Annelies Marie Frank • The Diary of Anne Frank

July 26, 2007 – For the 10th anniversary of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the museum’s curators decided to display Anne Frank’s complete original writings in one place. In the process, they discovered a talented but little-known writer, who transformed her loneliness into hope for the future. In this interview Sara J. Bloomfield, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, explores the extraordinary precocity of Anne Frank and what her creativity and her loss means for people today.

September 23, 2009 – This is one of the few television interviews Otto Frank gave. Sitting in one of the rooms of the Secret Annex, he is talking about his surprise at the things his daughter Anne Frank wrote in her diary. Her thoughts on life, her self-criticism: this was not the daughter he had known. Otto was the only member of his family to survive the holocaust. When he returned, Miep Gies gave him his daughters diary. She had saved it after the people in hiding had been arrested. After reading it, Otto Frank decided to publish the diary. As he puts it: To build up a future you have to know the past. The video is an excerpt from the television program The Legacy of Anne Frank, which was part of the series The Eternal Light by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America & NBC. It was broadcast on 24 December 1967. The Anne Frank House holds an original film copy of this rarely shown film.

January 12, 2010 – In this 1988 interview, Harry Smith spoke with Miep Gies and Mary Steenburgen on the film The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank and Gies’ time spent harboring the Jewish child in Amsterdam during the Holocaust.

January 12, 2010 – Miep Gies is dead at age 100. She had helped hide Anne Frank from the Nazis during World War II, and saved the teen’s diary, which later became known around the world.

January 12, 2010 – Miep Gies, who saved the now famous diaries, was the last survivor of those who helped Anne Frank. Harry Smith remembers her and her efforts to educate children.

October 11, 2012 – Hanneli Goslar and Anne Frank had been friends since kindergarten in Amsterdam. They had not seen each other sing July 1942, when Anne went into hiding. Interview by Jon Blair in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for his documentary “Anne Frank Remembered”, december 1994.

March 21, 2014 – Tour of the Secret Annex.

May 14, 2014 – Almost seven decades after her death at Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank remains the best known of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, this owing to the diary that she kept while hiding in Amsterdam. On May 1, we had a rare opportunity to hear from a woman who knew Anne in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, one of her last contacts still alive. Laureen Nussbaum was born Hannelore Klein. Like the Frank sisters, she and her two sisters were born in Frankfurt, Germany, Hannelore herself being a little closer in age to Margot Frank (born 1926) than to Anne (born 1929). Their parents knew each other in Frankfurt and they became friends in Amsterdam, where they had taken refuge after the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933. The girls of both families shared many experiences. However, as the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands progressed, the two families suffered very different fates. Of the Franks only Anne’s father, Otto, survived the war, while the Kleins made it through intact, for reasons Laureen explains in her talk.

Two years after the war ended, Hannelore, called Hansje in the Netherlands, married Rudi Nussbaum, another young refugee from Germany, who was the only survivor of his family. Otto Frank was the best man at their wedding. After Rudi had completed his PhD in Physics at the Amsterdam City University, they moved with their young family to the United States. Hansje, now Laureen, eventually acquired her PhD at the University of Washington and joined her husband on the faculty of Portland State University, where both of them enjoyed long teaching careers, he in Physics and she in Foreign Languages and Literatures. Rudi passed away in 2011. In this video, Nussbaum tells her own story of survival, shares her unique memories of Anne and Margot, and examines and appraises the extraordinary legacy that is Anne’s Diary.

May 26, 2014 – A German-Jewish teen hides with her family and others in the attic of an Amsterdam office building during the Holocaust.

June 15, 2016 – Anne Frank’s original family home: the Frank family’s home in Amsterdam is being restored by the Anne Frank Foundation.

May 30, 2017 – Holocaust survivor Anne Frank’s best friend – Hannah Pick Goslar.

