Anne Frank Remembered
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- 1995
- 117 min
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She is perhaps Hitler's|best-known victim.
Her book has sold more|than 25 million copies...
...and has been translated|into at least 55 languages.
She's become a symbol of 10|million souls murdered by the Nazis...
...Jews and non-Jews...
...and, in particular, the one and|a half million innocent children.
She was just 15 when she died.
A miserable and lonely death|in a concentration camp in Germany.
Yet she is remembered|for her faith in humanity.
This is the story of the life|and legacy of Anne Frank.
In Amsterdam, some of the remnants|of a once-thriving Jewish community.
Every person in this congregation,|like Jews throughout Europe...
...has a story of their own...
...of persecution, murder,|fear or betrayal.
The rabbi spent the first|2 years of his life in hiding...
...sheltered by a Christian family.
But one girl reaches|beyond all those memories.
Hers is not just a Holocaust story,|for the voice of Anne Frank...
...stands as a warning to those|who discriminate on the basis...
...of color, culture or creed.
Her message is as fresh today|as it was 50 years ago.
The notorious Nazi propaganda film...
...The Eternal Jew.
Distorted images portraying|an Aryan nightmare...
...of the Jewish threat|to European civilization.
And this, the family Frank:
Prosperous, cultivated,|sophisticated...
...and integrated.
In fact, they were a German family.|German to the core.
The antithesis of ghetto Jews.
Anne's father, Otto,|was an officer in the German army...
The family had lived in and around|Frankfurt for generations.
But Otto had traveled the world, even|working in Macy's store in New York...
...where a college friend,|Nathan Straus, was the owner's son.
In 1925, the 36-year-old Otto|married Edith Hollander...
...a 25-year-old Jewish girl|from Aachen, Germany...
...near the Dutch border.
They honeymooned in Italy.
Their first daughter, Margot,|followed 9 months later...
...and their second, Annelies,|better known as Anne, in June 1929.
It was a good life in Frankfurt|in those early years.
One could almost forget the long|shadow of National Socialism.
But beneath the idyllic surface...
...far removed from the children's world,|turmoil.
DANGER JEWS:
Their landlord turned out to be|a Nazi party member.
And in March 1931, they moved.
The bank owned by the family|also had serious problems...
...resulting in its complete|collapse in 1933...
...caused by Otto's brother|being the victim of a fraud...
...and the effects of the Depression,|particularly acute in Germany.
And, of course, the threat|of the gathering storm.
On the streets...
...at the rallies...
...and finally in January 1933...
...the ballot box.
ONE LEADER:
For it is often forgotten that Hitler|gained power in a democratic election.
For the Franks,|the German dream was over.
Some of the family|had moved to Switzerland.
Otto chose to try his luck in Holland...
...where he had|prior business connections.
In autumn 1933, the family settled|here in Merwedeplein...
...a modern housing development|in South Amsterdam.
They established a settled and full|existence amongst German refugees...
...and Dutch neighbors.
We moved into the same neighborhood|as the Frank family.
Many other refugees moved there.
And so there was a little bit|of a German-Jewish enclave...
...by no means a ghetto,|but just a little enclave.
Quite often parents would speak|German in the street...
...which annoyed us|children terribly, of course.
Hanneli Goslar
My father was a deputy minister|in the interior.
And he was the chief|of the press in Germany.
He had really a very high position.
And he immediately fled...
...when the whole|government stepped down.
And, okay, we went|to England before...
...but he didn't find a job where|he didn't have to work Shabbat.
And so we stopped here|in Merwedeplein.
Life for Jewish refugees...
...as I experienced it as a young|child, in a way had its charms.
What I particularly enjoyed was that|we adapted faster than our parents.
Our parents had to|turn to us and ask us...
...what's done in this country.
And I found this|tremendously democratizing.
I really enjoyed that part very much.
The Franks formed an active social life|amongst the other refugee families.
For visitors, Anne's behavior|made the Sunday gatherings...
...something of an ordeal.
She was just what|you could call naughty.
She had to sit on a table where|everything was very beautiful...
...in a beautiful dress and have|her chocolate not spoil it.
Isa Baschwitz
She just didn't want to.
She got up and she made fuss,|and she...
...drew attention.
And then she grew angry.
And that angriness...
...that was the problem|between the parents.
Mother Frank said, "You sit down."
"Leave the child alone.|She's so small and she's so little."
So she was allowed to do|the things she wanted.
Every time that girl was naughty...
...was impertinent,|later on, really impertinent.
I remember very strongly|that Mr. Frank...
...was seen as an ideal daddy,|that he was the daddy...
...because he was so much involved|in his girls' education.
He fixed his wife breakfast on Sunday|morning and brought it to her bedside...
...which was unheard of in our circles.|So that news made the round:
"Mr. Frank does this for his wife!|How great."
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.
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