The only footage of Anne Frank hits the Net

The Star ^ | 10/2/09 | John Sakamoto

[Nachum]

It's silent, in black and white, and only 20 seconds long, but the only known film footage of Anne Frank has already had an international impact since hitting the Internet Wednesday.

Shot on July 22 1941 – almost exactly a year before the Frank family went into hiding – the film captures the wedding day of the girl who "lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39.

[IrishCatholic]

Same thing occurred to me. It could have been any downtown neighborhood. It has been too easy to think of it in terms of battlefield photography in black and white.
Change the look of the cars and it could be today.

[NavyCanDo]

Let us also remember all the young Germans who joined The White Rose - the 9/12 movement of its day.

Young people with their whole lives ahead of them who chose to put those lives on the line to speak up against tyranny.

The most known was a beautiful German girl names Sophie Scholl.

Here is a GREAT movie about her last 4 days of life.

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Sophie Scholl was executed by guillotine by the Third Reich after she was arrested and found guilty of distributing anti-Nazi leaflets at her college campus and for this she was beheaded along with several of the other brave young God-fearing people of the “White Rose”, an underground Nazi resistance movement. This is a dramatization of that event, it is a movie that will not leave you and will have you thinking about it for days after viewing. I highly recommend this film. I found myself drawn into this movie like few other movies will do. This is brilliant stuff. The tension becomes almost unbearable. The depiction of Freisler (The judge), which might seem over the top, but is quite consistent with accounts and actual film clips of the trial, maybe even understated. He was diabolical, tyrannical and very hot tempered.

Watch the Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjE020YHPkE

Tribute to The White Rose (Tissue Alert)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkoJgPkFoDs&feature=related

[Moe Tzadik]

[sionnsar]

What worries me also is the neat clean orderly streets and carefully maintained buildings. If such a horror could occur in that environment what can we have festering in streets where people do not care enough to take care of the street where they live.

Not that it makes one bit of difference but that footage was filmed in Amsterdam, not Frankfurt where she was born. Amsterdam was occupied territory then, but I am certain that Frankfurt was every bit as tidy.

If you ever get a chance, read the book "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945" by Milton Mayer. It CAN happen here. If we permit it.

[Carley]

If you want some comfort about the world at that time read

A Conspiracy of Decency
The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II

95% of the jewish population survived

When the jews came back to their homes, the homes had been taken care of by their neighbors. Their pets were cared for. It’s a story about the goodness of man. The people that Ann Frank believed existed in the world.

[Niuhuru]

The Nazis were addicted to perfection at all times. That is how the Holocaust happened and that is how abortion happens. Addiction to a perfection that never has and never will exist. They were methodical about it and they had sickeningly created a spiffy way of doing it.

The whole thing was systematic and methodical. The vomit inducing part is that they applied their scientific skill and remarkable self discipline to all this evil.

[Right Wing Assault]

It's silent, in black and white, and only 20 seconds long...

First line of the article.

[21twelve]

That’s ANOTHER thing - I think I need to fix the color on my monitor! ;) (Please note the winky thing this time!)

That site is pretty interesting, epecially the online interactive 3D museum, but I’ll need to spend more time with that to see if it is really up and running. I was just watching the previews.

The interview with Otto (her dad) was also interesting about him reading her diary long afterwards, and not realizing how thoughtful and serious she was. And, even with the close relationship he had with her, he still did not fully know her.

[Do the math]

I have not cried many times in my life, but when I saw the Anne Frank movie with Ben Kingsley I could not help myself. I pray that Anne Frank and her family enjoy GOD’s love for eternity. May she and her family rest in peace.

[dfwgator]

I recall there were two movies, one with Mary Steenburgen, and the other more recent one, that actually showed Anne and Margot in the camp.

I assume you’re referring to the latter one, and yes, it was very sad.

Still to this day, the most gut-wrenching portrayal of the Holocaust was from the mini-series “War and Remembrance”. A tribute to Dan Curtis for convincing ABC to pull no punches in showing the true horror of the Holocaust. Some of those scenes will never leave you, but it should be viewed by everyone.

[Professional Engineer]

bttt

[fatima]

God bless the Frank family.I was very touched in reading her book many years ago.I often thought the souls I most wanted to meet were gone way before I had a chance to meet them, but I was bless to meet a few Saints in my time.Anne was one of the Saints I missed..

[Right Wing Assault]

Oops! Sorry, I missed it.

[giotto]

it makes me want to cry

Yes. A few fleeting moments of a life, captured forever by the camera, reveal so much about the girl. She looks down on the happy couple, calls her mother to come and look, probably dreams of her own wedding someday. Poignant and so very sad.

[kabumpo]

let’s remember all 22 of them.