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Like the Dutch version (not available yet) this features was made for the 11th commemoration of World War II, 4 and 5 May 1956.
This copy on archive record originates from a recording on tape. Details of that recording are not available. A narrator (Emiel van Dulken?) introduces the story chronologically. A womans’s voice reads parts of the diary.
In America the diary became very popular in 1955 due to the theater play ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ by Goodrich and Hackett (October 5, 1955) and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1956. With the movie of 1959 based on this play the Diary evolved “from a European document of World War Il into an Americanized representation of the Holocaust” (see: The American History of Anne Frank’s Diary / Judith E. Doneson. - In: Holocaust and genocide studies : an international journal, ISSN 8756-6583: vol. 2 (1987), afl. 1, pag. 149).
