“She was 11 when deported and went through four concentration camps, from Risiera di San Sabba to Bergen-Belsen. When the Soviet army arrived in Auschwitz in 1945, only 650 children of various nationalities were alive, including Andra and Tatiana.”Īrianna Szörenyi also lived in Croatia. “First taken to Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste, they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Andra and Tatiana Bucci are Croatian sisters, who were four and six when they were arrested with their mother and a cousin. Several of them were Anne’s age when they were sent to concentration camps.Īish.com provides an outline of the women’s backgrounds. That narration is intertwined with the perspectives of five Holocaust survivors-Arianna Szörenyi, Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard, Helga Weiss and sisters Andra and Tatiana Bucci. Anne’s tragedy is brought to life through the heartfelt reading of excerpts of her diary by actress Helen Mirren. The new documentary has chilling and moving elements. To date The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into more than 60 languages and has sold over 30 million copies. When the war ended, Anne’s father Otto, the only surviving member of the family, returned to Amsterdam where he was given his daughter’s diary, which was found after the family was taken away. Later that year, she, her sister and mother were taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Lower Saxony, where Anne died in early 1945, probably of typhoid, at the age of 15. On her 13th birthday, Anne and her family went underground, and during those two years in hiding, Anne wrote, with a sharp eye and tender soul, about life in the “Secret Annex.” When the Minister of Education of the exiled Dutch government in England made a radio appeal to listeners to hold on to war diaries and documents, Anne started rewriting her diary, but before she was finished, she and the others in the annex were discovered and arrested by the Gestapo on August 4, 1944.Īnne, together with her parents and sister, was transported by train to Auschwitz. Two years later, Anne’s father started furnishing a secret place in the annex of his business premises. By 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the country. When Anne was four, the family fled the Nazis, moving to the Netherlands. Anne Frank was born in 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany to a Jewish family.
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