A New York Court awarded $50,000 to an American novelist Meyer Levin, to be paid By Otto Frank the father of Anne Frank as an honorarium for Levin’s novel “Diary of a Young Girl” also known as “Diary of Anne Frank”. 
Mr. Otto Frank, had promised to pay to a Jewish novelist Meyer Levin not less than $50,000 because he had used the literary creation of author Levin in toto, and represented it to his publisher and the public as his late daughter’s original work.
Jewish writer Meyer Levin had approached the Court for his claim for damages on account of writing the “Diary of Anne Frank”, He had also won his case from the Jury, He would not have withdrawn his Appeal had he not been paid out of court by Otto Frank, to avoid media publicity.
So Otto Frank did pay Jewish writer Meyer Levin $ 50,000 dollars or thereabout for writing ‘Diary of Anne Frank’.
Complete details of the case are available in case titled Meyer Levin Vs Otto Frank, File number 2241-1956 in the New York County Clerk’s office.
Complete details of the case are available in case titled Meyer Levin Vs Otto Frank, File number 2241-1956 in the New York County Clerk’s office.
In 1980, Otto Frank sued two Germans, Ernst Romer and Edgar Geiss, for distributing literature denouncing the diary as a forgery.
The trial produced a study by official German state forensic bureau, the Bundes Kriminal Amt forensically examined the manuscript, which at that point in time consisted of three hardbound notebooks and 324 loose pages bound in a fourth notebook, with special forensic equipment.
In the end, BKA clearly determined that none of the diary handwriting matched known examples of Anne’s handwriting. The bureau determined that everything in the diary was written by the same person. The person that wrote the diaries had used a ballpoint pen throughout.
Unfortunately for Herr Frank, the ballpoint pen was not available until October 1945 whereas Anne was known to have died of typhus in 1944.
The German magazine, Der Spiegel, published an account of this report stating that;-
(a) some editing postdated 1951;
(b) Experts had held that all the writing in the journal was by the same hand; and thus –
(c) the entire diary was a postwar fake.
(a) some editing postdated 1951;
(b) Experts had held that all the writing in the journal was by the same hand; and thus –
(c) the entire diary was a postwar fake.
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