Ondrej Šoth, Zuzana Mistríková: DIARY OF ANNA FRANKOVA

BOARDS 2017 IN THE CATEGORY OF OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF DANCE THEATRE IN THE 2016/2017 SEASON

The true story of a Jewish family who hid in Amsterdam during World War II but fell victim to Nazi murder just before the end of the war. Life during the hiding was captured by Anne Frank in her diary. The ballet will be performed for the first time on the stage of the reconstructed Small Stage of the ŠD. The project has an experimental character and is intended for a more demanding audience.

As a 13-year-old, Annelies Marie Frank hid with her family during the Second World War, for two years in the back of a building in Amsterdam. Just before the end of the war, however, she fell victim to the Nazi regime. Anna wrote down the events from 12 June 1942 to 1 August 1944, recording everything that happened around her, even individual days in hiding. When she heard an appeal on Orange Radio in March 1944 for citizens to provide their notes to the collection for historical purposes, she began transcribing her notes into book form. She managed to transcribe a substantial portion of the original letters. The notes end with the text Anna recorded just days before she and her family were found by soldiers and taken to a concentration camp. However, the notes were preserved, and after the war Anna's father, Otto Frank, who was the only survivor of the war, was instrumental in getting them published in book form.

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