Rare Anne Frank poem fetches €140,000 at Dutch auction
Eight-line ode to friend penned in March 1942 bought by unnamed online bidder for more than four times reserve price
HAARLEM, Netherlands — A very rare handwritten poem by Jewish diarist Anne Frank was sold for €140,000 (NIS 575,000; $150,000) to an unnamed online bidder Wednesday, fetching more than four times its reserve price.
Auctioneers closed the sale after just two minutes of tense bidding at the Bubb Kuyper auction house in the western Dutch city of Haarlem. -- More...
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