In 2015, it will have been 70 years since the Nazis murdered Anne Frank, and the anniversary coincides with renewed interest in the Jewish girl and her famed diary chronicling a life in hiding.

At least three major biographical projects on Frank's life are in the works, including two feature films (one live-action, one animated) and a miniseries. But the question of who gets to tell Frank's story -- and how that story will be told -- has ignited a battle in Europe.

On Jan. 13, German production firms Moovie and Constantin Film, together with public broadcaster ZDF, unveiled plans for a German-language miniseries based on Frank's life. The project immediately was condemned by the Anne Frank Fund, the Swiss foundation that holds rights to Frank's diary and the Frank family archive. The fund accused Constantin and ZDF of violating "all standards of convention, fairness and decency" by going ahead with a Frank project without the fund's participation and accused the producers of "disrespecting the Frank family, which was largely massacred in the Holocaust." It wants ZDF and Constantin to cancel their project, set to begin shooting in the summer, and has threatened legal action if they don't.

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