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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 7 July 2018
Anne Frank's family tried to escape to US, hit roadblocks

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER annexed Austria and part
Associated Press of Czechoslovakia into the
BERLIN (AP) — Research Third Reich. On Nov. 9 that
suggests the family of Anne year, Nazis terrorized Jews
Frank, the world famous throughout the country in
Jewish diarist who died in the violent Kristallnacht po-
the Holocaust, attempted groms, also known as the
to immigrate to the United "Night of Broken Glass."
States and later also to Otto Frank wrote in his 1941
Cuba, but their efforts were letter to his friend Nathan
thwarted by America's re- Straus that he had filed an
strictive immigration policy application at the Ameri-
and the outbreak of World can consulate in the Dutch
War II. port city of Rotterdam in
The Anne Frank House in 1938.
Amsterdam and the U.S. However, he also men-
Holocaust Memorial Muse- tioned that "all the pa-
um said Friday that docu- pers have been destroyed
ments indicate Anne's fa- there," because on May 14,
ther Otto tried twice to col- 1940, while the Frank family
lect the papers needed to was still on a waiting list for
obtain visas for the United possible visas, the Ameri-
States. He later also ap- can consulate was devas-
pears to have applied for a In this Monday, June 14, 1971 photo Dr. Otto Frank holds the Golden Pan award, given for the sale tated during German bom-
visa to Cuba. of one million copies of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' in London, Great Britain. bardment and all papers
However, the Frank family's Associated Press were lost.
escape efforts were all in Even without the loss of
vain. Eventually they went "I am forced to look out for Otto Frank wrote in English ily out of the Netherlands their visa application, it
into hiding from the Nazis in emigration and as far as to a friend in the United to the U.S. likely started as would have been difficult
Amsterdam on July 6, 1942 I can see USA is the only States in 1941. early as 1938 — a turbulent for the Franks to immigrate
— exactly 76 years ago. country we could go to," His efforts to get the fam- year in which Nazi Germany to the United States. q

Scarlett Johansson's plans to play trans man spurs backlash

By JAKE COYLE and steal our narrative and
Associated Press our opportunity but you pat
NEW YORK (AP) — Scarlett yourselves on the back with
Johansson's plans to por- trophies and accolades for
tray a transgender man mimicking what we have
have sparked a backlash lived," wrote Lysette.
from many who object to Jamie Clayton, a trans-
cisgender actors playing gender actress who stars in
trans roles. Netflix's "Sense8," dared Jo-
Earlier this week, Johans- hansson and the filmmak-
son was announced to star ers to cast trans actors in
in "Rub & Tug," a film about non-trans parts.
prostitution ring leader "Actors who are trans nev-
Dante "Tex" Gill, who was er even get to audition for
born Lois Jean Gill but iden- anything other than roles of
tified as a man. Since the trans characters," Clayton
announcement, transgen- said in an all-caps tweet.
der actors and advocates "That's the real issue. We
have criticized the produc- can't even get in the room."
tion for not casting a trans Representatives for Johans-
actor in the role. son didn't respond to mes-
Johansson, who's also pro- sages for comment.
ducing the film, further in- Johansson has come under
flamed critics with a state- fire before for playing a role
ment to the website Bustle, that prompted some out-
via her representative, In this April 23, 2018 file photo, Scarlett Johansson arrives at the world premiere of "Avengers: rage. In last year's "Ghost
that said criticism "can be Infinity War" in Los Angeles. in the Shell," she played the
directed to Jeffrey Tam- Associated Press robot character known in
bor, Jared Leto, and Felic- Masamune Shirow's original
ity Huffman's reps for com- his performance on "Trans- mer personal assistant, Van Lysette was among those manga series as Motoko
ment." parent," though he depart- Barnes. Leto won an Os- who disapproved of Jo- Kusanagi.
Tambor, Leto and Huffman ed the show last year after car for his performance in hansson's intentions. On Critics called it another ex-
are all cisgender actors he was accused of sexual 2013's "Dallas Buyers Club." Twitter, she wrote: "So you ample of Hollywood's long
who received acclaim for misconduct by two trans- Huffman was nominated can continue to play us but history of whitewashing
playing trans characters. gender women: actress for an Oscar for the 2005 we can't play y'all?" Asian characters with Cau-
Tambor won two Emmys for Trace Lysette and his for- film "Transamerica." "Not only do you play us casian actors.q