Video of Anne Frank Shows Up on YouTube
By Susie Madrak Saturday Oct 03, 2009 5:00pmThe only existing film footage of Anne Frank has been uploaded to YouTube by the Anne Frank House. The Amsterdam museum is hoping to bring attention to Anne’s story and diaries and reach a new generation who may be unfamiliar with her story.
At the 9 second mark in the clip, you can see Anne Frank leaning out of a second-story window as she watches a bride and groom exit a neighboring address. The Guardian reports that the scene dates back to July 22, 1941 and was provided to the museum by the couple in the 1990s.
The story also goes that in the 1950s, once Anne’s diary became public, the couple recognized Anne in their wedding video. So they decided to contact her father, Otto Frank, to whom they gave a 5 second version of the clip.
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Thanks Susie.
There may come a time, in the future of mankind, when all who were created equal are treated equally. That time came much too late for Anne Frank. I only hope that time doesn’t come too late for the rest of us.
I was reading her book, seeing the play and everything else I could find about Anne Frank.
But seeing this short clip is very touching, indeed!
This clip was featured in the Academy Award winning documentary "Anne Frank Remembered," from 1995. A wonderful film well worth seeing if you get the chance.
I've been to her house!
Interesting pad.
The museum has done a good job preserving the house without turning into either a 'tourist attraction' or a shrine, leaving it as much as possible as Anne Frank would have known it.
Anne Frank was just one of millions who were murdered by the Nazi regime - but our minds can't grasp the human suffering in millions. So it takes one girl, and five seconds of video, to put a human face to the tragedy. I so wish for her she could have simply grown up, been happy, lived a good life, had a few personal triumphs, survived a few personal disappointments, and died in relative obscurity. If we are very lucky, that will be our fate.
even knew a goddamned THING about real Nazis...
... it takes one to know one.
Opening of Munich Olympics, set to Pink Floyd's "A Saucer Full of Secrets." Eerily disturbing. (Thanks to Can O Whoopass.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEOgXcWElCA&fe...
Osterreich and Frankreich, already under the spell even if they were still independent.
"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery, and death...and yet...I think...this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again."
ten years ago. It became a moving spiritual experience for me and my whole family. My father fought the Nazis in North Africa and Italy from 1942 thru 1944. One of his most prized "trophies" from that whole experience was the two-foot-by-three-foot red, black, and white silk swastika flag that he brought home in his foot locker. He had grown up in a German-speaking family in Iowa and Minnesota. He was a medic, and the Army put his German language skills to good use in interrogating wounded German prisoners before sending them back to rear-line hospitals. He told me many times that his most effective interrogations started with a hot meal, an offer of an Americna cigarrette, and a glass of local Italian wine. After one such informtive session an SS officer thanked him for his kindness and gave him his personal Swastika flag, saying that it wouldn't be much use to him any more. It is a SHAME, and a blight on the memory of the Nazis that they could not find such kindness and humanity in their dealings with the Frank Family in Amsterdam. It is our moral duty to ALWAYS REMEMBER... and ALWAYS offer kindness and understanding.
Thank you!
Girls like Anne are killed, raped, and murdered every day. Her story can't hold a candle to their stories.
I'm waiting for a diary written by a Sudanese, Burmese, or Palestinian child. And not by a child who hid, but by one who fought back!
Dude, that is a SERIOUSLY sad and gross misinterpritation of what she and her family went through.
How?
Doesn't mean that nobody does.
I played Otto Frank in the play, and cried when I visited her house. But even those who know the story well don't stop practicing oppression and evil.
is bullshit
and that is the game you are playing
and it makes me sick
it belongs on stormfront....not here
You wish to point out that there is still injustice in this world. Fine – there is. You wish to point out that there are those who choose to fight injustice and die. Yes – they do.
Such tragedy will continue to exist as long as there are those who will selfishly advance their own goals at the ultimate expense of others.
…and the travesty of injustice will continue to exist as long as there are those with no empathy and understanding for the plight of those suffering under that injustice.
