New prologue to Anne Frank's tragedy

I suspect I'm like a lot of women of a certain age who were obsessed with Anne Frank's diary as a young girl. When little girls read Anne Frank, it is usually their first look at the evils of mankind. Devouring page after page, bonding with our new little friend, we're horrified by the unwritten end. "She died!" my niece cried after she read the book as a 12-year-old. Now, with the newly discovered correspondence of Anne's father, Otto Frank, a new layer of tragedy has been added. Anne's life, along with those of her mother and sister, might have been spared had U.S. officials granted the family visas. A nearly 80-page dossier of Otto Frank's papers turned up in New York's YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, evidence of a man's desperate ca