The Diary That Changed the World: The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and the Diary of Anne Frank

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Karen Bartlett

The Diary That Changed the World

The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and the Diary of Anne Frank

Karen Bartlett

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English

Biteback Publishing
01 September 2022

Biography: literary; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; The Holocaust; Second World War

To build up a future, you have to know the past.' Otto Frank, 1967 In late 1940s Amsterdam, when Otto Frank unwrapped his daughter Anne's diary with trembling hands and began to read the first pages, he discovered a side to his daughter that was as much a revelation to him as it would be to the rest of the world. He did not know that he was about to create an icon at the heart of a debate about twentieth-century history - with themes about growing up, persecution, human values and religion that are still contested today.

Nor did he realise that publication would spark a bitter battle that would embroil him in years of legal contest and eventually drive him to a nervous breakdown and exile. Today, more than seventy-five years after Anne's death, the diary is at the centre of a multi-million-pound industry, with competing foundations, cultural critics and former friends and relatives fighting for the right to control it. This book goes beyond conventional biographies to examine the story of The Diary of Anne Frank, the highly controversial part it played in twentieth-century history and the publishing world, and the fundamental role it has played in our understanding of the Holocaust. At the same time, it sheds new light on the life and character of Otto Frank, the complex, driven and deeply human figure who lived in the shadows of the terrible events that robbed him of his family, while he painstakingly crafted and controlled his daughter's story.

By: Karen Bartlett
Imprint: Biteback Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781785906152
ISBN 10: 1785906151
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karen Bartlett is a writer and journalist based in London. She has written extensively for the Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian and WIRED from Africa, India and the US, and has presented and produced for BBC Radio. She was the youngest director of democratic reform and human rights campaign group Charter88 and began her career in the UK and South Africa. She is the author of After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival (with Eva Schloss), Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Holocaust and the bestselling Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend.