![]() ![]() Public figures of every kind, from politicians to religious leaders, regularly invoke her name and quote lines from her book. requiems, cantatas, poems and songs composed for her. Youth villages, forests, and foundations have been named after her. Just as public statues, stamps, and commemorative coins bear her image. ![]() As the critic Alvin Rosenfeld has observed, "streets, schools, and youth centers bear her name, Acclaimed as an astonishing story of eight fugitives, an indelible portrait of a gifted girl growing up, and a remarkable document of the Holocaust, it has been-as a book, play, film, school text, art work, ballet, and musical-read, seen, and talked about everywhere, turning Anne Frank from a singular girl into a cultural myth and one of the most familiar, best-loved figures of history. Once accepted, the Diary soon proved all the skeptics wrong. Early on, it was rejected in manuscript by dozens of publishers in Holland, Germany, England, and America, mainly because editors doubted that people so soon after the war would want to buy the private jottings of a Dutch girl who hid with her family for twenty-five months and then died in a Nazi concentration camp. Since it first appeared in Amsterdam in the early summer of 1947, Anne Frank's Diary has become one of the most widely read, powerfully affecting books in the world, but it has also been in startling ways one of the most controversial. ![]()
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