Anne Frank: The Only Existing Video Now Online

There’s no sound, and the clip only runs 20 sec­onds. But this is the only known footage of Anne Frank, and it’s now online. The Anne Frank House does a good job of set­ting the scene for the video tak­en on July 22, 1941. “The girl next door is get­ting mar­ried. Anne Frank is lean­ing out of the win­dow of her house in Ams­ter­dam to get a good look at the bride and groom… At the time of her wed­ding, the bride lived on the sec­ond floor at Mer­wede­plein 39. The Frank fam­i­ly lived at num­ber 37, also on the sec­ond floor. The Anne Frank House can offer you this film footage thanks to the coop­er­a­tion of the cou­ple.” Find more videos on YouTube’s Anne Frank Chan­nel.

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  • sue ogden says:

    Sad to see such a vibrant young soul who would not make it but is loved by mil­lions of us.

  • jessica norton says:

    Aww,I just cant belive that actu­al­ly happened.And to such a inocent young girl.Anne Frank is one of my heros the rea­son is becase of she was always hap­py in the annex.She did­nt let the thought of death let her down.She was also a very pret­ty girl,reminds me of my friend Jade.

  • Wait, that is cer­tain­ly exact­ly what it real­ly is about? I could­n’t rec­og­nize we would basi­cal­ly have to do almost any do the job. I am just away from this kind of thing

    http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/member/28331/

  • Mimimayhem says:

    At least we have some­thing with her there! :) This is great.

  • Glenda says:

    Amaz­ing! She was and still is a hero to me!

  • i am from Ethiopia i got the Amhar­ic trans­la­tion of Anne frank diary its so heart break­ing but beau­ti­ful full of life and inspi­ra­tional .… though i believe God has a pur­pose… WHAT WE HUMANS LEARN FROM THIS THE GOOD AND THE BAD ONE !
    oh what ever my her soul rest in piece

  • i am from Ethiopia i got the Amhar­ic trans­la­tion of Anne frank diary its so heart break­ing but beau­ti­ful full of life and inspi­ra­tional .… though i believe God has a pur­pose… WHAT WE HUMANS LEARN FROM THIS THE GOOD AND THE BAD ONE !
    oh what ever may her soul rest in piece

  • Alan Hoshor says:

    I trav­eled in Ethiopia last Decem­ber and rec­og­nized Anne Frank’s pho­to on the cov­er of an Amhar­ic-lan­guage book that was being sold on the street in Addis near the Red Ter­ror Muse­um — which had its own cat­a­log of hor­rors from the Mengis­tu era in Ethiopia. I, too, hope that human­i­ty can learn from its past — par­tic­u­lar­ly the bloody, ide­ol­o­gy-plagued 20th Cen­tu­ry — and “learn from this the good.”

  • G.J.W. says:

    A very sad time, in the his­to­ry of this world. So much hate and, for what? This world is a very slow learn­er. The pret­ty Ann Frank had to die, because of hate.

    Sort of reminds me of Malal­la who was shot because, she wants all female chil­dren to be able to, go to school in peace and safe­ty.

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