Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889 - August 19, 1980) was a German businessman, and the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. In the 1950s and the 1960s, he established European charities in his daughter's name and founded the trust which preserved his family's wartime hiding place, the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam. The ...

Otto Frank was the father of the most famous girl of the 20th Century. It was he who found her diaries after her death and his determination to see them published around the world. This is the first time his story has been told.Born into a prosperous Jewish family in Berlin, his life was a portrait in miniature of the century: decorated after the Battle of the Somme, forced to flee Germany in the 1930s, betrayed and imprisoned by the Nazis in the Holocaust and finally gaining recog...

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Anne Frank muore a Bergen-Belsen nel marzo del 1945 pochi mesi dopo essere stata deportata insieme alla sua famiglia. Aveva trascorso i due anni precedenti nascosta nell'"alloggio segreto", dedicando parte delle sue lunghe giornate alla stesura del suo diario, un documento unico, commovente e sincero. Ma Anne, che sognava di diventare una scrittrice, non si limitò ad affidare al diario la cronaca quotidiana della sua vita in clandestinità. Nonostante l'esistenza impossibile che la guerra e...

Quando Anne inizia il suo diario, nel giugno del 1942, ha appena compiuto tredici anni. Poche pagine, e all'immagine della scuola, dei compagni e di amori piú o meno ideali, si sostituisce la storia della lunga clandestinità. Obbedendo a una sicura vocazione di scrittrice, Anne ha voluto e saputo lasciare testimonianza di sé e dell'esperienza degli altri clandestini. La prima edizione del Diario subí tuttavia non pochi tagli, ritocchi, variazioni. Il testo, restituito alla sua integrità or...

Die 1914 im Original veröffentliche Reihe "Deutschland unter Kaiser Wilhelm II. " gehört zu den umfangreichsten historischen Abhandlungen über die Entwicklung und den Aufbau des Kaiserreiches. Hier in einer Wiederauflage von insgesamt acht Bänden vorliegend, umfasst das Werk auf fast 2000 Gesamtseiten Beiträge der wichtigsten Koryphäen ihrer Zeit zu relevanten Themen. Dies ist Band 4, der unter anderem die zeitgenössische Philosophie, Geschichtsforschung, Philologie, Mathematik und die Nat...

"A meticulous account of the fascinating, convoluted and sometimes ugly publishing history of the world's most famous diary. Karen Bartlett's book is all the more relevant at a time of untruths and fake news." – Caroline Moorehead, bestselling author of Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France***When Otto Frank unwrapped his daughter's diary with trembling hands and began to read the first pages, he discovered a side to Anne that was a...

'Dit is het testament van je dochter,' zei Miep Gies toen ze Otto Frank de door haar bewaarde papieren uit het achterhuis gaf. Gesterkt door de positieve reacties uit zijn omgeving koos Frank ervoor om deze belangrijke erfenis te delen. 75 jaar geleden, 25 juni 1947, verscheen Het Achterhuis. Frank vond in het dagboek een nieuwe reden van bestaan en het lukte hem om miljoenen mensen kennis te laten maken met de nalatenschap van Anne Frank. 'Het was zijn redding', zei een van zijn vrienden....

Curl up by the fire this Christmas with the masters of cosy and seasonal crime fiction – the perfect stocking-filler for fans of Agatha Christie and the British Library Crime Classics!A collection of Christmas-themed mysteries, written by some of the greatest Golden Age authors, including Ellery Queen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, John D. MacDonald, and John Dickson Carr, as well as such undiscovered writers as Norvell Page, Meredith Nicholson, and Pat F...

In this collection of Golden Age mysteries, crime strikes in the world of books...'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian' – Otto PenzlerOf crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is as intriguing as the ‘bibliomystery’: stories that involve crimes set in the world of books.This volume collects the finest of such stories. From the murder...

Llenando un vacío crucial en la bibliografía clínica, este libro ofrece una visión contemporánea del narcisismo patológico y presenta un enfoque innovador de tratamiento. Los destacados autores exploran las dificultades especiales para tratar a pacientes -ya sea con rasgos narcisistas o con un trastorno narcisista de la personalidad plenamente desarrollado- que se retraen de la realidad para adentrarse en una grandiosidad narcisista, poniendo con ello en peligro sus vidas y sus relaciones ...

A field-tested guide to the management and finance of church congregations, revised for a new generation.Clergy are generally equipped to preach and provide spiritual care. But when it comes to budgets, insurance, fire safety, and church management many find themselves at a loss. The Church Administration and Finance Manual is the classic guide to running a church, written to answer key questions for clergy and lay leaders.Not simply a theoretical ...