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{{quote|For the past two years we have lived in fear. Now we can live in hope.|'''Otto Frank'''}}
{{quote|We try and hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope, everything is being destroyed.|'''Anne Frank'''}}
The 1955 Pulitzer-Prize winner for Drama, '''''The Diary of Anne Frank''''' was Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's dramatization of Holocaust victim Anne Frank's diary (usually referred to as ''[[
It chronicles Frank's time as a Jewish refugee in Amsterdam hiding from Nazi forces with her family. Throughout her stay in a businessman's house, Frank wrote her observations of the world around her in her diary. That is, until, the Nazis finally find her.
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The play and [[The Movie]].
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Again, the play and [[The Movie]].
* [[Artistic License]]: The play and [[The Movie]] take some liberties with the source material. Certain details, such as Dussel's allergy to cats (and the resulting conflict with Peter, who has a greater attachment to the cat than in the diary), the Hanukkah celebration, the fight over food (and threats to evict the Van Daans) immediately before the announcement of D-Day, and the sequence of events documenting precisely how the Annex residents were caught, are nowhere found in the diary itself. Certain scenes, such as the Annex residents' learning about D-Day and Anne's first kiss, play out very differently between the diary and the two adaptations. Also, certain statements from the diary, in both [[The Movie]] and the play, are taken out of context, to the extent that the changes alter, even contradict, the statements' original meanings.
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: At the start of the [[
* [[Bi the Way]]: The first several rounds of publishing excluded excerpts from when Anne admits to being excited by the female body, even going so much as to reveal she kissed a friend and asked to feel her breasts. The [[Squick]] factor of this being a young girl not even in her teens is a justified explanation. The sections had been [[Bowdlerise
* [[Bookcase Passage]]
* [[Daddy's Girl]]
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* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Several of the printings of the diary, as well as the play and [[The Movie]]. Face it, there was no way some of the material, particularly the sexual discussions, would have made it past the [[Moral Guardians]].
* [[Rousseau Was Right]]: Lampshaded:
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* [[Sole Survivor]]: Out of the people in the hiding spot, only Otto Frank survived the concentration camps.
* [[World War II]]
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