The Diary of Anne Frank. The White Rose is a performance about the fortunes of young people whose lives tragically ended during World War Two. The characters of the chamber operas The Diary of Anne Frank by Grigory Frid (1969) and The White Rose by Udo Zimmermann (1986) are real people who never knew each other. “Anne Frank and Sophie Scholl never met. On the contrary, on stage their stories develop in parallel, and the characters become friends, who leave together to die. (Hans-Joachim Frey)