“Doesn’t hold a candle” you say? One travesty is in no way diminished because the next occurred in sequence. Stop for a moment, in your haste to equate all suffering and thereby diminish them all, and read Anne’s diary. You may gain a better understanding and empathy for that Sudanese, Burmese, or Palestinian child. You will, at least, get a better understanding of what happened in Amsterdam in 1944.
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I'm saying there's even more injustice in the world, but people aren't willing to deal with it in the present.
No one objects to The Diary Of Anne Frank being performed in schools across the nation because everyone agrees that the Nazis were evil and had to be stopped. It's a great, inspiring story, but it has little to do with today's problems. It can enlighten us, but actual oppressive regimes in the world today aren't going to be written about in Scholastic readers and adapted into plays to be performed in high school auditoriums.
None of the evil in the world at the moment can be confronted because people feel too uncomfortable talking about it or taking sides in public schools where it should be discussed.
I am a liberal. And here I am being attacked by other liberals letting emotions get in the way. Viewing the diary as a means to promote peace, or viewing it as an ineffective means to promote peace isn't part of the discussion. People really just care to prove I'm less significant than they are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBxEoMivCkQ
Taj Mahal fathered an illegitimate child with an acquaintance of mine. It's a perfect song for him.
So What? What business is that of yours? And why bring that up.
Somethings not right here.
you just can't reach...I'm done here.
Glad you like Taj too.
Luvs me some Taj.
You wrote:
We're not talking about Pete Hoekstra comparing himself to Iranian protestors. We're talking about a little girl who died a horrible death in a concentration camp. You're trying to make this about who lived a life under more horrible circumstances, as if there's some sort of system to judge the misery.
If only you were satirizing this sort of argument...
I don’t think it was as easy to stigmatize the Nazi movement in America in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. Though we have the benefit of hindsight and the recollections of those such as the young Anne Frank to make the black and white/good and evil comparisons today – our fathers and grandfathers did not. Like today, knowing good from evil is not always evident.
I also wonder if there will be literature as compelling as Anne’s Diary when those who write our story start to tell our tale. In many ways the late 20th Century was the height of our civilization, and in many ways it could not have sunk lower. We solved plague and petulance, yet killed more in war than those would have. We no longer convert religious faiths under threat and practice of torture, yet we still practice torture. We have all the benefits of time-saving appliances, yet work harder and longer hours for the simple staples. We grow food on every plain across our continent, and yet millions die from hunger and malnutrition. We have available so much energy to waste, yet kill others to make more.
Perhaps our tale will be that story of contrast and disparity. Not as compelling as that of Anne Frank, but the story isn’t over yet, is it?
In the mean time – yes, the suffering continues.
Great post!
happened to Anne Frank isn't as bad as what's happened to millions of other girls. I'm sure she would have felt better, dying of typhus at Auschwitz, to know that what was happening to her wasn't as bad as all that.
Are you trying to say that The Diary of Anne Frank prevents people from getting angry about what the Israeli government is doing in Palestine? Prevents people from getting angry at "the Jews"?
the douchebag Olympics are not in another 3 more years. I see you are training hard for the gold this time around!
just perfect
Kind of meaningless, I thought.
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No, seriously. How old are you?
I'm sure you'd sing a different tune if it happened to you or yours.
Do have any idea how many people died in WW2, just in the European theater?
Callous doesn't describe it well enough.
The war is long gone, but the hate still rages.
She and the people in the war suffered, obviously, but her story isn't effective against today's evil.
You honestly don't see the significance.
It's just that the children who are suffering far worse today can still be saved, yet they have no voices.
I seriously do not understand you.
... children who are suffering far worse today?
I think there's a limit that caps just how much 'suffering' is possible to inflict on children, on anyone. And the Nazis topped it out, time and time again.
Mourn that the lessons Anne Frank and so many other children lost in that abomination haven't made this world any better for many children around the world. But don't even think about lessening what Frank and several million children, and several million more adults, endured - or didn't, as they did not survive. You not only cheapen their deaths and suffering, you make a mockery of the suffering still existing today.
I think that's why you're meeting with such approbation.
Other than that, well written.
And why don't you just say what you're thinking?
What happened to Anne Frank was as awful as could be, not only for her, but for millions upon millions. I know people who suffer to this day because of those experiences.
