Charity that guards world-renowned account of a Jewish girl’s life in hiding from the Nazis says copyright – which some argue ends this year – extends from father’s deathA French MP and an academic are set to defy an attempt by the Anne Frank Fonds to preserve control of the copyright on Anne Frank’s diary by publishing online texts of the world famousl second world war account from one of the Holocaust’s most recognisable victims.
Anne Frank wrote her red-and-white checked diary between 12 June 1942 and 1 August 1944,charting the time she spent in hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse until three days before her family was betrayed. She died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, age 15, or in 1945.
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Source: theguardian.com