Only Footage of Anne Frank Hits YouTube

Film of neighbor's wedding in 1941 was given to Holocaust victim's family in the 50s

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 2, 2009 10:55 AM CDT

(Newser) – The Anne Frank House has posted the only surviving video of the young diarist and Holocaust victim on YouTube. “The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” a museum representative tells the Guardian. The film, of an Amsterdam neighbor’s wedding, shows Anne peering down at the scene from an upstairs window. The couple gave it to Frank’s father in the 1950s after the publication of her diary.

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Anne Frank in 1941. (AP Photo)

The attic window, left, from where Anne Frank longingly looked at the chestnut tree, right. (AP Photo)

Anne Frank poses in 1941 in this photo made available by Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, June 11, 2009. (AP Photo/ Anne Frank House/ Frans Dupont, HO)

Anne Frank poses in 1941 in this photo made available by Anne Frank Fonds/ Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, June 11, 2009. (AP Photo/ Anne Frank Fonds/ Anne Frank House/ Frans Dupont, HO)

Anne Frank poses in 1941 in this photo made available by Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, June 11, 2009. (AP Photo/ Anne Frank House/ Frans Dupont, HO)

A facsimile of Anne Frank's diary displayed during a press conference at Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, June 11, 2009. (AP Photo/ Evert Elzinga)

In this image released by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday June 25, 2007, two photographs are combined of Anne Frank and her sister Margot. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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The museum has had the footage for some time, but thought YouTube would be a good platform to show the film and the other films about her life.
- Annemarie Bekker, Anne Frank House

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NxBigmouthery

Oct 5, 2009 1:31 AM CDT

I remember a couple of years back Stephen Fry appeared on a genealogy program and traced his family back to a small Hungarian town. He was poring over birth and marriage records which abruptly stopped in WW2. The town, up to that point, was full of Jewish people. Only one Jew lived there at the time of recording. Multiply that by all the towns and villages and hamlets etc in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Germany...and so on...and you have yourself a holocaust. How these idiots can deny it is beyond me.

Kookey90

Oct 3, 2009 4:14 AM CDT

May she rest in peace.

WallyEFunk

Oct 3, 2009 3:11 AM CDT

And may no one, ever forgets.

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Only Footage of Anne Frank Hits YouTube