The awfulness of those experiences do not in any way diminish the experiences of those who suffer as you say, nor should their suffering diminish the suffering of Anne Frank.
And it certainly isn't up to you to diminish her experience.
I'm not the one diminishing her experience. History is.
Saying "Her story can't hold a candle to their stories" is utter diminishment. "And not by a child who hid, but by one who fought back!" Disgusting on your part.
Those are your words.
I guess you are in total denial of that fact as well.
I find it extremely difficult to believe your story about visiting her house, and ludicrous your claim of having cried while there.
I'm not sure if this person knows that Anne Frank died in a concentration camp.
She died in Bergen-Belsen of typhus.
Was one of the 1st troops in Bergen Belsan.
What he saw, ruined him for the rest of his life.
If one can't feel some kind of compassion for her and what she and her family went through, there's something wrong.
I remember the 1st time I saw an elderly Jewish man, with the numbers tattooed on his arm. Talk about shocking.
The Battle of Britain. The Nazi's were well into bombing
the hell outta Britain. The Nazi's were starving out the Brits. The Wolf Packs were sinking all aid going to Britain.
And brought the whole city down to ashes.
People seem to forget that part.
It's nearly a year after. The Battle of Britain- or at least the part referred to as The Blitz- ended in the middle of September of '40, when Hitler postponed the invasion of Britain.
This was shot a month after the Nazis invaded the USSR.
It started in 40. I should have known that. Thanks for the correction.
I feel compassion. But there needs to be more compassion and action for the child victims of today!
the memory of a dead child, than the disgust of everyone reading who would otherwise agree with you 100% if you weren't being a jerk, huh?
Ms. Frank's experience to further the suffering of today's children? It's not convincing anyone here.
You casually discarded her experience.
What? Do you think we don't know what's going on today?
In Africa? Or in the South Pacific? Or the Middle East?
really. The mind boggles.
This is for the person who does not understand why.
The Anne Frank story was what is was. It was revealed right after the war. It brought some reality or something to a lot of people. Kids read about her and her experiences for many years after the war. Kids in the 1960s and 1970s and later who didn't have a personal experience with a war that their fathers and mothers and grandparents and a whole lot of people they knew experienced. Anne Franks's Diary brought some insight to people. Sure her story was not a whole lot different than 100s and maybe millions of others but her story made it real for a lot of people. Something other than a magazine or film or whatever. Now with this video it is interesting to a lot of people who grew up with the Anne Frank story. This has nothing to do with Sudan or kids in Palestine or suffering anyplace else. Anne Frank takes nothing from everybody who has suffered since or before. Your trip is a false equivalency.
"There needs to be more compassion", huh?
So show it. Manifest it in your own life, and stop swinging your ignorant, moralizing dick around here to no purpose.
STFU, and go join the Red Cross or something, if you're such a paragon of compassion.
I have pictures from the house, so don't call me a liar.
Your the one who stuck his foot in his mouth.
Deal with it. Not to mention you can't prove your recent assertion either.
How did I stick my foot in my mouth?
And what is my recent assertion?
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/comment/p...
Start all over again, huh?
...before you next click on submit:
"You know what? You're right. I was wrong. In my rush to point out the suffering of girls that age that continues right up to this very second, I wrote something incredibly dumb. I apologize for that."
That would work.
Ditto.
Thank you.
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Apologizing is an incredibly difficult thing to do. I'll start. I am really sorry for being such an asshole so many times. I will try to get it
rightcorrect more often in the future.Hey that felt good.
I'm sorry for being an asshole too. Especially for making the mods work harder than they need too.
For that I Am Sorry. Hey, no one can be correct all of the time.:)
Mudshark, you're a good guy.
I'm sorry.
You won't find a better group of people than the people here..
And believe it or not? Some of these people are very smart. We don't always see eye to eye on any number of issues.
But we have one common goal. A better America.
I got morning schmutz in my eyes
I thought you said bitter.
Apology accepted. I'll apologize to you, Captain Kangaroo.
I am sorry.
