Anne Frank Video – The only known live Anne Frank video has been released for the public to view and the images are chilling.
This Anne Frank video shows the young Jewish girl leaning out the window of her apartment window in Amsterdam about a year before her family went into hiding to avoid persecution on the Jews by the Nazis.
The date of the Anne Frank video is July 21, 1941.
Anne Frank died in 1945, about 4 years after the date of this Anne Frank Video.
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October 5th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
chilling, and heartbreaking.
October 5th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I am touched, yet heartbroken to see this brief but no less heartfelt video of Anne Frank. On my many trips to Europe (lived in England for 10 years) I went to Anne Frank’s hiding place and was equally as touched and heartbroken by what I saw!
I have read her book many times and each time, it teaches me something new about this lovely and gifted girl. Thank goodness she left part of herself behind so that we may experience her life as well.
God Bless you Anne!
October 5th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
i love this images theree are wonderful of how her life was and how that world look in her time so people could put themselfs in her shoes
October 5th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
i think this is a wonderful thing because there are lots of people who would love to see how she lived and how was the world in her time so they can feel the same way she did
October 5th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Why is this video chilling? Is there something left out the 20 seconds I watched?
October 5th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
holly crap man that is awsome
October 5th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I wept when I saw the video.
How sad and such an awful waste of a promising young life of a beautiful girl.
October 5th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I have followed this story forever and it has always been dear to my heart in many ways.
I believe as a little girl she has touched all our souls and will live forever in our hearts and thoughts.
October 5th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
This video was taken in 1941? Did they have video cameras in those days?
October 5th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
The video was absolutly stunning. I have alsways been touched by anything relative to Anne. I am a christian, and pray always for all the victims. But Anne has always touched my heart like so many others….Thank you ever so much for the video,,,
October 5th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
this is so sad and cute , how could people be so mean
October 5th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
there were no videos in 1945
October 5th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Video films were around in the early 1920s, Valentino’s films were some of the highest grossing of that time.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
There definitely were capabilities of making home movies even before 1945. There are many, many film clips of Germany in that time…I know. My high school teacher must’ve showed us most of them.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
So I suppose all the movies made before 1945 don’t exist?
October 5th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
She was an old soul whos love and aditude in such circumstances was amazing…I am so glad to have read her diary. I only wish she and her family and millions of Jews in germany had left sooner.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
If there were no videos in the 40’s how did we get all the videos of WWII and Hitler? Of course, there were videos. Obviously just for special occasions as was with this wedding Anne was watching.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
There was video in 1945. It was called an 8mm movie camera. The story of Anne Frank should never be forgotten. If you forget history, you’re doomed to repeat it. The history of the Holocost should never be repeated.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
This film was transferred to video because at that time the cameras were all mainly silent film anyway. Also this film is so chilling because it even took so long to find this much of the remarkable girl. I transfer 8mm to dvd all the time
October 5th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Of course there was video in 1941. Don’t be ignorant.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Thomas Edison invented film for videos decades before WWII
October 5th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Astonishing absolutly astonishing! Anne was a promising and beautiful young girl with such Life and hope. I am reading the story to my children as my mom read it to me so that they may see that life is precious! She was such a talented and amazing person!
October 5th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
You idiots. If there were no video cameras in 1941, how was the Wizard of Oz released in 1939?
October 5th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
It was shot ON FILM you dumbass. It has been transferred to video, now digital. God Americans can be so stupid its painful.
Whats chilling about it? Well, look how everything looks matter of fact and all sunny and normal. Now think about what is yet to come. Look out your own window one day, see the everyday goings on-one day it might not look quite the same either.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I am really touched by this video, and I think of the many kids and teens that had to endure this horrendus time of nazi persecution, losing their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, etc. The holocaust is a shame for the humanity and it should be imprinted in the memories of all of us so we never ever repeat a barbarie like this in the name of racial cleaning or any other stupid excuse.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Hello? To respond to questions/comments on video cams in the 40’s, there WAS something prior to video cams: they were ‘moving cameras’!
