Vodnoy, a former professor of strings and music history at Northern State University in South Dakota who co-founded the ...

Anne Frank’s diary was written, addressed to the fictional character ‘Kitty’, as the young Jewish child hid in an attic in her father’s factory from the Nazis occupying Amsterdam.

For Anne Frank, a young Jewish victim of Nazism ... eventually settling on a single character, Kitty, as the recipient of her written confidence. A greater goad to Anne’s creative productivity ...

Kitty, Anne Frank's imaginary friend to whom the famous diary was dedicated, comes to life in the modern day in the Amsterdam house where Anne had taken refuge with her family.