EPISODE-I

(88 min; 2015; English)
Writer: Edward Cotterill

Filmed in Netherlands and London, this two part special made in 2015 commemorates 70 years since Anne Frank’s death. Featuring unique interviews with Anne’s step sister, Eva Schloss and Gillian Walnes, a survivor from Auschwitz who now runs the Anne Frank Trust in the UK; and Ronald Leopold, the Director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. In 1933, the Nazis rose to power. Five years later, in 1938, Eva Schloss remembers the Nazis marching on Austria and then she and her family fleeing and settling in Amsterdam the same year. They found they were in the same residential square as the Franks with their young daughter, Anne. Anne and Eva found a bond from the shared experience of being displaced by the Nazis

25 June 2022 marks the 75th year of the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl