Above is the only film footage of Anne Frank, the inspirational 13-year-old diarist who hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic before finally dying in a concentration camp. The brief clip shows Frank, then 12, looking out of her window during her neighbor's wedding on July 22, 1941, one year before her family went into hiding. The film was made available on a YouTube channel just launched by the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. From CNN:
Other videos show the chestnut tree that Anne saw every day from her window and the church bells that rang while she was in hiding. She mentions both of these in her diary."Anne Frank has channel on YouTube" (CNN)
Otto Frank can be heard on the site, talking about his daughter's diaries in a video excerpt made in the late 1960s before his death. He said she talked about and criticized many things, but he learned her real feelings only by reading her diary.
"I was very much surprised about deep thoughts Anne had, a seriousness, especially her self-criticism. It was quite a different Anne I had known as my daughter. She never really showed this kind of inner feeling," Otto Frank said.
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It's awesome how something like a glance in a home movie can show you the face of someone or something that touched millions.
Makes you wonder what else is out there....
What a beautiful moving snapshot of the era, before everything turned dark and ugly. The last vestiges of that kind of innocent happiness.
Apparently the tree she used to look at from her diary is still there and they're going to take a sapling from it and plant it in Seattle's Volunteer Park.
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/10/17/breaking_news/doc4ada3fc103049692049290.txt
"...before finally dying in a concentration camp."
Jesus! Spoiler alert!
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You might find in the future that coherence helps your position.
its probably a fake
that would go against the nature of his username :p
"Karl Josef Silberbauer, the Austrian Gestapo agent who arrested Frank and her family, ended his days in comfort. Tracked down 20 years later by Simon Wiesenthal in Vienna, where he’d settled into postwar obscurity as a police officer, Silberbauer was cleared of criminal charges, partly on the basis of Otto Frank’s curious testimony that the Gestapo man had “done his duty and acted correctly.”"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/books/review/Hammer-t.html
Not so curious when one considers the other things Otto Frank has been accused of, including writing much of his daughter's famous diary. I'm not saying it's outside the realm of possibilities, but in light of the subject matter it seems a moot point. Either he did, or he didn't. Whatever the case, the book has been inspirational to millions. And regardless of how comfortably Anne Frank's captor died, he will forever be remembered as her captor.
Anne Frank did write her own diary, as has been exhaustively documented.
This footage was in the excellent documentary "Anne Frank Remembered" narrated by Kenneth Branagh.
@infinitemptythoughts: You're disgusting. Congrats on injecting totally unrelated hate and vitriol into this post.
yes, the snippet is quite wonderful - and it's been accessible directly from the Anne Frank museum site - www.annefrank.org - for like...over a year now?? I used it last year with my 8th grade English class when we did our Anne Frank unit. Because like, you see...YouTube isn't actually the origin of anything. (shocking, I now!)
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infinitemptythoughts,
I've suspended your account for twice trying to hijack this thread to your pet cause. Feel free to contact me to discuss it.