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<\/a>An acknowledged <\/span>fraud<\/span><\/a> <\/span>that was recognised as such by the courts in a little publicised verdict, the Anne Frank Diary is more about making money than historical<\/span> fact<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\nThis may explain why there are disputes over projects connected to her tragic life. They aren’t about historical facts, although maybe they should be, these disputes are essentially about money and brand name.<\/h5>\nEven in covering the dispute however, the Hollywood Reporter gets its facts wrong and perpetuates the myths surrounding Frank. For instance she wasn’t “murdered” by the Nazis, as the article claims. Anne Frank actually<\/span> succumbed to Typhus<\/span><\/a> as did many others who died in Nazi concentration camps.<\/h5>\nShe didn’t die in a “gas-chamber” but was one of the many who died in the epidemics that swept the<\/span> camps<\/span><\/a>, which were compounded by Allied bombing that destroyed the camps water supplies. <\/span><\/h5>\nYves Kugelmann<\/span><\/strong>, a member of the board of the Anne Frank Fund, even admits her legacy has “become incredibly commercialized — Anne Frank has become a brand”.<\/h5>\nLike Coca-Cola or Yvez Saint Laurant this isn’t about history, this is about product recognition and placement. Like the Holocaust Industry itself, this is more about generating profit and guilt for political leverage than historical fact.<\/h5>\n
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Contrast the attention paid to Anne Frank’s tragic death with that accorded to the many Palestinian children who are regularly, and in many cases deliberately targeted and murdered, by Israeli forces.<\/h5>\nNo stage plays, films or profitable book deals for them. For most of these deaths are recorded by a few brief lines in the corporate media without the lucrative lamentations. <\/span><\/h5>\nBut that, as they say, is business and in the Holocaust Industry it is all that really counts. <\/span><\/h5>\nRival Anne Frank Film, TV Projects Spark Furor<\/h1>\nScott Roxborough — Hollywood Reporter Jan 2014<\/h2>\n
In 2015, it will have been 70 years since the Nazis murdered Anne Frank<\/strong>, and the anniversary coincides with renewed interest in the Jewish girl and her famed diary chronicling a life in hiding.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nAt least three major biographical projects on Frank’s life are in the works, including two feature films (one live-action, one animated) and a miniseries. But the question of who gets to tell Frank’s story — and how <\/em>that story will be told — has ignited a battle in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nOn Jan. 13, German production firms Moovie and Constantin Film, together with public broadcaster ZDF, unveiled plans for a German-language miniseries based on Frank’s life. The project immediately was condemned by the Anne Frank Fund, the Swiss foundation that holds rights to Frank’s diary and the Frank family archive. The fund accused Constantin and ZDF of violating “all standards of convention, fairness and decency” by going ahead with a Frank project without the fund’s participation and accused the producers of “disrespecting the Frank family, which was largely massacred in the Holocaust.” It wants ZDF and Constantin to cancel their project, set to begin shooting in the summer, and has threatened legal action if they don’t.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n“This is not about money for us,” Yves Kugelmann<\/strong>, member of the board of the Anne Frank Fund, tells THR<\/em>, noting that the fund is a nonprofit with proceeds going to education and charitable projects. “This is about Anne Frank’s legacy. She has become incredibly commercialized — Anne Frank has become a brand, separated from the real person and her identity.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nFrank’s diary, first published by her father, Otto<\/strong>, in 1947 after her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The 1959 biopic The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>, featuring Millie Perkins <\/strong>as Anne, won three Oscars. A 1980 TV movie starring Melissa Gilbert <\/strong>received three Emmy noms, and the 2001 ABC miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story<\/em> won two Emmys.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nThe fund recently gave its blessing to two other Frank projects: an animated take on her life from Waltz With Bashir<\/em> director Ari Folman<\/strong> and a German-language live-action feature to be written by Fred Breinersdorfer<\/strong> (who penned the Oscar-nominated Sophie Scholl: The Final Days<\/em>) and directed by Hans Steinbichler<\/strong> (Winter Journey<\/em>). The fund offered ZDF an opportunity to partner on the German project, says Kugelmann, but the broadcaster said no.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nAlthough producers of the Folman and Breinersdorfer biopics say they will adhere to the facts as recorded in the Anne Frank archive, the TV project intends to link the story to a fictionalized modern narrative. ZDF says it hopes its project will appeal to younger viewers, noting it has the support of the Anne Frank Foundation, a fund rival that runs the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, and Salomon Korn<\/span><\/strong>, vp at the Central Council of Jews in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n
