The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank
by Willy Lindwer
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Author: Willy LindwerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-07-01
ISBN: 0385423608
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Anchor
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Summary: 5 Stars
Anne Frank is definitely one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust, but it's easy to forget that her story is just one in the millions of others. Filmmaker Willy Lindwer interviewed six women who encountered Anne and the rest of the Frank family after their August 1944 arrest for his documentary The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank and released a book of the same name.
Hannah Goslar had been close friends with Anne since both were little girls and was shocked to find her on the other side of a Bergen-Belsen fence, believing that the Franks had fled to Switzerland. An entry in Anne's diary describes a frightening dream in which Hannah (or Lies as she was known) was covered in rags and dying of starvation and disease begging her friend to save her. Sadly, the situation ended up being reversed.
Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper, a captured Dutch Resistance fighter, and her sister befriended Anne and Margot in the Westerbork transit camp and all four were later transported to Auschwitz and the wasteland that was Bergen-Belsen. Janny remembers seeing Anne wearing nothing but an old blanket after tearing off her lice infested clothes during a hallucination brought on by typhus. That was the last time she saw her alive. Rachel van Amerongen-Frankfoorder remembers both girls wasted away to bones lying next to the oftentimes open door of the barracks in the dead of winter.
Bloeme Evers-Emden's, a classmate of the Frank sisters, account of life in the extermination camps digs a bit deeper than the others by focusing on the psyche of a prisoner and the importance of support groups to help each other get through the day. According to her, whatever issues Anne had with her mother while in hiding faded away in the scene of Auschwitz and the two along with Margot stuck together at all times.
While sharing Anne's final days, all of the women show a common thread of being innocent people punished and persecuted for no reason at all. Some were mothers, teens, and students. They had friends and family members who met unfortunate deaths, witnessed lives being destroyed on a daily basis, and not being able to do a thing to stop it. They also speak about how they managed to build lives for themselves out of the pure hell they endured and the importance of remembering the past so that it never repeats itself. No matter how hard it is.
Summary of The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank
The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survived the hell from which Anne Frank never retumed.Jewish Books
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