January 28, 2019 – Bafta nominated film. Anne Frank is one of the most famous authors and diarists the world has ever seen. This film for the BBC’s children’s news program Newsround tells the story of a little girl who without knowing changed the world. Presenter: Nazia Mogra Shown on CBBC during Holocaust Memorial Day and on the Iplayer.

November 17, 2019 – This video provides a short overview of Anne Frank’s life, presenting her life in hiding as emerges from her diary, which went on to be the most famous, and best-selling personal diary of all time. Credits: Text: Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, (USA: Doubleday, 1995) Yad Vashem Archives Anne Frank House, Amsterdam Photo Collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam ANNE FRANK FONDS Basel, Switzerland Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid Music: Awaken by Martynas Lau Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

March 14, 2020 – In this fascinating and heart-breaking film, Eva Schloss talks about her memories of Anne, her experiences and survival, and life as the step-daughter of Otto Frank, Anne’s father and the sole survivor of the family.

June 1, 2020 – I’ve edited together a short documentary about Margot Frank, older sister of Anne Frank for educational purposes. The photographs in this short film belong to the collections of the Anne Frank Stichting and the Anne Frank Fonds – I do not own anything!

November 24, 2020 – The Diary Of Anne Frank – The world’s most widely read work of non-fiction after the bible – During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. 2009. Stars: Kate Ashfield, Geoffrey Breton, Ron Cook

January 4, 2021 – Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl ~The AudioBook~

April 23, 2021 – Through her diary, Anne Frank’s story is retold alongside those of five Holocaust survivors in this poignant documentary from Oscar winner Helen Mirren.

October 4, 2021 – The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, which was in turn based on the diary of Anne Frank. It was directed by George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It is the first film version of both the play and the original story, and features three members of the original Broadway cast. Plot: In 1945, as a truckload of war survivors stops in front of an Amsterdam factory at the end of World War II, Otto Frank (Joseph Schildkraut) gets out and walks inside. After climbing the stairs to a deserted garret, Otto finds a girl’s discarded glove and sobs, then is joined and comforted by Miep Gies (Dodie Heath) and Mr. Kraler (Douglas Spencer), office workers who shielded him from the Nazis.

After stating that he is now all alone, Otto begins to search for the diary written by his youngest daughter, Anne. Miep promptly retrieves it for him and he receives solace reading the words written by Anne three years earlier. The action moves back to July 1942, and Anne (Millie Perkins) begins by chronicling the restrictions placed upon Jews that drove the Franks into hiding over the spice factory. Sharing the Franks’ hiding place are the Van Daans (Lou Jacobi and Shelley Winters) and their teenage son, Peter (Richard Beymer). Kraler, who works in the office below, and Miep, his assistant, have arranged the hideaway and warn the families that they must maintain strict silence during daylight hours while the workers are there. On the first day, the minutes drag by in silence.

After work, Kraler delivers food and a box for Anne compiled by Otto, which contains her beloved photos of movie stars and a blank diary. In the first pages of the diary, she describes the strangeness of never being able to go outside or breathe fresh air. She states that everybody is good at heart. As the months pass, Anne’s irrepressible energy reasserts itself and she constantly teases Peter, whose only attachment is to his cat, Moushie. Isolated from the world outside, Otto schools Anne and her sister, Margot (Diane Baker), as the sounds of sirens and bombers frequently fill the air. Mrs. Van Daan passes the time by recounting fond memories of her youth and stroking her one remaining possession, the fur coat given to her by her father. The strain of confinement causes the Van Daans to argue and pits the strong-willed Anne against her mother, Edith Frank (Gusti Huber).

One day, Kraler brings a radio to the attic, providing the families with ears onto the world. Soon after, he asks them to take in another person, a Jewish dentist named Albert Dussell (Ed Wynn). When Van Daan complains that the addition will diminish their food supply, Dussell recounts the dire conditions outside, in which Jews suddenly disappear and are shipped to concentration camps. When Dussell confirms the disappearance of many of their friends, the families’ hopes are dimmed. One night, Anne dreams of seeing one of her friends in a concentration camp and wakes up screaming. In October 1942, news comes of the Allied landing in Africa but the bombing of Amsterdam intensifies, fraying the refugees’ already ragged nerves. During Hanukkah, Margot longingly recalls past celebrations and Anne produces little presents for everyone.

