Anne Frank Remembered Page #2

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Otto Frank|interviewed in 1979

We left Germany in 1933...

...because I didn't want to educate|my children with blinkers.

They were not allowed to see|Christian friends anymore.

In Holland, it was different.

Upon her arrival in Amsterdam...

...the 4-year-old Anne was sent|to the Montessori school...

...where Lies Goslar|became her best friend.

Years later, in her diary,|Anne wrote this of Lies:

"Hanneli Goslar, or Lies, as she's|called at school, is a bit strange.

She's usually shy...

...outspoken at home but reserved|around other people.

She blabs whatever you tell her|to her mother.

But she says what she thinks.

And lately, I've come|to appreciate her a great deal. "

Anne and Lies' friendship had begun|on their very first day at school.

Exactly in opposite of the door...

...I saw the back of Anne, and|she was ringing these little bells.

And she turned around, and she saw me,|I saw her, and hop...

...we run each into|the arms of another.

I think my mother went away.|I didn't look at her anymore.

And this was the first day.

Since then we were together|really till the end.

Of the two sisters, I was really more|impressed with Margot than with Anne...

...for rather obvious reasons.

Margot was a year and a half older|than I am, so she was a model.

She was ladylike.|She was always composed.

She always did her homework.|She was just the ideal young lady.

I was a tomboy, so I always thought|it would be great to be like Margot.

Anne was very lively, and I didn't|need any model for that.

I was lively myself.

Besides, she was younger. You never|model yourself after a younger child.

So I know her--|All the time.

I could do that just as well.

I will start with the sentence|my mother said always.

My mother said, "God knows everything.|Anne knows everything better."

This describes Anne, you understand?|I don't know in English....

She knew everything better.

Anne was-- In America you say "spicy."|A spicy girl.

She always was friendly with the boys.|The boys liked her.

The girls liked her. She also always|was in the center of the thing.

Then she had something I never saw,|not before and not afterwards.

She could take out the socket|out of the shoulder...

...and she would sit,|and everybody looked.

And then she made out,|and knock, knock, knock.

You have to be very careful. You can|end up with an orthopedic doctor.

She liked it, and everybody was looking|at her. And then she was happy.

When he came to Holland, Otto Frank|set up the Opekta Company...

...a Dutch subsidiary of a German|concern, selling pectin...

...a substance used in making jam.

The progressive Otto had a film|produced to promote the product.

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