Her Connection to Anne Frank
Audrey Hepburn has a connection to Anne Frank in a way that might not be obvious at all. At least not to Hepburn’s fans, who might already know this.
Here’s something that can really alter your concept of time. Hepburn was born only a month before Anne Frank. And Hepburn mentioned how she felt a deep connection to the young girl who was wise before her years.
In 1957, the stress of a day in Switzerland with Elfriede and Otto Frank is visible on Audrey Hepburn’s face. He had asked her to portray his daughter Anne Frank in an upcoming film; she will tell him that, for a variety of reasons, she can’t. (Eva Schloss, photographer; Anne Frank House)
Hepburn has said before that “I was given [The Diary of Anne Frank] in Dutch, in galley form, in 1946 by a friend. It destroyed me. It does this to many people when they first read it, but I was not reading it as a book, as printed pages. This was my life.”