When Van Daan abruptly announces that Peter must get rid of Moucshi because he consumes too much food, Anne protests. Their argument is cut short when they hear a prowler break in the front door and the room falls silent. Peter then sends an object crashing to the floor while trying to catch Moushie, and the startled thief grabs a typewriter and flees. A watchman notices the break-in and summons two police officers, who search the premises, shining their flashlights onto the bookcase that conceals the attic entrance. The families wait in terror until Moushie knocks a plate from the table and mews, reassuring the officers that the noise was caused by a common cat. After they leave, Otto, hoping to foster faith and courage, leads everyone in a Hanukkah song. Дневник Ане Франк (1959) Dnevnik Ane Frank (1959) Dnevnik Anne Frank (1959)

December 7, 2021 – A Tale of Two Sisters: The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam following the uprising of the Nazi Party in 1933. Five Years later, in 1938, Eva Schloss remembers the Nazis marching on Austria and then her family fleeing and settling in Amsterdam the same year. They found they were in the same residential square as Anne and her family. Anne and Eva although mixed in different circles found a bond from the shared experience of being displaced by the Nazis. This was the beginning of an extraordinary story where Eva would become inextricably linked to Anne Frank and her legacy over the next 70 years. Both Eva and Anne’s family had to go into hiding from the Nazi’s, both were betrayed at different times, caught and sent to concentration camps. Eva would survive her dreadful experience in Auschwitz.

Anne tragically died shortly before the Belsen Camp was liberated in March 1945. Anne’s father Otto, and Eva’s mother Elfriede survived. They both lost their partners and other children. The Diary was discovered shortly after the war and published in 1947. Elfriede and Otto became closer, offering each other emotional support. In 1953 Otto and Elfriede married. Eva would be one of the first people to hear Otto read extracts from the Diary, a feat which he couldn’t manage to do without breaking down into tears. Otto became a surrogate father to Eva helping her find a vocation in photography. Eva witnessed first hand the publication and dramatization of the Diary of Anne Frank. Eva would find herself more and more involved in the Anne Frank Foundation set up by Otto in 1963. In 1989 she set up the Anne Frank Trust UK which aimed to share the message of the Anne Frank foundation to challenge prejudice and hatred.

January 16, 2022 – A retired FBI special agent and a team of investigators believe they’ve solved one of the world’s most well-known and tragic cold cases. Jon Wertheim reports.

July 16, 2022 – Death of Anne Frank & Her Life in Secret Annex in the Shadow of Nazi Regime – Holocaust -World War 2. The 10th of May, 1940, World War 2, the Netherlands. Anne Frank was born on the 12th of June 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany to Otto and Edith Frank. Anne had also a sister, Margot Frank, who was three years her senior. Their life changed dramatically when on the 30th of January 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, was appointed chancellor of Germany by the German President Paul von Hindenburg. Because of business problems and growing antisemitism, Otto Frank decided to leave Germany and move to the Netherlands. The Second World War started on the 1st of September 1939. Anne Frank was 10 years old when Germany invaded the Netherlands on the 10th of May 1940.

The life of the Franks, who were once again under Nazi domination, changed completely. On the 5th of July 1942, Margot, Anne’s sister, received a call-up to report for a so-called ‘labor camp’ in Nazi Germany. Knowing the faith of their friends and acquaintances who had been sent to such camps and never returned, the Franks did not hesitate for a moment. The next morning, they went into hiding in order to escape persecution. In the secret annex the family would spend long 761 days. After 7 days, the Franks were joined by the Van Pels family made up of Hermann, Auguste, and 16-year-old Peter from whom Anne would receive her first kiss in the secret annex. In November, they were joined by Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and family friend.

