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Anne Frank's surviving friends tell their tale

The international rights to a book telling the stories of six classmates of Anne Frank, who unlike her survived the Holocaust, went up for sale on Thursday at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

"It's a very simple and dignified book, which is receiving strong interest," Robert Walsh, the literary agent
who holds the rights, told AFP.

Of the 21 children in Anne Frank's class at the Jewish school she attended in Amsterdam, 11 survived World War II and six are still alive today....
Read entire article at Agence France-Presse