On this day in television history - Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001 miniseries & books):

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

a two-part TV miniseries directed by Robert Dornhelm,

written by Kirk Ellis,

based on the book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller,

was released in the United States on May 20, 2001.

Music by Graeme Revell.

Cast:

Ben Kingsley, Hannah Taylor Gordon, Brenda Blethyn, Lili Taylor, Jessica Manley, Carly Wijs, Tatjana Blacher, Jean-Luc Julien, Joachim Król, Nicholas Audsley, Jan Niklas, Peter Bolhuis, Victoria Anne Brown, Jeff Caster, Rob Das, Cees Geel, Holger Daemgen, Michaela Horáková, Johannes Silberschneider, Jade Williams, Branka Katic, Klára Issová, Karel Dobrý, Veronika Nowag-Jones, Nancy Bishop, Dominique Horwitz, Suzanne Friedline, Pavel Kríz, Petra Lustigová, Joel Kirby, Robert Russell, David O’Kelly, Petr Meissel, Yanna Fabian, Zdenka Volencová, Howard Lotker, Michael E. Perry, Phil Jones, Nicky Kantor, Jaroslava Siktancova, Jelena Juklová, Jan Klíma, Lisa-Marie Gravell, Ela Lehotská, Olga Schmidtová, Kristina Beranova, Talya Gordon, Alec Gordon.

Recommended reading:

Anne Frank: The Biography:

Updated and Expanded with New Material

By Melissa Müller.

Published by Metropolitan Books.

Published 2013.

ISBN-10: 0805087311

ISBN-13: 978-0805087314

Description:

Praised as "remarkable," "meticulous," and "long overdue," Anne Frank: The Biography, originally published in 1998, still stands as the definitive account of the girl who has become "the human face of the Holocaust." For this nuanced portrait of her famous subject, biographer Melissa Müller drew on exclusive interviews with family and friends as well as on previously unavailable correspondence, even, in the process, discovering five missing diary pages. Full of revelations, Müller's richly textured narrative returned Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood girl unsentimentalized and so all the more affecting. Now, fifteen years after the book first appeared, much new information has come to light: letters sent by Otto Frank to relatives in America as he sought to emigrate with his family, the identity of other suspects involved in the betrayal of the Franks, and important details about the family's arrest and subsequent fate. Revised and updated with more than thirty percent new material, this is an indispensable volume for all those who seek a deeper understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived and died.

The Diary

By Anne Frank.

Published by Turtleback Books.

First published 1948.

ISBN-10: 1417643099

ISBN-13: 9781417643097

Description:

Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl – stubbornly honest, touchingly vulnerable, in love with life. She imparts her deeply secret world of soul-searching and hungering for affection, rebellious clashes with her mother, romance and newly discovered sexuality, and wry, candid observations of her companions. Facing hunger, fear of discovery and death, and the petty frustrations of such confined quarters, Anne writes with adult wisdom and views beyond her years. Her story is that of every teenager, lived out in conditions few teenagers have ever known.