Anne Frank's life published as graphic biography

A graphic "comic-book" version of the life of Anne Frank during the Second World War was launched last Friday by the Anne Frank House.

The graphic biography uses cartoon drawings as well as text to cover Anne's story making connections between her life in hiding and important historical events during this period.

Spokesperson for the AF House, Annemarie Bekker tells us the desicion to produce a graphic biography came from the success of two fictional comic-style books set during the Holocaust 'The Search' and 'The Family Secret' which are used by schools in the UK and in the Netherlands.

"Not everyone has read Anne Frank's diary," she said. "The mission of the museum is to make the life story of Anne Frank accessible to as large an audience as possible, especially the younger generations.

So this graphic book is a new way of telling the story and attracting new audiences."

The 160-page biography, illustrated using photographs of the family and others that helped them, is the work of writer Sid Jacobson and artist Ernie Colón, a renowned American creative team who produced a similar graphically-illustrated account of what went wrong before and after the terror attacks of 9/11, titled "The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation."

The Anne Frank House Museum says the new biography, which was created in English, has been translated into Dutch and will eventually be translated into German, Italian, French and Spanish.

It will be available to buy in the UK, Summer 2011.

You can see more of the graphic biography on the Anne Frank House's youtube channel

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