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The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer; Doubleday; 1988 This is a good follow-up to the Diary for those students who wish to know more explicitly the fate of Anne Frank. Through first-hand interviews and accounts of women in Bergen-Belsen, the author patches together a story of Anne Frank's experiences. It is a disturbing, but very effective learning tool. For older readers.
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Willy Lindwer, a native of Amsterdam, is the son of Holocaust survivors. He graducated from the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam in 1971. [1] He founded the production company AVA Productions in 1985, which has been dedicated to producing international documentaries that are distributed world wide that often focus on the Holocaust or Jewish themes.[1]
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Dutch film director Willy Lindwer said in an interview with a Dutch newspaper that even the way the establishment has made Anne Frank House in Amsterdam into a museum represents the whitewash approach. At the beginning of the 1980s, Lindwer approached the director of Anne Frank House and asked to document the last seven months of Anne's life. Anne did not spend those months in the house on the Prinsengracht, but in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. The director replied with an absolute refusal. "They didn't even let me film inside the house," Lindwer says. In the end, he shot the film elsewhere - and won an Emmy.
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[One] aspect of Anne Frank's life was only stressed in 1988 when Dutch filmmaker Willy Lindwer received the international Emmy award for his documentary The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank focusing on her short life after betrayal. The director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam demonstrated his support for the whitewashing of wartime Dutch history when he refused to allow Lindwer to film at the museum. Lindwer quotes him as saying: "Anne Frank is a symbol. Symbols should not be shown to die in a concentration camp."[7]
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Willy Lindwer was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. When Lindwer finished his study, he worked for several Dutch production companies. In 1985 he established his own company, AVA-Productions, in which he has made most of his films.
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Willy Lindwer has ... published several books, some of which are based on the films he has made. His most famous work as an author is also The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, translated into English by Alison Meersschaert.
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