as if anne could have gone on writing and describing the arrest from auschwitz and bergen-belsen and he says, i suppose i should have picked it up off the floor but i didn't. what happened was, was anne's diary, as i've said, was very much on the minds of the people in the annex and after much discussion, it was decided that it -- when an emergency happened if they had to leave the annex quickly the diary would be one of the things they took with them. so again, they took it seriously, they knew this was important. they kept the diary and anne's papers in a briefcase that belonged to otto and when the nazis came to arrest them, always an element of what i want to say thievery, pillage in arrests and they knew there were probably some money or jewels somewhere. he instructed his men to look for money and jewels and he found some. he hadn't brought anything with him to carry them with. he said pick up that briefcase and dump it out. they dumped out the briefcase on the floor and filled it with what little money and jewels the franks left. of course the valuable thing, the precious thin

where anne died and he wrote late that standing over the mass graves at bergen-belsen he felt that a voice would arise from among the dead really to tell the story. and when he read the diary of anne frank in french, his wife gave him a copy, the french edition, which a gift she would later come to regret. he became obsessed with anne frank. he began to think this was the voice he had waited to hear. so he wrote otto frank a letter, he became friends with otto frank. he offered to find otto -- help otto find an american publisher for the diary. after otto had found a publisher in a way that i will read to you, meyer levin kind of came back into the scene and said that he was the perfect person to adapt the book for the screen and for the stage. and again, as he, himself, said he wrote a book about this called "the obsession" he became obsessed with the diary to the point at which he almost felt as if he had written the diary. and while he was trying to sell the book to hollywood and to broadway, he was agenting the book, he at the same time got asked for, and received, the assignment