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Author interview commemorating the 90th anniversary of Anne Frank's birth

BBC Radio Cumbria with presenter Mike Zeller, 12th June 2019

From a chilling and disturbing prologue, this non-fiction book opens with the untimely and tragic death of a teenaged girl in Auschwitz. However, despite this opening, instead of looking at her death, the book focuses on her life and chronicles the legacy teenager Annelies Marie Frank left behind.
The first two chapters give an abridged idea of life surrounding young Anne Frank and then intricate details about her father Otto. Chapters afterwards detail how her story was opened up to the world. Taking on board how important the contents of this book is, makes it so much harder to give it justice by way of a review.
But this book isn’t only about the girl, it shows how far reaching her legacy goes. All the countries and all the people the words in her diary touched through topics like racism, politics, isolation and murder which surrounded Frank and millions like her. Readers across the globe, through her infamous diary, later The Anne Frank Trust and then the ‘Anne Frank in the World’, travelling exhibition are educated about the Holocaust. Then Frank’s legacy takes them a stage further as people from countries who considered it ‘far and distant’ now understand it as ‘real and present’. These countries are as far afield as the Ukraine, Latin American, Argentina and India.
Famous names have spoken about the topics included in Frank’s legacy because they’ve experienced them too. Nelson Mandela was one speaker and Audrey Hepburn another as she lived in the same country at the same time as Anne Frank yet witnessed the Holocaust from a different angle.
Taking a step back from the theme of the book, however, it is interesting to learn that Jacob, Anne’s paternal grandfather told Otto, his son that Anne’s diary was ‘interesting but who would want to read it?’. This tiny titbit is almost lost in the 300 pages of small text but how thrilled I am that such a fascinating sentence jumped out at me. That sentence alone should empower writers everywhere that they have a voice worth listening too, as did Anne.
A powerful read. It’s probably useful to read The Diary of Anne Frank beforehand or, at very least, afterwards.

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About Manchester, 6th March 2019

Writing with great passion, Perry takes the reader on the path that she covered, describing not just the travels of the exhibition, but the way in which the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and the Trust, together with the establishment of satellites in other countries, became transformed into agents for peace and reconciliation around the world.

Church Times, 25th January 2019 - reviewed by Charles Middleburgh

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Authentic

A beautifully written book sharing gorgeous stories of inspiration to lift our youth tying à timeless premise of peace throughout the world with Anne as the focal point offers readers insight and current themes of action and compassion for every age.

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