The writings that were preserved from Anne Frank’s life can be held in one hand. Yet, their reach throughout the world has been immeasurable. In these short videos, Dr. Klaus Mueller, co-curator of the Holocaust Museum’s 2003 exhibit, “Anne Frank, the Writer“, and its Representative for Europe, comments on how literary critics have tended to dismiss the quality of Anne’s writings, despite the considerable impact they’ve had on legions of people.
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For the 2003 exhibition Anne Frank, the Writer: An Unfinished Story, the Holocaust Museum – thanks to a generous loan from the Netherlands – was able to display the original notebooks and diaries of Anne Frank for the first time in one place. Anne’s writings had never before been shown outside the Netherlands. Now, her complete writings are being transferred from the Government of the Netherlands to the Anne Frank House, where they will be on display beginning April 28, 2010. Recently we filmed some short clips of Dr. Klaus Mueller, the Museum’s Representative for Europe and co-curator of the 2003 exhibition to share his thoughts about Anne’s writing, which we will share throughout this week. In this first clip, Dr. Mueller reflects that while many people lament the writer that Anne could have been had she survived the Holocaust, in so doing they overlook what she did accomplish.
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