociologist at Southwest Missouri State University and an authority on Holocaust literature. “It still has its uses if you put it in the proper context.” “Reading her diary is a convenient way, a hook, to introduce the Holocaust to, say, eighth graders in Iowa,” Graver adds. It has suspense, romance, tragedy and potential uplift,” says Lawrence Graver of Williams College in Massachusetts, who has written extensively on Anne, including her entry in the current Yale Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. “The basic story is extraordinarily engrossing. What accounts for the continuing, even escalating, fascination with Anne, which arguably has made her the foremost icon of the Holocaust? In Boise, Idaho, ground has been broken on a $1.6 million Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial and Park. An interactive CD-ROM titled “Anne Frank House: A House with a Story” was released earlier this year, offering a virtual tour of the building and the “secret annex” where the Frank family hid. The Helios Dance Theater premiered “About Anne: A Diary in Dance” in Los Angeles last month. A new edition of the diary, including five previously unpublished pages describing her parents’ difficult marriage, was released in March. ![]()
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