Kitty’s support of the refugees as they struggle to adjust in a strange, new world is one of the overriding themes of the film, as Folman connects Anne Frank’s messages of hope in her diary ...

Backed by Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House museum, “Liebe Kitty” is the revised, or manuscript version of Anne’s original diary.

A video shows the text underneath two taped off pages from Anne Frank's diary during a press conference at The Anne Frank Foundation's office in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Tue., May 15, 2018. AP ...

"Kitty, the imaginary friend addressed in Anne Frank's diaries, jumps off the page as a pen-and-ink version of a flesh-and-blood girl in Ari Folman's vividly rendered [film]," wrote the Hollywood ...

In the film, Variety reported, Kitty wakes up in modern times, and imagines that if she’s alive, Anne must be as well, and so she sets out to find her.

When Kitty finally returns to a swirl of ink, it’s implied she lives on metaphorically whenever people apply the lessons of Anne Frank’s life to contemporary situations.

The new edition, entitled "Liebe Kitty" (Dear Kitty), is an incomplete manuscript "of a girl who wanted to become an author", according to Amsterdam's Anne Frank House museum.

ANNE FRANK’S DIARY: THE GRAPHIC ADAPTATION Adapted by Ari Folman Illustrated by David Polonsky Pantheon, 160 pages, $24.95 When I think of what Anne Frank looked like, I think of her eyes.

AMSTERDAM — Researchers using digital technology deciphered the writing on two pages of Anne Frank's diary that she had pasted over with brown masking paper, discovering four naughty jokes and a ...

A video shows the text underneath two taped off pages from Anne Frank’s diary during a press conference at The Anne Frank Foundation’s office in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, May 15, 2018.