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Alternate titles: “Het Achterhuis”, “The Diary of Anne Frank”
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The Diary of a Young Girl , also known as The Diary of Anne Frank , journal by Anne Frank , a Jewish teenager who chronicled her family’s two years (1942–44) in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II . The book was first published in 1947—two years after Anne’s death in a concentration camp —and later became a classic of war literature.
In 1933 Anne’s family—her father, Otto ; her mother, Edith; and her older sister, Margot—moved to Amsterdam from Germany following the rise of Adolf Hitler . In 1940 the Netherlands was invaded by Germany, which began to enact various anti-Jewish measures, one of which required Anne and her sister to enroll in an all-Jewish school the following year. On June 12, 1942, Anne received a red-and-white plaid diary for her 13th birthday. That day she began writing in the book: “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.” The following month Margot received an order to report to a labour camp. Facing arrest if she did not comply, the family went into hiding on July 6, 1942, moving into a “secret annex” at Otto’s business in Amsterdam, the entrance to which was soon hidden behind a moveable bookcase. The Franks were later joined by four other Jews—Hermann and Auguste van Pels and their son, Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer—and were aided by several friends, including Miep Gies, who brought food and other supplies.
Over the next two years, Anne wrote faithfully in the diary, which she came to consider a friend, addressing many of the entries to “Dear Kitty.” In the journal and later notebooks, Anne recounted the day-to-day life within the annex. The close quarters and sparse supplies led to various arguments among the inhabitants, and the outgoing Anne came to find the conditions stifling. Heightening tensions was the ever-present concern that they would be discovered. However, many entries involve typical adolescent issues—jealousy toward her sister; annoyance with others, especially her mother; and an increasing sexual awareness. Anne wrote candidly about her developing body, and she experienced a brief romance with Peter van Pels. She also discussed her hopes for the future, which included becoming a journalist or a writer. In addition to the diary, Anne penned several short stories and compiled a list of “beautiful sentences” from other works.
After learning of plans to collect diaries and other papers to chronicle people’s wartime experiences, Anne began to rework her journal for possible publication as a novel entitled Het Achterhuis (“The Secret Annex”). She notably created pseudonyms for all the inhabitants, eventually adopting Anne Robin as her alias . Pfeffer—whom Anne had come to dislike as the two often argued over the use of a desk—was named Albert Dussel, the surname of which is German for “idiot.”
Anne’s last diary entry was written on August 1, 1944. Three days later the secret annex was discovered by the Gestapo , which had received a tip from Dutch informers. All of the inhabitants were taken into custody. In September the Frank family arrived at Auschwitz , though Anne and Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen the following month. In 1945 Anne as well as her mother and sister died.
Of the eight people in the secret annex , only Otto Frank survived the war. He subsequently returned to Amsterdam, where Gies gave him various documents she had saved from the annex. Among the papers was Anne’s diary, though some of the notebooks were missing, notably most of those from 1943. To fulfill Anne’s dream of publication, Otto began sorting through her writings. The original red-and-white checkered journal became known as the “A” version, while her revised entries, written on loose sheets of paper, were known as the “B” version. The diary that Otto ultimately compiled was the “C” version, which omitted approximately 30 percent of her entries. Much of the excluded text was sexual-related or concerned Anne’s difficulties with her mother.
After Otto was unable to find a publisher, the work was given to historian Jan Romein, who was so impressed that he wrote about the diary in a front-page article for the newspaper Het Parool in 1946. The resulting attention led to a publishing deal with Contact, and Het Achterhuis was released on June 25, 1947. An immediate best seller in the Netherlands, the work began to appear elsewhere. In 1952 the first American edition was published under the title Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl ; it included an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt . The work was eventually translated into more than 65 languages, and it was later adapted for the stage and screen. All proceeds went to a foundation established in Anne’s honour. In 1995, 15 years after Otto’s death, a new English version of the Diary was published. It contained material that had been previously omitted . In an effort to extend the copyright date—which was to begin expiring in various European countries in 2016—Otto was added as a coauthor in 2015.
Written with insight, humour, and intelligence, the Diary became a classic of war literature, personalizing the Holocaust and offering a moving coming-of-age story. To many, the book was also a source of inspiration and hope. In the midst of such adversity, Anne poignantly wrote, “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.”
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Danielle Fishel recently revealed that after first finding fame on Boy Meets World at age 12, she had a very scary experience with a fan who she thought was a young girl her own age.
