article_snippet: Elias' and Elias' wife, Gerti, were touring the United States to promote a new book.
article_snippet: her first cousin Buddy Elias's Family" had just been published, based on 14 boxes of letters, postcards, photos and documents that Gerti accidentally discovered in the attic of their house in Basel.
article_snippet: In the course of my two hours with Elias, I learned new things about the young, Jewish girl whose journal is arguably the most famous in the world.
article_snippet: Elias was her first cousin and 4 years older.
article_snippet: On Elias 17th birthday in 1942, " Anne asked Elias how it was going with a girl Elias had met.
article_snippet: But It turned out to be " Anne last to Elias, and Elias preserved It like a relic, as proof of Elias cousin's affection, as something to treasure.
article_snippet: Elias told me Elias had to wait several years for a German language edition before Elias could read a German language edition.
highlights_snippet: A discovery in Elias' attic led to the a book revealing new details about Anne's famiy .
  