A new edition of Anne Frank’s diary was released three years after a close friend of the teen-age Holocaust victim’s father disclosed the existence of five secret pages that Otto Frank had entrusted to him years earlier. In those pages, Anne portrays her mother, Edith, as having “cold eyes,” and agonizes that she cannot talk to her. Anne also laments that her parents are not in love.
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