To this day, we do not know the reason for the police raid, but the hiding period came to an abrupt end on the 4th of August 1944. Dutch police officers headed by SS officer Karl Silberbauer went to investigate a tip-off that Jews were hiding in the upstairs rooms at Prinsengracht 263. From a prison in Amsterdam, they were sent to the Westerbork transit camp. After a few weeks, they were sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Their train was the last one to leave Westerbork for this extermination camp located in Nazi-occupied Poland. While Otto ended up in a camp for men, Anne, Margot and their mother Edith were sent to the labor camp for women. When in early November 1944, Anne and Margot were deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, their parents stayed behind at Auschwitz.

Edith Frank died of weakness and disease on the 6th of January 1945. In Bergen-Belsen Anne and Margot contracted typhus. They both died in February 1945 owing to the effects of typhus, Margot first, Anne shortly afterwards. It was initially believed that the sisters died a few weeks before the camp’s liberation on the 15th of April 1945. However, it was later revealed that they may have died as early as February.

August 24, 2022 – Death of Margot Frank – Life in Secret Annex during German Occupation – Auschwitz – Bergen Belsen. Margot Frank was born on the 16th of February 1926 in Frankfurt, Germany to Otto Frank and Edith Frank. Margot also had a sister, Anne Frank, who was three years her junior. Their life changed dramatically when on the 30th of January 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, was appointed chancellor of Germany by the German President Paul von Hindenburg. In September 1933, Otto Frank founded a franchise for the Amsterdam branch of the Opekta company that traded in pectin, a gelling agent for making jam. The rest of the family moved to Amsterdam soon after. The Second World War started on the 1st of September 1939. Margot Frank was 14 years old when Germany invaded the Netherlands on the 10th of May 1940.

The Netherlands became an occupied territory, and it did not take long for the Nazis to begin introducing new anti-Semitic laws and regulations restricting the lives of Jews. The situation got worse in 1941 when Jewish men were arrested during raids and then deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. On the 5th of July 1942, Margot received a call-up to report for a so-called ‘labor camp’ in Nazi Germany. Knowing the faith of their friends and acquaintances who had been sent to such camps and never returned, the Franks did not hesitate for a moment. The next morning, they went into hiding in order to escape persecution. In the secret annex the family would spend 761 long days. After 7 days, the Franks were joined by the Van Pels family made up of Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, and 16-year-old Peter van Pels. In November, they were joined by Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and family friend.

The people in hiding were completely dependent on six helpers. The situation for hidden Dutch Jews became more dangerous after September 1942, when special units were formed, made up of Dutch collaborators, that began hunting for hiding Jews. An estimated 25,000 Jews went into hiding in the Netherlands. Two thirds of them survived and one third were betrayed and discovered. To this day, we do not know the reason for the police raid, but the hiding period for the 8 people in the Secret Annex came to an abrupt end on the 4th of August 1944. From a prison in Amsterdam, they were sent to the Westerbork transit camp. They ended up in the prison barracks, and the men and women were separated. Otto had to work during the day but in the evening, he could be with Edith, Margot, and Anne.

On the 3rd of September, 1944, they were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. While Otto ended up in a camp for men, his wife and daughters were sent to the labor camp for women. Margot Frank, chosen for slave labor, was forced to cut sods or carry stones. After the war, survivors described Margot, Anne and their mom Edith as an inseparable trio. Otto would never see them again. On the night of the 1st of November 1944, Margot and Anne were deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, their parents stayed behind at Auschwitz. Edith Frank died of weakness and disease on the 6th of January 1945, three weeks before the Red Army liberated the camp. At Bergen-Belsen, Margot, who was in a weakened state, died when she fell from her bunk onto a cold stone floor. She was killed by the shock. Anne died shortly after Margot.

September 26, 2022 – Edith Frank was born on the 16th of January 1900 in Aachen, then part of the German Empire. In 1924 she met Otto Frank and they got married. The couple then moved to a new housing estate in Frankfurt am Main, where Margot Frank, their elder daughter, was born on the 16th of February 1926. Anne Frank was born three years later on the 12th of June 1929. The Great Depression also played a role in the emergence of Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, as a viable political leader in Germany. Because of business problems and growing antisemitism, the Franks made a difficult decision to leave their country and emigrate to the Netherlands. The Franks were among 300,000 Jews who fled from Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939.

