ANNE FRANK'S HIDEOUT RESTORED FOR MOVIE

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, February 19, 1993                   TAG: 9302190101
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS                                LENGTH: Short
ANNE FRANK'S HIDEOUT RESTORED FOR MOVIE
The secret annex where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis during World War II has been restored for a documentary film on the teen-age diarist's life.
It is the first time the four-room annex has been refurbished to appear as it did during the two years recorded in Frank's famous diary, K.P.D. Broekhuizen, the deputy director of the Anne Frank Foundation, said Thursday.
The small wing at the rear of a brick house has been maintained as a museum by the foundation and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
Filming is scheduled to begin next week on the $136,000 documentary, Broekhuizen said. The film will portray a modern-day boy reading Frank's diary while visiting the annex where she, her parents, her sister and four other Jews hid, Broekhuizen said.
It will include superimposed images of the Frank family from photos and "as little play acting as possible," said Broekhuizen.
To restore the annex, researchers used descriptions from the diary as well as records kept by Frank's father, Otto, and the recollections of Miep Gies, a non-Jewish friend who smuggled food to the family.
The Franks were betrayed in fall 1944 and deported to Nazi extermination camps.
Anne and her sister, Margot, are believed to have died in late February or early March 1945 in Bergen-Belsen, just weeks before it was liberated by the Allies. Her father was the only survivor.
- Associated Press

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB