WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As the country prepares for the dedication of Dr.

NEW YORK, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC mourned the passing of Miep Gies, the courageous and principled woman who risked her life by helping Anne Frank and her family avoid capture by the Nazis in Amsterdam for more than two years. Ms. Gies died Monday in Holland at the age of 100.

A new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank is scheduled to premiere in the United States this spring on PBS, the network said. The two-hour film will air as part of the Masterpiece program series April 11, which is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Diary of Anne Frank gives a unique account of life in hiding under Nazi terror in World War II from the perspective of a teenage Jewish girl.

Drama Will Air on Holocaust Remembrance Day on PBS BOSTON, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank will premiere this spring on MASTERPIECE Classic on PBS.

Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright David Mamet is tapped to write and direct a new version of The Diary of Anne Frank, studio officials said. Disney acquired the rights to film the new version of the film that Mamet will produce with Andrew Braunsberg, Variety reported Tuesday. The true story, written by a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis with her family, marks a somber direction for Disney, known for films such as The Little Mermaid, Return to Witch Mountain, and Mary Poppins, and television shows such as Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. The book recounts Frank's family's two years living in secret in the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam during the Holocaust.