Jewish traditions. The Hacketts replied that their script did not mirror reality and that to inform a non-Jewish audience of the significance of Judaic ceremonies, one character had to be ignorant of them. Pfeffer pointed out that her husband was a devout Jew and master of Hebrew, but the character of "Mr. Dussel" remained unchanged. Embittered by the unrepresentative portrait, Charlotte Pfeffer severed her links with Otto Frank and Miep Gies as Anne Frank's fame grew in the decades after the war, and refused interview requests. Werner Pfeffer remained in touch with Otto Frank and had the opportunity to meet Gies shortly before dying of cancer in 1995, to thank her for her attempt to save his father's life. The meeting was recorded for the documentary film Anne Frank Remembered. A collection of letters written by Fritz Pfeffer to his wife and a box of photographs of him were rescued, with some of Charlotte Pfeffer's possessions, from an Amsterdam flea market after her death in 1985. In her memoir, Miep Gies writes that "The photos of Dr. Pfeffer reveal the handsome, cultured man I knew, rather than the buffoon that Anne so unkindly described in her diary." Ed Wynn's portrayal of Pfeffer (as Dussel) in George Stevens' film The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) earned him a nomination for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor. See also Betrayal of Anne Frank People associated with Anne Frank References Sources and further reading The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, Anne Frank, translated by Susan Massotty, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, Anchor Books, 1995. The Roommate of Anne Frank, Nanda van der Zee, Aspekt, 2003. The Footsteps of Anne Frank, Ernst Schnabel, Pan, 1959. Anne Frank Remembered, Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold, Simon and Schuster, 1988. Anne Frank: Reflections on her Life and Legacy, edited by Hyman A. Enzer and Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer, University of Illinois, 2000. Roses from the Earth, Carol Ann Lee, Penguin, 1999. Anne Frank - The Biography, Melissa Müller, Metropolitan Books, 1998. External links Profile of Fritz Pfeffer with links to photographs Biography of Fritz Pfeffer by The Anne Frank House Article about the relationship between Anne Frank and Fritz Pfeffer 1889 births 1944 deaths German Army personnel of World War I German dentists People from Giessen Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands People who died in Neuengamme concentration camp