The diary of a Jewish girl who became immortal: the diary of Anne Frank. Alberto Angela “browses” it in the second episode of the new season of “Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery”, which will be broadcast on Rai 1 on Thursday September 21 at 9.25 p.m. For the first time, the Rai cameras appear, with Alberto Angela, the house at Merwedeplein 37 in Amsterdam, the place where Anna and her family lived since 1933, the year in which they left their native Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power had to. This was where Anna had grown up and been happy before her life changed forever. The outbreak of the Second World War and the racial laws turned the Frank family’s existence upside down and they were forced to seek refuge in a secret hiding place to escape the violence of the Nazis. And while Anna was in hiding, one of her colleagues was the squadron against the invaders: Audrey Hepburn, who – in a rare interview reproduced by the show – said she was one of the first people to pick up Anna’s original diary and read.
“Ulysses, the Pleasure of Discovery” then enters the famous “Secret House” – where the Franks lived imprisoned along with four other people for more than two years – to discover the dangers of secrecy and meet the benefactors who helped them Frank in these terrible moments. But who had betrayed them? Is there really an Anne Frank “cold case” and will the names of the possible informants ever be known?
Even today, the whole of Amsterdam is talking about Anna: the Prinsengracht, the canal where her house museum is located, the Ndsm, the district where her face stands out in a large mural, the bookstore window that the girl first saw famous diary, the Montessori school she attended as a child.
In the same years, another Jewish girl in Hungary experienced the same problems as Anne Frank. It is the writer Edith Bruck who reports on her terrible experiences in the extermination and concentration camps in half of Europe, including the Bergen-Belsen camp. It is here that Alberto Angela will trace the last days of the lives of Anna and her sister Margot.
Anna would have liked to study and become a famous writer. However, fate decided otherwise. Her mocking and cruel end, a few days after the arrival of the Allies, will go down in history forever and the pages of her diary will become pages for eternity.
Almost eighty years have passed since his death, but it is still impressive to hear some of his songs presented in “Ulisse, the pleasure of discovery” in their original version and without censorship. There is one in particular in which Anna shows her unshakable faith in the future and restores all the beauty of her soul: “I have the feeling that everything will change for the better. Despite everything, I still believe in the deep goodness of “man”.
