Willy Lindwer (born Wolf Lindwer, 18 March 1946) is a Dutch documentary film producer, director, photographer and author. Biography Willy Lindwer was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. When Lindwer finished his study, he worked for several Dutch Public TV stations. In 1985 he established his own company, AVA-Productions, in which he has made most of his films. He is best known for his films on the Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East, Judaism and Christianity, but has experience in a wide area of documentary filmmaking. In 1988 he won the International Emmy Award for his film The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank. This film contains the testimonies of seven women who were witness to the last months of Anne Frank's life in the Nazi concentration camps, including Hannah Pick-Goslar (Hanneli), a former neighbor of the Franks; Bloeme Evers-Emden, a classmate of Margot; and Janny Brilleslijper who buried her in Bergen-Belsen. On 29 April 2010 he was bestowed with the Dutch order Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of his film-work for the Netherlands. Willy Lindwer has also published several books, some of which are based on the films he has made. His most famous work as an author is also The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, translated into English by Alison Meersschaert. Willy Lindwer has been a documentary filmmaker, producer and scriptwriter since graduating the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam in 1971. For many years he was on the program staff of Dutch Public TV. He founded his company AVA Productions in 1985 in the Netherlands. Currently, he also heads an Israeli corporation, Terra Film Productions in Jerusalem. His companies are dedicated to the development and production of international documentaries and co-productions for television high quality. Willy Lindwer's documentaries are distributed worldwide, including Europe and the US. Willy Lindwer was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1946. His parents fled anti-Semitic Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and settled in Amsterdam. They were among the 10% of Jews in the Netherlands who survived the Holocaust. Driven by a passion for oral history and his interest in exploring human hardships, he has travelled extensively around the globe, producing highly acclaimed series of documentaries about Europe, Africa and the Far East. Willy Lindwer's major international breakthrough came in 1988, when he