On this week's episode of Pod Meets World , the podcast the actor does alongside her former costars Rider Strong and Will Friedle , they addressed some frequently asked questions from their listeners, including one asking which of them used to receive the most fan mail. Strong was the unanimous winner as he played the young heartthrob on the show, Shawn Hunter, the best friend of the main character Cory Matthews, played by Ben Savage . Rider said that by the third or fourth season of the show, however, he became “uncomfortable” with the “overwhelming” amount of fan mail he received. He added that he was also worried he was letting fans down by not being able to respond to them all.
Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence, then shared her own scary experience with a fan, explaining, “When we first started getting fan mail, I also read them all and responded to them all. I got a letter in ’93 from a young girl and she included pictures of herself in it, and she was in gymnastics.” Fishel was also a gymnast before she became an actor. She continued, “She wrote me this handwritten letter that she was a fan, and I wrote her back and she sent me another letter and we started this correspondence back and forth. I felt very close to her, and one of the things she talked about regularly was that both of her parents died when she was young and she lived with her older brother.”
When she received a second letter from the fan, Fishel said the girl had included pictures of her brother who was a “good-looking guy,” but “several years older.” She said the fan would also repeatedly tell her that she didn't know what she'd do without her brother as she didn't have any parents. The fan also included her phone number so that Fishel could call her. She added, “My mom is participating in me writing back. She’s reading all these letters as well and she’s aware of what I’m writing and she’s reading what this girl is writing to me, and my mom is like: ‘[It seems like] you would be friends.’ So I call her and I get her voicemail, but it’s not her. It’s her brother’s voicemail because it’s his house. They live in an apartment together, but her name isn’t anywhere on the voicemail.”
At this point, Strong realized, “She doesn’t exist! She doesn’t exist—some guy pretending to be a girl, you got catfished!” Fishel confirmed that was the case, explaining, “The way it all came out is because I kept calling her, and I left my phone number and she wouldn’t call me back. Then we got a letter from her brother saying that she had died, and my mum woke up in the middle of the night and was like: ‘She never existed, it’s always been him!’” And from there things only escalated, she said, “He started showing up at my school and telling people he was there to pick me up.” Fishel didn't share how that situation came to an end, but Strong labeled the whole thing her “first stalker experience.”
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15 Actresses Who Were Too Young For These Scenes
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In the modern era of film and television, the use of young actors and actresses have to be met with strict guild lines. There are legal limitations in place to protect the safety and well being of the child, making sure that production crews are following labor laws and union rules in order to avoid any exploitation in the working environment. If producers don’t follow these guild lines or the child isn’t part of a union they could be hit with heavy fines.
Yet, even with such strict rules in place, one has to wonder about the morality of the use of child actors and actresses in films that depict violence, horror, and sexual content. There are films that have been made over the last few decades that were so controversial that they were banned in several countries for the use of young girls in roles that were more suited for adults. Which begs the question, why not use actresses that look young to play younger parts, in order to avoid controversy and potential bans? With that in mind, here at The Clever, we have decided to take a look at 15 roles where the actresses were clearly too young for the scenes they were performing in.
Gardens of the Night is a 2008 drama film featuring Ryan Simpkins in one of her earliest roles. The film tells a difficult story of a young girl that was kidnapped at the age of eight years old and forced into prostitution.
There are some tremendously acted scenes in there where she and another victim (a young boy) use their imaginations as a way to escape their horrible reality. Although her character’s scenes are taken over by an older actress later in the film’s story, some of the more harrowing scenes in the film are when she’s a child.
Gardens of the Night was very well-received, and Ryan Simpkins’ career has gone from strength to strength since with roles in Pride and Prejudice , The Road and more recently The House with Will Ferrell.
The 1997 version of Lolita starred a 15-year-old Dominque Swain and Jeremy Irons in an adaptation of the controversial novel of the same name. It was a controversial film about a middle-aged professor falling in love with his own step daughter.
The film does a very good job of highlighting the age difference between Jeremy Iron’s and Dominique Swain’s characters through the performances alone. However, it is that very obvious age gap between the actors that can make the film very uncomfortable viewing indeed. Apparently, most of the controversial scenes were performed by a stunt double for Swain, but it’s the heavily implied nature and dialogue in the film that makes it difficult to watch at times.
The Los Angeles based Thirteen is one of the most controversial dramas ever made. The film starred 15-year-old actresses Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed. The film tells a deeply terrifying coming of age story, which is made more so because it was Nikki Reed herself that co-wrote the semi-autobiographical script for the movie.
Thirteen’s heavy themes of drug and alcohol abuse, teenage sexual activity, and scenes of self-harm were bound to draw controversy, but the critically acclaimed low budget film proved to be a huge hit and launched both young actresses into stardom. Evan Rachel Wood is one of the leading stars of the television series Westworld and Nikki Reed was
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