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In October, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles launched \u201cAnne: A Premier Experiential Exhibit\u201d to commemorate the life of Anne Frank, who would have turned 85 on Thursday, for a 10-year stay. I had the opportunity to visit the exhibit Sunday as a kind of introduction to a performance of \u201cAbout Anne: A Diary in Dance\u201d by\u00a0the Helios Dance Theater company<\/a>. A second performance will take place Thursday.<\/p>\n

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I think most of us have read or know about\u00a0The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>\u00a0(or\u00a0Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl<\/em>), first published in 1947 by her father, Otto Frank, in Dutch. The book has been translated into at least 67 languages, including into English in the United States in 1952, and has sold 30 million copies. Numerous films based on the diary as well as interpretations for television and stage have been produced since Otto Frank discovered the red plaid diary in his family\u2019s hiding place after he was liberated from Auschwitz. Anne and her sister, Margot, died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp just weeks before liberation.<\/p>\n

Anne received the diary for her 13th birthday and named it Kitty after her imaginary friend. In it, Anne writes letters to Kitty and recounts the daily life of eight people hidden in a secret annex in Amsterdam for just over two years during the Nazi occupation: Anne, Margot and their parents; the van Pels family, consisting of mother, father and son; and a dentist, Fritz Pfeffer.<\/p>\n

Anne does more than recount daily life in the hiding place Otto prepared in the building where his business was located. She explores the meaning of life and love and the beginnings of a romance. The diary reveals that the young adolescent Anne was close to her father but not to her mother.<\/p>\n

It takes a good hour to walk through and experience the exhibit. There are a few films to watch \u2014 some very short, others a few minutes long \u2014 and many photographs, facsimiles \u00a0CLICK HERE to continue reading at the National Catholic Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n

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