She didn’t die in a “gas-chamber” but was one of the many who died in the epidemics that swept the<\/span> camps<\/span><\/a>, which were compounded by Allied bombing that destroyed the camps water supplies. <\/span><\/h5>\nYves Kugelmann<\/span><\/strong>, a member of the board of the Anne Frank Fund, even admits her legacy has “become incredibly commercialized — Anne Frank has become a brand”.<\/h5>\nLike Coca-Cola or Yvez Saint Laurant this isn’t about history, this is about product recognition and placement. Like the Holocaust Industry itself, this is more about generating profit and guilt for political leverage than historical fact.<\/h5>\n
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Contrast the attention paid to Anne Frank’s tragic death with that accorded to the many Palestinian children who are regularly, and in many cases deliberately targeted and murdered, by Israeli forces.<\/h5>\nNo stage plays, films or profitable book deals for them. For most of these deaths are recorded by a few brief lines in the corporate media without the lucrative lamentations. <\/span><\/h5>\nBut that, as they say, is business and in the Holocaust Industry it is all that really counts. <\/span><\/h5>\nRival Anne Frank Film, TV Projects Spark Furor<\/h1>\nScott Roxborough — Hollywood Reporter Jan 2014<\/h2>\n
In 2015, it will have been 70 years since the Nazis murdered Anne Frank<\/strong>, and the anniversary coincides with renewed interest in the Jewish girl and her famed diary chronicling a life in hiding.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nAt least three major biographical projects on Frank’s life are in the works, including two feature films (one live-action, one animated) and a miniseries. But the question of who gets to tell Frank’s story — and how <\/em>that story will be told — has ignited a battle in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nOn Jan. 13, German production firms Moovie and Constantin Film, together with public broadcaster ZDF, unveiled plans for a German-language miniseries based on Frank’s life. The project immediately was condemned by the Anne Frank Fund, the Swiss foundation that holds rights to Frank’s diary and the Frank family archive. The fund accused Constantin and ZDF of violating “all standards of convention, fairness and decency” by going ahead with a Frank project without the fund’s participation and accused the producers of “disrespecting the Frank family, which was largely massacred in the Holocaust.” It wants ZDF and Constantin to cancel their project, set to begin shooting in the summer, and has threatened legal action if they don’t.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n“This is not about money for us,” Yves Kugelmann<\/strong>, member of the board of the Anne Frank Fund, tells THR<\/em>, noting that the fund is a nonprofit with proceeds going to education and charitable projects. “This is about Anne Frank’s legacy. She has become incredibly commercialized — Anne Frank has become a brand, separated from the real person and her identity.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nFrank’s diary, first published by her father, Otto<\/strong>, in 1947 after her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The 1959 biopic The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>, featuring Millie Perkins <\/strong>as Anne, won three Oscars. A 1980 TV movie starring Melissa Gilbert <\/strong>received three Emmy noms, and the 2001 ABC miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story<\/em> won two Emmys.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nThe fund recently gave its blessing to two other Frank projects: an animated take on her life from Waltz With Bashir<\/em> director Ari Folman<\/strong> and a German-language live-action feature to be written by Fred Breinersdorfer<\/strong> (who penned the Oscar-nominated Sophie Scholl: The Final Days<\/em>) and directed by Hans Steinbichler<\/strong> (Winter Journey<\/em>). The fund offered ZDF an opportunity to partner on the German project, says Kugelmann, but the broadcaster said no.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nAlthough producers of the Folman and Breinersdorfer biopics say they will adhere to the facts as recorded in the Anne Frank archive, the TV project intends to link the story to a fictionalized modern narrative. ZDF says it hopes its project will appeal to younger viewers, noting it has the support of the Anne Frank Foundation, a fund rival that runs the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, and Salomon Korn<\/span><\/strong>, vp at the Central Council of Jews in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n
Like Coca-Cola or Yvez Saint Laurant this isn’t about history, this is about product recognition and placement. Like the Holocaust Industry itself, this is more about generating profit and guilt for political leverage than historical fact.<\/h5>\n
