Anne Frank adaptation told through cat’s eyes

PASSOVER 5779 SECTION C PAGE 13 of the oldest pieces of Holocaust literature, and perhaps one of the most powerful and enduring, is a diary written by a teenage girl. Anne Frank’s documentation of the trials and tribulations of a teenage girl in the terrifying situation of hiding from the Nazis has resonated in a way the teen perhaps dreamed of, but who knows? The diary has been translated into more than 60 languages, transformed into films and plays and, somewhat unusually, into books. This past year has seen two adaptations, both curiously aimed at the youth market. One is the graphic adaptation by Ari Folman and David Polonsky, which transformed Anne’s story into the visual (IJN review, Dec. 28, 2018). The result is a […]