My Best Friend Anne Frank

I watched the movie “My best friend Anne Frank” last night, I know it did get quite a bit of criticism when it was first released, I don’t really know why though, of course there was some fictionalisation. However in essence the main story is true. But this is not going to be a movie review.

The story is from the point of view Hannah (Hanneli) Goslar, who like Anne had fled Germany with her family when the Nazis came to power. Anne Frank was her best friend.

What I liked about the story ,it didn’t show Anne as some mythical creature, it showed Anne for who and what she was, a playful young teenage girl. Both girls had interest in fashion, parties and boys. So sad to think that both their lives were interrupted.

In June 1943, Hannah, her father, her maternal grandparents, along with Hannah’s younger sister Gabrielle…