Anne Frank Cousin was playing in MM

This guy was playing in MM and he was the Cousin from Anne Frank...

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Buddy Elias: Anne Frank's cousin died

The last direct relative of Anne Frank is dead. Buddy Elias, the murdered by the Nazis girl cousin who died at the age of 89 years. He had made himself a name as an actor - also directed by George Clooney.

Berlin - The Swiss actor Buddy Elias, cousin of murdered by the Nazis, Anne Frank, who died 89 years of age. He died on Monday at his family home in Basel, the resident Anne Frank Fund said on Tuesday night. He was the last living direct relative of Anne Frank.

 Elias played in about 80 film and television productions, including "crime scene", "The Love Boat", "The Black Forest Hospital", "The Magic Mountain" and most recently "Monuments Men - Unusual Heroes" directed by George Clooney.

Elias had always used "for civil society, for dialogue and education against discrimination," it said from the Anne Frank-Fonds. "The ethics of a righteous he committed himself to the legacy and memory of the victims of Nazism, racism and anti-Semitism."

In a presentation of a book about the family Frank 2009 in Frankfurt Elias said, the world famous diary of his cousin had become "the most important thing" in his life. His "playmate" had proved its letter as a great writer.

Elias was born in 1925 in Frankfurt am Main, where he grew up in the early years with the cousins ​​Margot and Anne Frank. 1931 his family emigrated to Switzerland.

 He attended drama school at Basel Conservatory and completed his training in Zurich. Early in his career he played a lot of theater and was from 1947 to 1961 when comedian "Holiday On Ice". With his wife and fellow actor Gerti Elias he had two sons.

Born in Frankfurt in 1929 Anne Frank had fled with her parents from the Nazis to Amsterdam, where they were betrayed and arrested. She died in March 1945 at the age of 15 years in a concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

Her diary in the form of letters to the fictional friend Kitty is one of the most important examples of suffering in the Holocaust. Depicted therein is the hope and fear in an Amsterdam Behind the house, where her family and friends 1942-1944 hid from the Nazi terror. It is considered one of the best known and most widely read books.


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