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Contrast the attention paid to Anne Frank’s tragic death with that accorded to the many Palestinian children who are regularly, and in many cases deliberately targeted and murdered, by Israeli forces.<\/h5>\nNo stage plays, films or profitable book deals for them. For most of these deaths are recorded by a few brief lines in the corporate media without the lucrative lamentations. <\/span><\/h5>\nBut that, as they say, is business and in the Holocaust Industry it is all that really counts. <\/span><\/h5>\nRival Anne Frank Film, TV Projects Spark Furor<\/h1>\nScott Roxborough — Hollywood Reporter Jan 2014<\/h2>\n
In 2015, it will have been 70 years since the Nazis murdered Anne Frank<\/strong>, and the anniversary coincides with renewed interest in the Jewish girl and her famed diary chronicling a life in hiding.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nAt least three major biographical projects on Frank’s life are in the works, including two feature films (one live-action, one animated) and a miniseries. But the question of who gets to tell Frank’s story — and how <\/em>that story will be told — has ignited a battle in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nOn Jan. 13, German production firms Moovie and Constantin Film, together with public broadcaster ZDF, unveiled plans for a German-language miniseries based on Frank’s life. The project immediately was condemned by the Anne Frank Fund, the Swiss foundation that holds rights to Frank’s diary and the Frank family archive. The fund accused Constantin and ZDF of violating “all standards of convention, fairness and decency” by going ahead with a Frank project without the fund’s participation and accused the producers of “disrespecting the Frank family, which was largely massacred in the Holocaust.” It wants ZDF and Constantin to cancel their project, set to begin shooting in the summer, and has threatened legal action if they don’t.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n“This is not about money for us,” Yves Kugelmann<\/strong>, member of the board of the Anne Frank Fund, tells THR<\/em>, noting that the fund is a nonprofit with proceeds going to education and charitable projects. “This is about Anne Frank’s legacy. She has become incredibly commercialized — Anne Frank has become a brand, separated from the real person and her identity.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nFrank’s diary, first published by her father, Otto<\/strong>, in 1947 after her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The 1959 biopic The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>, featuring Millie Perkins <\/strong>as Anne, won three Oscars. A 1980 TV movie starring Melissa Gilbert <\/strong>received three Emmy noms, and the 2001 ABC miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story<\/em> won two Emmys.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nThe fund recently gave its blessing to two other Frank projects: an animated take on her life from Waltz With Bashir<\/em> director Ari Folman<\/strong> and a German-language live-action feature to be written by Fred Breinersdorfer<\/strong> (who penned the Oscar-nominated Sophie Scholl: The Final Days<\/em>) and directed by Hans Steinbichler<\/strong> (Winter Journey<\/em>). The fund offered ZDF an opportunity to partner on the German project, says Kugelmann, but the broadcaster said no.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nAlthough producers of the Folman and Breinersdorfer biopics say they will adhere to the facts as recorded in the Anne Frank archive, the TV project intends to link the story to a fictionalized modern narrative. ZDF says it hopes its project will appeal to younger viewers, noting it has the support of the Anne Frank Foundation, a fund rival that runs the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, and Salomon Korn<\/span><\/strong>, vp at the Central Council of Jews in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n
But that, as they say, is business and in the Holocaust Industry it is all that really counts. <\/span><\/h5>\nRival Anne Frank Film, TV Projects Spark Furor<\/h1>\nScott Roxborough — Hollywood Reporter Jan 2014<\/h2>\n
In 2015, it will have been 70 years since the Nazis murdered Anne Frank<\/strong>, and the anniversary coincides with renewed interest in the Jewish girl and her famed diary chronicling a life in hiding.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nAt least three major biographical projects on Frank’s life are in the works, including two feature films (one live-action, one animated) and a miniseries. But the question of who gets to tell Frank’s story — and how <\/em>that story will be told — has ignited a battle in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nOn Jan. 13, German production firms Moovie and Constantin Film, together with public broadcaster ZDF, unveiled plans for a German-language miniseries based on Frank’s life. The project immediately was condemned by the Anne Frank Fund, the Swiss foundation that holds rights to Frank’s diary and the Frank family archive. The fund accused Constantin and ZDF of violating “all standards of convention, fairness and decency” by going ahead with a Frank project without the fund’s participation and accused the producers of “disrespecting the Frank family, which was largely massacred in the Holocaust.” It wants ZDF and Constantin to cancel their project, set to begin shooting in the summer, and has threatened legal action if they don’t.