New film reveals how Anne Frank’s best friend risked her life to save her
nypost.comNetflix Feb. 1), based on the 1997 book “Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend,“ by Alison Leslie Gold.While Frank did not survive World War II, Pick-Goslar did, and the now 93-year-old, who lives in Jerusalem, still cherishes the memory of her childhood playmate.
In an interview with Scholastic in the late 1990s, Pick-Goslar shared that her friend was always an avid writer — constantly scribbling in her journal — who could also command a room. “Everybody would ask her ‘What are you writing?’ and the answer always was ‘It’s none of your business,’ ” Pick-Goslar said in the interview.
In the film, Pick-Goslar is played hauntingly by Josephine Arendsen. She and Frank (Aiko Beemsterboer) love star-gazing, and in one scene, Hannah points to a constellation and tells her little sister: “That saucepan over there has seven stars.
One of those is me and the biggest one is Anna.” Later, the starry-eyed Frank confides to her friend about her life’s ambitions: wanting to see “the whole wide world” and become an actress or writer — “a very famous one.” In real life, the close confidantes were suddenly torn apart in July 1942.
Read more on nypost.com
