Six million Jews died in the Holocaust.
For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story
and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her
diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in
an Amsterdam attic.
In 1944 the Nazis, acting on a tip, arrested the Franks; Anne and
her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen only a month before the
camp was liberated. The world came to know her through her words and
through this ordinary portrait of a girl of 14. She stares with big
eyes, wearing an enigmatic expression, gazing at a future that the
viewer knows will never come.