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n“This is not about money for us,” Yves Kugelmann<\/strong>, member of the board of the Anne Frank Fund, tells THR<\/em>, noting that the fund is a nonprofit with proceeds going to education and charitable projects. “This is about Anne Frank’s legacy. She has become incredibly commercialized — Anne Frank has become a brand, separated from the real person and her identity.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nFrank’s diary, first published by her father, Otto<\/strong>, in 1947 after her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The 1959 biopic The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>, featuring Millie Perkins <\/strong>as Anne, won three Oscars. A 1980 TV movie starring Melissa Gilbert <\/strong>received three Emmy noms, and the 2001 ABC miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story<\/em> won two Emmys.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nThe fund recently gave its blessing to two other Frank projects: an animated take on her life from Waltz With Bashir<\/em> director Ari Folman<\/strong> and a German-language live-action feature to be written by Fred Breinersdorfer<\/strong> (who penned the Oscar-nominated Sophie Scholl: The Final Days<\/em>) and directed by Hans Steinbichler<\/strong> (Winter Journey<\/em>). The fund offered ZDF an opportunity to partner on the German project, says Kugelmann, but the broadcaster said no.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nAlthough producers of the Folman and Breinersdorfer biopics say they will adhere to the facts as recorded in the Anne Frank archive, the TV project intends to link the story to a fictionalized modern narrative. ZDF says it hopes its project will appeal to younger viewers, noting it has the support of the Anne Frank Foundation, a fund rival that runs the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, and Salomon Korn<\/span><\/strong>, vp at the Central Council of Jews in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n
Scott Roxborough — Hollywood Reporter Jan 2014<\/h2>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n At least three major biographical projects on Frank’s life are in the works, including two feature films (one live-action, one animated) and a miniseries. But the question of who gets to tell Frank’s story — and how <\/em>that story will be told — has ignited a battle in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n On Jan. 13, German production firms Moovie and Constantin Film, together with public broadcaster ZDF, unveiled plans for a German-language miniseries based on Frank’s life. The project immediately was condemned by the Anne Frank Fund, the Swiss foundation that holds rights to Frank’s diary and the Frank family archive. The fund accused Constantin and ZDF of violating “all standards of convention, fairness and decency” by going ahead with a Frank project without the fund’s participation and accused the producers of “disrespecting the Frank family, which was largely massacred in the Holocaust.” It wants ZDF and Constantin to cancel their project, set to begin shooting in the summer, and has threatened legal action if they don’t.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n “This is not about money for us,” Yves Kugelmann<\/strong>, member of the board of the Anne Frank Fund, tells THR<\/em>, noting that the fund is a nonprofit with proceeds going to education and charitable projects. “This is about Anne Frank’s legacy. She has become incredibly commercialized — Anne Frank has become a brand, separated from the real person and her identity.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Frank’s diary, first published by her father, Otto<\/strong>, in 1947 after her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The 1959 biopic The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>, featuring Millie Perkins <\/strong>as Anne, won three Oscars. A 1980 TV movie starring Melissa Gilbert <\/strong>received three Emmy noms, and the 2001 ABC miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story<\/em> won two Emmys.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The fund recently gave its blessing to two other Frank projects: an animated take on her life from Waltz With Bashir<\/em> director Ari Folman<\/strong> and a German-language live-action feature to be written by Fred Breinersdorfer<\/strong> (who penned the Oscar-nominated Sophie Scholl: The Final Days<\/em>) and directed by Hans Steinbichler<\/strong> (Winter Journey<\/em>). The fund offered ZDF an opportunity to partner on the German project, says Kugelmann, but the broadcaster said no.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Although producers of the Folman and Breinersdorfer biopics say they will adhere to the facts as recorded in the Anne Frank archive, the TV project intends to link the story to a fictionalized modern narrative. ZDF says it hopes its project will appeal to younger viewers, noting it has the support of the Anne Frank Foundation, a fund rival that runs the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, and Salomon Korn<\/span><\/strong>, vp at the Central Council of Jews in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n