I have pictures from the house too; they're all over the internet. And I've never been there. You can make up and peddle any story you like on the internet, I'm not about to believe anything you say when your initial post is nothing like a guy who would cry at Anne Frank's house.
And calling you a liar? Is that a horrible blow that makes you suffer? Suffer more than a Sudanese, Burmese, or Palestinian child?
If you went there, I'm sure you would cry too. The feeling is overwhelming. It was the pictures of celebrities that Anne had put up on the wall that did it for me.
You'd make a perfect candidate for a Fox News "Leftist." Hannity could use you to make the left look bad, just as he used Colmes to make Liberals look weak.
I hope they would let me on the show because I would stand up on my chair and piss on Hannity's head.
In this modern age of video cellphones and digital cameras, just about every major event seems to get caught on film. The first plane to hit the trade centers, Sully's water landing in the Hudson, and that recent collision between a sight-seeing helicopter and a single-engine plane in NY last month, all caught on video.
So for footage of someone LONG before the age of "video everywhere" to turn up is quite astounding.
This footage was found, announced and distributed over ten years ago and was included in the documentary Anne Frank Remembered (1995). How do media outlets talk themselves into covering fourteen year old news?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112373/
Oh God!!!!! Well, I guess we'll all have to move on, whether history has changed or not...
Wow, thanks for posting that video Susie! Unlike the apparent sophistos and swells who've already seen it, I hadn't. I must say it's very confusing emotionally to view, happy/ sad/ astonishing/ appalling/ really sad.
I hope people won't ever have to live in other people's attics again, but I kinda doubt that's how things are going to play out.
I felt the same way as you when I saw it. I don't know why it is interesting but is is.
She was really wise beyond her years, and it's touching watching her peer out at that wedding!
I didn't know this footage existed.
I played Anne Frank's father in a high school production of 'The Diary of Anne Frank', which for better or worse infected me with the acting bug. Doing this play was an emotional experience I often think back on. We rehearsed for months, and did a pretty good job of it.
During the run, an old man came backstage one night. He told us that he had spent much of the war hiding from the Nazis, and our performance had really affected him. He didn't say much more than this - I've often wondered what his story was.
Learn from history. Don't take anything for granted. If it happened then, it can happen again. Yes, even here.
And with the way the GOPers are behaving with the help of Fux(Pravda) it definitely could happen here.
I know that sounds crazy. But it already happened.
Beck, Hannity and the rest are stoking the flames of hate.
Then, anything can happen.
One word
Stanley Milgram
(Okay, two).
Really. I was in the library during some campaign and they had a bunch of books that had been banned or requested to be banned. The reason given: Too big of a downer.
But I second guessed myself.
I seem to recall a book burning in the not so distant past.
I thought it was because the book made the Nazis look bad.
I remember my 4th grade teacher reading The Diary of Anne Frank to the class. It seemed haunting to me then, just as this video seems haunting to me now.
When I see these idiot town hallers holding up Hitler / Nazi signs, I know that they have no interest in world history, nor do they care to learn.
I saw this video on YouTube in the summer of 2006. Why is this suddenly a story? AOL/Politics Daily posted it, but of course they did it so people will argue in the comment section and refresh a bunch of times, increasing page views for those beloved advertising dollars.
1995. While that may be true (and perhaps should have been stated earlier), by the volume of posts here, it's clear that it's the first time many of us, swamped by the sheer volume of info on the 'net, have seen it. Glad you got a jump on us.
I would like to address the anonymous person who condemned Anne Frank for hiding and not fighting back against the German Army. (Read here.)
Back in my day, I had to take on an entire Panzer Division single-handed just to walk to school. No hiding in a comfortable closet for me! And that was when I was 6 years old!
These people with all their talk of Anne Frank have no idea how good she had it; getting to die of typhus in a comfortable concentration camp like Bergen-Belsen. When I was killed, they burned me at the stake while wild animals gnawed at my entrails. But did I complain? Never!
These fools don't know how good Anne Frank had it!
I guess no one warned you ahead of time ... the trick is to inhale the smoke as hard as you can; with luck you'll go unconscious. If you last until the flames get high enough, or the smoke is superheated, then inhale that. It will sear your lungs and death will come much sooner.
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