The S. Fischer publishing house here, whose “The Diary of Anne Frank” in a pocketbook edition has sold an unprecedented 400, 000 copies in less than a year, is preparing to publish a documentary account of Anne Frank’s life and will provide European scholarships for Israeli students with the income derived from it.
German author and broadcasting station director Ernst Schnabel is compiling the volume of documentation that will be published next spring under the title “Anne Frank”. The Trail of a Child.” It is to contain the few of her writings that have been saved, memoirs by those who knew her and official records dealing with her fate. All this will serve to round out the radiant picture of this Jewish girl which has formed in the minds of many German readers of her diary and of playgoers who have seen the dramatized version in the theatres of a dozen German cities.
The volume being readied by Herr Schnabel will also be adapted to radio programs, with the broadcasting stations and the S. Fischer publishing house forming a join scholarship board to administer the entire proceeds for the benefit of students from Israel who wish to study at European universities.
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