Anne Frank Footage Posted on YouTube

(AP)  The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam has begun airing the only known video of the teenage diarist on a channel dedicated to her on YouTube.

The channel also features clips of others, including her late father Otto and Nelson Mandela, talking about Anne, museum spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker said Friday.

"It is really a great platform to show all the different kinds of films and documentaries about Anne Frank," Bekker added.

The channel shows footage taken during a neighbor's wedding on July 22, 1941. It briefly shows Anne before she and her family were forced into hiding to avoid the Nazis during their World War II occupation of the Netherlands.

The fleeting moving images of Anne already are on display at the museum and on its Web site in slightly shorter versions.

Bekker said the YouTube channel also has a video about the making of a 3-D virtual version of the secret annex concealed in an Amsterdam canalside house where the Frank family hid for 25 months until they were betrayed and deported.

The virtual version of the secret annex is due to be formally launched next year to help mark the 50th anniversary of the museum's founding.

Anne died aged 15 of typhus in the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, seven months after her arrest and just two weeks before British and Canadian troops liberated the camp. Her posthumously published diary has made her a symbol of all Jews killed in World War II.

Watch the video here:

[DrForbin]

Manage to see the "Diary of Anne Franks play" in New York City right after work, the play was a great rendition of the book. On a side note, I used to work with some crazed Neo-Nazi's like characters at UPS.
On Fridays nights, after work the managers used to try to get all of the employees to try to hang out together for a while, my only guess to as way, was probably to build team camaraderie. Most were total Holocaust deniers.
They would always try to refute existence of Ann Franks and even if the holocaust ever happened. I wish I could show them this video. Defiantly made my night.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire

[blackdiamond1946]

I am a Black woman age 62 who grew up fascinated by the story of Anne Frank and her family. Saw the movie when it first came out in the theaters as a teenager. I remember crying with pain not understanding the whole atrocity. Read the book in High School and cried more. Became much interested in learning all about WWII and Germany and it's allies. I'm a vet of the Viet Nam War. I realize evil is everywhere and it hurts when we as individuals per se can't do anything. I just hope this story isn't a fraud of a young girl's story that epitomizes what's happening all over.

[erasmus111]

by liliapoxford October 4, 2009 1:37 PM EDT
I have written a reply that answers in more detail, but it would take an even longer list in order to reply, and there is a word limit, so I would need to edit it.


If you look at some of these posts, you'll realize that there couldn't possibly be a word limit. There USED to be a limit of 1500 words but there isn't anymore. And when there was, it was stated above the comment box.

[liliapoxford]

Toolmangler:

You state a very long list of 'facts' - which are in fact totally and utterly biased and could be claimed to be total and utter nonsense.

Just because you make a long list with numbers does not mean that anything that you have stated has anything to do with reality.

Please be advised anyone who has read Toolmonger's statement, that the long list can be described as a technique applied to represent a total manipulation of reality verging on fabrication, in a seemingly ordered fashion in attempt to make the distortions appear to be 'real', when this is not so.

I have written a reply that answers in more detail, but it would take an even longer list in order to reply, and there is a word limit, so I would need to edit it.

For the time being, I would request that any person who read Toolmangler's statements not to take them with any degree of veracity, since many so called facts described are totally misrepresented versions of truth.

Personally I think that it is sick that someone should take advantage of the fact that this site is dedicated to the memorial of Anne Frank, who died, and that someone is attempting to seek to justify the horrors that the IDF have inflicted upon a large percentage of the civilian populations of various neighbouring countries, and upon the civilian indigenous land that the Zionist convert Idol worshippers from Eastern European descent and Russia have sought to inhabit, which is against all common understanding of the basic principles of Judaism.

[pondcaster]

liliapoxford: Distortions appear to be "real" when this is not so.

Nice try. You challenging the fact of the Holocaust is just par for the course. And then trying to justify the acts of the Germans to the IDF? What a joke! Blame the people you are so jealous of? Blame the people you can't understand nor measure up to? Very sad, indeed.

As most will agree, it's just no use trying to have a real dialogue with people that "think" like you do. You just don't have the faculties for that type of exercise.

Good luck in this world, you will need it.

[rebwriter]

Dear Iillapoxford:

Thank you for reminding us that hatred and stupidity is alive and well.

[gypsylady123]

Why did it take this long to show up? I have my doubts about its authenticity.

[UTinkUNoItAll]

You can't possibly be serious. Did you READ the article, visit the site? Many articles, videos, photos and other memorabilia from that time aren't always on display on a coffee table. Items are found decades later. A child going through their parent's effects find a photo that shows the house in the background for example. This movie, found years later. Maybe they hadn't looked at it in over 40 years and then, "OMG, Anne is in the window. We must give this to Anne Frank's house". To be that naive' and question its authenticity in unbelievable. Open your eyes!

The fact that the Germans were allowed to do this (it wasn't "just the Nazis"; the people of Germany knew da.mn well what was going on) and the complacency that followed due to perceptions of people based on propaganda and lies is just unforgivable. There is nothing today's generation can do other than keep the legacy alive and ensure it never happens again. The Holocaust was a sickening and horrifying thing; killing people for who they are and what they believe. No wonder many Nazis committed suicide; they did get off well for what they did. The gas chamber would have been better.

[suzypfisch]

I am only a person, just like most people caught in the middle. My greatest hope is that all the families, and especially the children will be safe, and that no one will have to die.

My wish is the same as most people's wishes: That my family and friends are safe. That they have food to eat and clean water to drink, and that there should never ever have to be another innocent life lost in the name of power or greed.

"Better" and "worse" are the words that begin the fighting. Wanting "more" before everyone has "enough" is what keeps the fighting going.

