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Bearing witness

by Kerry Reid

Wendy Kesselman's 1997 adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank did some things that original adapters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett didn't back in 1955 (slightly more than ten years after Anne's death from typhus at Bergen-Belsen). In Kesselman's version, Anne, like any adolescent, complains a lot about her mother, Edith. (Reportedly, Anne's father, Otto, […] The post Bearing witness appeared first on Chicago R…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 4:28pm on February 21, 2024