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 to review the book for the front page of the "new york times" book review. now, that would be a kind of definition of a conflict of interest. we don't really think that people -- that the book's agent should be reviewing them for the front page of "the new york times" book review but in fact what happened meyer levin wrote this rave review. by the end of that week, the

so after the war, of course otto frank came back, the only survive of from the attic. when he returned to amsterdam he went and lived with miep and her husband and miep saved after at rest she gone up to the attic and saved what was -- she had saved anne's direry. of course she and everyone else hoped that the girls were still alive. so she put them in her desk drawer. the bravery of these dutch helpers was extraordinary. she knew perfectly well if someone read the diaries they'd be implicated for what they had done to help the franks and the van pels. she put it in her desk drawer. first she locked it up then she became concerned that someone would wonder why anyone would think that a little girl's diary was worth keeping locked up so she unlocked it and kept it there. after otto came back she held on to it. when they finally got the news that anne and margot had been murdered she gave the diary to otto. otto read it, he typed up a few pages, he translated them into german. he sent them to his mother in switzerland and then he began to type up the manuscript. when he

one theory was that the -- a guy supposedly blackmailing otto frank since the beginning of the invasion for an anti-nazi remark he made, but what was interesting to me was that otto essentially had, didn't have a huge investment in finding out who did it. that wasn't -- his focus was not ever revenge, retribution and so forth. his focus was all about the future, really, and using the material to try and make a better future. >> what was it like to live with this -- live with anne frank for a couple of years? did you ever feel like -- >> no. i was -- it was very painful. i have to say, it wasn't -- i mean, i enjoyed reading the diary, and i was -- excited by many of the things that i found out, and each new discovery i made was thrilling to me, but the story is the story. i mean, what happened to her is what happened to her. so as i say in the book, i would make a kind of pact with myself, you know, i would go for a week, ten day, maybe, without thinking, here was this amazing girl, this genius who was murdered for no reason at all in bergen besson and died in, typhus and, horribly, and