We are all just people, and all want to be allowed to live our lives as people with dignity. NOBODY needs to die for this to happen: There IS enough food and water and shelter and dignity for us all.

Only when everyone has those basic human needs met can any rational discourse happen about anything else. Hate does not accomplish anything. War does not accomplish anything.

Life is not a win/lose game, with winner take all:
When life becomes a win/win game for all people then the fighting can and will stop, because there will be no more reason to fight.

[suzypfisch]

When will this ever stop? Why does it have to happen? Is this really what people think? Of Jews? Of The Holocaust? That Anne's diary itself must be a fake "because my kids are Anne's age, and none of my kids could have written anything like that...", as one of the AOL post-ers wrote.
Anne's Diary was one of the first "real' books I ever read as a child, and so it's always been a special to me, and especially again now that her father has allowed more details of her life to be released since his death. Also because it has been the cause of a lifetime of repeated nightmares about soldiers trying to find me and my family to kill us or take us away.
And because it could have been anyone child: me, my daughter, my daughter's daughter. Anyone's child. My own nightmares have never stopped.
I went to Amsterdam in 2001: In fact I was there during this week in 2001, and since it was so soon after 9/11 there were almost no tourists and there was no line to get into the Anne Frank House like there usually is. What really shocked me was how close it was to the boulevard that runs up from the Main Train Station. As I recall it was only a few blocks.
It's only about a 20 minute train ride from A'dam Main Station to the German border. How they could have managed to stay hidden for as long as the did so close to the German border did is astonishing.
So the fact that Anne's father's employees and freiwnds risked their own lives for so long to keep them hidden in his own office building for so long (23 mos.), and that tells you a lot about the Dutch people, and why I love Holland so much.
When I scrolled down to read the "Comments" and it's was truly terrifying that this is what people today still really think about Jews, and about The Holocaust, and even about a child, named Anne.
How can this be in this day and age? Hasn't anyone learned anything, or are we really backsliding into blatant antisemitism being considered to be perfectly socially acceptable again?
I wrote a couple of my own posts, and they were published in the comments below the main article and, to my horror, with my AOL email address, which is frighteningly easy these days to trace back to the real me. I'm glad I said what I did, but if I had known that my real address would be shown, I probably wouldn't have posted them. What if it happens again? So mny of the comments are so terrifying, and I really begin to wonder "How does one know when it's time to get out, or when it is too late, like it was for the Frank family, or the rest of my own family?
When I was in Germany in 2001 in the little station near Rotenburg, one of the few intact medieval walled towns that had not been leveled during the war, and old woman came over to me and said in her halting best try at speaking English "I am so sorry to know about what happened to your people in New York.".

I asked her then "Where were you during the war? Why didn't you leave?"
She replied "You don't leave because you have your life here, and your home and your family here, and you still go to work every day like normal, and so you stay because you can't just leave your whole life and family behind, and because you think that the war is for the soldiers to fight, and so it will never come to you or your family or your home, so you stay like everything is normal, because the war is for the soldiers only.".

So I still ask myself: How WILL I know when it's time to get out, or when it is too late - like it was for the Frank family - or the rest of my own family? How does anyone know when to go...or where?

[suzypfisch]

Trapped in their own home also so was my family in Poland; killed weeks from the end of the war. There had been letters from my grandmother's sisters in Poland in a city right on the Russian border to my family in New York City all the way through the war about the rest of the family. About regular family things; births, weddings, just day-to-day family life. They were so far from the front that it seemed that the war would never reach them there. Then suddenly there were no more letters. Just like that. Gone.

What makes Anne Frank's Diary so heartbreaking is that it COULD be anyone's child: It has nothing to do with her being a Jew, or Dutch, or the fact that she was just a regular little girl like me, who enjoyed writing in her diary. It's about the fact that men make wars and innocent people REAL people, especially innocent children like Anne, and children in Darfur and Iraq and Afghanistan and Palestine and Israel and Detroit and Columbine and Oklahoma City die horrible, pointless and avoidable deaths because they happen to be in their own homes and schools, living their own lives thinking as children think: That their world is safe.
Until it just happens that they are caught in the wrong place at the wrong time through no fault of their own, or because someone else hates them for no reason, and they die. Some of them like Anne die horrible long painful drawn out deaths, and others die in an instant and are at lest spared pain.

[suzypfisch]

This story about the Anne Frank footage popped up on my "Welcome" page when I logged in this morning. After I read the article and looked the the rest of the YouTube videos linked to it, especially the haunting "virtual tour" of their home; their hideout, I started to read the comments and then I started to get truly frightened:
I am a 50 yr old Jewish woman with 2 daughters and a 2yr old granddaughter. I read Anne's Diary in grade school. After reading it as a child I've had repeated nightmares about soldiers coming to take me and my family away and kill us.
Right after 9/11 I went to visit Europe during all of October 2001 with a friend, a backpack and a train pass. When we were in Amsterdam it was a beautiful fall day. In fact I think it may have even been today in 2001. We got off the train at A'dam Main station and walked several blocks to the museum. Because of 9/11 most tourists had canceled and so we could have just walked right in (usually there is a long line.).
It's astonishing how close they were to the center of A'dam; the train station; the main blvd.: and yet they were trapped. The leaves of the chestnut tree outside the window rustled in the wind, just like they had when she write about them in her diary...

I couldn't do it: I couldn't go inside. I stood outside and wept.

[rwsmith29456]

Glad somebody recognized it. Actually it's been on You Tube for years. I was pretty amazed when I saw it that I hadn't seen it in 54 years of living. Chalk one up for the internet in making this available.