After the experiences in the Third Reich, the family soon felt at home in Amsterdam and the girls enrolled in Dutch schools. They made new friends and despite initial problems with the Dutch language, they became excellent students, especially Margot. In the meantime, Edith’s family, who had been left behind in Aachen, witnessed the violence and destruction of the Kristallnacht which occurred on the 9th – 10th of November 1938, when the Nazi leaders unleashed a series of coordinated violent riots against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany and recently incorporated territories. World War 2 started on the 1st of September 1939. All of Edith and Otto’s hopes that they would be safe in the Netherlands were dashed by the invasion of the German army in May 1940.

The Netherlands became an occupied territory, and it did not take long for the Nazis to begin introduce new anti-Semitic laws and regulations that restricted the lives of Jews. But the situation only continued to get worse and in 1941 Jewish men were arrested during raids and then deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. The systematic deportation of Dutch Jews to the death camps started in the summer of 1942. Transports regularly left the transit camps of Westerbork and Vught. On the 5th of July 1942, Margot, Anne’s sister, received a call-up to report for a so-called ‘labor camp’ in Nazi Germany. The next morning, they went into hiding in order to escape persecution. In the secret annex, Edith and Otto were to stay with a rebellious Anne and a thoughtful Margot for 761 long days.

After 7 days, the Franks were joined by the Van Pels family made up of Hermann Van Pels, Auguste Van Pels, and 16-year-old Peter Van Pels from whom Anne would receive her first kiss. In November, they were joined by Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and family friend. It is Anne’s diary thanks to which we know how the Frank family and 4 other Jews lived for more than 2 years in a three-story space entered through a revolving bookcase. The people in hiding were completely dependent on six helpers – these were Miep and Jan Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, and Bep and Johan Voskuijl . They were employees and friends of Anne’s father who provided food, clothing, and everything necessary to the 8 people in the Secret Annex between 1942 and 1944. On the 4th of August 1944 the hiding place had been discovered and its 8 inhabitants were arrested.

The Dutch police officers were headed by an Austrian SS officer Karl Silberbauer. From a prison in Amsterdam, they were sent to the Westerbork transit camp. On the 3rd of September 1944, the Franks were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. While Otto Frank ended up in a camp for men, his wife and daughters were sent to the labor camp for women. Margot, chosen for slave labor, was forced to cut sods or carry stones. When at the end of October 1944, Margot and Anne were put on a transport to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, Edith stayed behind at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Edith Frank was 44 years old when she died of starvation and disease in the sick barracks a few days later on the 6th of January 1945, only three weeks before the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her daughters, who by then were at Bergen-Belsen, did not survive either. Otto Frank survived and was liberated on the 27th of January 1945 when the Soviets entered Auschwitz. In the end, at least Anne’s dreams would come true, and the world learned about her story as well as that of her sister Margot and other members of the Secret Annex.

October 28, 2022 – originally broadcast May 10, 1976 to mark the BBCs 100th birthday – Lesley Judd interviews Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank, who has made a special visit to Britain to show Blue Peter viewers his daughter’s original diaries. Valerie Singleton, meanwhile, reports from Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam on the story behind the diary. BBC’s wonderful archivists have been asked to pick THEIR favorite BBC moments. “It was a sensitive, memorable interview, in the last year before Otto Frank’s death, a perfect example of the BBC’s commitment to outstanding television for children – respecting its audience and not talking down to them, delivering the ‘inform and educate’ principles as strongly and purposely as they did for adult audiences.” – Deborah.

May 2, 2023 – Miep Gies, who believes she’s just a secretary, is asked to hide the Franks and must rise to the occasion. No longer ordinary, her first task is to get a nervous Margot into the secret hiding place in plain view of the Nazis.