''Laatste Zeven Maanden van Anne Frank'' (English title: ''The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank'') is a 1988

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television documentary directed by

Willy Lindwer Willy Lindwer (born Wolf Lindwer, 18 March 1946) is a Dutch documentary film producer, director, photographer and author. Biography Willy Lindwer was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy ...

about the last seven months in the life of

diarist A diary is a written or audiovisual record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been handwritten but are now also often digital. A personal d ...

Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Fra ...

. Seven different women, who were fellow prisoners of Anne Frank in the

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, and the Auschwitz and

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, gave interviews about Anne's last months in this documentary. Among them are

Hannah Pick-Goslar Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Goslar (born Hanna Elisabeth Goslar; 12 November 1928 – 28 October 2022) was a German-born Israeli nurse and Holocaust survivor best known for her close friendship with writer Anne Frank. The girls attended the 6th Monte ...

("Hanneli"), Anne's childhood friend and fellow prisoner in Bergen-Belsen, and

Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper Marianne "Janny" (or "Jannie") Brandes-Brilleslijper (24 October 1916 – 15 August 2003) was a Dutch Holocaust survivor and one of the last people to see Anne Frank. She is the sister of singer Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 1912&n ...

, Anne's fellow prisoner in all three camps. Both women, who were cell mates with Anne and Anne's sister

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, are believed to be among the last known people to have seen Anne alive. The documentary won an International Emmy Award. The interviews appeared as a book in 1992: ''The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank'' by

wanted to film this book in Anne Frank's house. The director of the

Anne Frank House The Anne Frank House ( nl, Anne Frank Huis) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterda ...

refused to let him film it. He told Lindwer that Anne Frank was a symbol and symbols should not be shown dying in concentration camps.

Interviewees

Bloeme Evers-Emden Bloeme Evers-Emden (; 26 July 1926 – 18 July 2016) was a Dutch Jewish lecturer and child psychologist who extensively researched the phenomenon of "hidden children" during World War II and wrote four books on the subject in the 1990s. Her i ...

* Anita Mayer-Roos * * Lenie de Jong-van Naarden * Rachel van Amerongen-Frankfoorder * Hanneli Pick-Goslar

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* * - Web page edited by the filmmaker/author, dedicated to Anne Frank materials Dutch documentary television films 1988 television films 1988 films Documentary films about Anne Frank 1988 documentary films {{documentary-tv-film-stub

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