Anne Frank nomination as honorary citizen Frankfurt

Anne Frank has been nominated as an honorary citizen of Frankfurt, the German town where she was born on June 12, 1929.

Normally, only living people are nominated, but Becker thinks that should be made an exception for Anne Frank. Frankfurt, according to the official complicit in the suffering and death of the Jewish girl.

Anne fled in 1934 to Amsterdam, where she went to live at Merwedeplein. From July 1942 she went into hiding with her father Otto, mother Edith and her sister Margot into a back house on the Prinsengracht. Beginning in August 1944 after the family betrayal was arrested by the Germans. Anne died probably in February 1945 of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen. Her bequeathed diary made her world famous.

At the Berlinale in Berlin on Tuesday went to the German film Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank premiered.