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Anne Frank's diary question

posted 10 years ago by LiberalFilmFan
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Her father, Otto Frank, was the only survivor of the Frank family after WWII. He published her diary in 1947 and both a play and a film was made about this. Otto Frank lived until 1980, 35 years after the end of the war. Does anybody know how much money he made on the diary, the play, and the film adaption? Did he give any money received from those three mediums to charity or to aid fellow survivors?

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[–] briarswt 10 years ago

http://www.annefrank.org/en/Sitewide/Organisation/

http://www.annefrank.ch/work-and-purpose.html

While I'm unsure of the direct amount Otto put into these projects, he was extremely active until his death, doing interviews, etc. They are active today attempting to address issues of discrimination and genocide.

Also, as an example, Otto was very involved in Hannah Goslar's life after the war, as participating in the lives of other people he knew.

Keep in mind, while he almost certainly owned the rights to the diary, I'm less sure of the ownership of rights for the play - even less of the movie. I honestly doubt that Otto received ALL that much from the movie itself, and I don't think he had the same rights with the play as he did with the diary. He may have been consulted - and he was - but he wasn't in charge of the final product, so any funds he received would not be as large as one might think. . . .

With the play, I think he sold the rights to the people who wrote it - I know there was a bit of business with the person Otto originally was working with.

(I'm going off of what I know here, if someone has more info, please provide)

Also, keep in mind, the time for helping those who had survived was in the initial period. By the time Otto was actually making real money from the publication of the diary (the initial printing you're mentioning was to my knowledge small and limited), many of them had at least begun to get some footing (with or without help - either friends or families who had escaoed to other countries) underneath them, and the urgent need to provide shelter, food, etc was (hopefully) done. Otto did what he could to help the people around him, but by setting up these two foundations, he provided organizations which help provide education and other services to work to combat discrimination in all forms.