Anne Frank has channel on YouTube

[Omaha Steve]

Video: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/10/15/anne.frank.museums.web/#cnnSTCVideo

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/10/15/anne.frank.museums.web/#cnnSTCText

By Callie Carmichael
CNN

(CNN) -- Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who detailed her thoughts and her family's life while hiding in an attic from the Nazis in Amsterdam, can now be seen in rare video that has been posted on the Internet.


Anne Frank got a diary as a gift shortly before her family went into hiding from the Nazis.


The only known footage of Frank, who died in a concentration camp weeks before World War II ended, can be seen on a special YouTube channel run by the Anne Frank Museum.

The channel manager, Ita Amahorseija, said the virtual museum was created "to not only give back to the people who know the story of Anne Frank, but to trigger people to want to know more about her story."

In the silent black-and-white footage, the 12-year-old diarist can be seen as she leans out the window of her home to watch her newly married neighbor leave the apartment building on July 22, 1941. Watch the video: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/10/15/anne.frank.museums.web/#cnnSTCVideo

That newlywed couple gave the film to Anne's father after the war.

Other videos show the chestnut tree that Anne saw every day from her window and the church bells that rang while she was in hiding. She mentions both of these in her diary.

Otto Frank can be heard on the site, talking about his daughter's diaries in a video excerpt made in the late 1960s before his death. He said she talked about and criticized many things, but he learned her real feelings only by reading her diary.

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1. K and R. (nt)

[Maccagirl]

2. The footage is chilling because it's so "normal"

You almost want to shout "Be careful...this is what's going to happen to you.".

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3. Oh my god, you are so right.