And in response to Eldon’s insensitive question above: it doesn’t bother you to see a young girl full of life and know what her fate is/was? Are you a skinhead or Neo Nazi or what?!
It seems like this all happened a very long time ago, yet it’s interesting to observe how relatively contemporary the neighborhood and people appear. I was born a mere 3 years after Anne’s death. The world cannot forget the inhumanity and horror of Nazi reign.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
No kidding there were no “videos” in 1941. This is a converted film. Sorry, no conspiracy here.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
The movies were not called “video” and I have film that is from 1947 which my father took of our family. I don’t remember all of the technical jargon, but they were hand held cameras and I have boxes of small reels of film and the projector and screen to show the home movies.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
There may not have been “videos” in 1945 but there were certainly films so, this could definitely be authentic.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
The same people that are still rejecting evidences will always denying the holocaust… Yes! It does have videos, and much more to proof how hateful were the nazis against the jews.
I’m glad that they were able to use the technology to bring this up and show to the world, that someone paid the price for the freedom that we have today. I’m not a Jew, but this situation could happened with any other nation if the allies had not stopped Hitler.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Who took the picture? did they know this was Ann Frank?
October 5th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Who took this picture? Did they know this was Ann frank?
October 6th, 2009 at 12:01 am
There were no vidoes, but there were moving cameras. Where do you think all the films of Hitler came from?
October 6th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Tribal warfare… political conflicts… religious wars… murder… hate… genocide… You name it, it happens every day in our world.
It will only end when all of us want it to make it stop.
Read and get to know Anne Frank and her family and introduce them to all around you. Perhaps in doing so, you will find in yourself a voice to join other voices and help create a lasting solution to end these attrocities in our world.
October 6th, 2009 at 12:29 am
There were however MOVIES made, which this is. The first movie ever made was in 1895!
October 6th, 2009 at 12:34 am
film has existed since 1909. is it anne, maybe yes and maybe no. doesn’t matter. what is wonderful is someone still remembers a precious gift from god destroyed by hate and evil. god will never forget and Israel will never forget.
October 6th, 2009 at 1:48 am
video, as oppose to audio recorders—could mean video film, video tape, video disc. there were film video cameras in 1945, and before that. newsreels were processed video recorded films.
October 6th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Just because contemporary jargon is used to describe the film, does not mean that it is not video. The whole debate is semantic drivel that distracts from the poignancy of the discovery (I suspectdeliberately). It would be archaic to call the film moving pictures. Digitized film is, indeed, video, by today’s standards. Of course people know that the images weren’t captured by contemporary means.
October 6th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
who ever said that a ,I love Hitler is a big fuckin jerk and curse you and fuck you who ever said that I love you Anne Frank no mater what anyone says
October 8th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I hope the world NEVER forgets what happened to Anne Frank and her family. The chilling thing about this is she looks like any normal 12-year-old girl excited to witness her neighbor’s having just gotten married—but within four years this girl would be dead because someone else had decided she did not have the right to live. I believe she was 15 when she died. My oldest daughter is 15 and the very thought gives me chills, that some government could decide it has the right and the power to decide who lives and who dies. Think about it—if this girl’s diaries had never been found, she would have been just another number.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:40 am
i still feel sadness at the thought of this girls short lifespan. i don’t want to take anything away from anne, but, aren’t we still doing these things today?
October 10th, 2009 at 11:41 am
yes, my first thought was “it’s not a VIDEO” and it wasn’t. It was a MOVIE, taken on film. Movies certainly were around in the 1940’s. All those great historical war films you see were shot on celluloid movie film. of course, now they have been transferred to more modern formats including video tape in many formats and of course now digital. I have family home movies that date back to the 1920’s. On vacation 4 years ago my Son shot home movies with a 16mm camera from the 1930’s which still works fine (we have the matching projector).
Certainly one of the first movies was Fred Ott’s Sneeze (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze) An 1894 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film shot by William K.L. Dickson and starring Fred Ott. It was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
In the five-second film one of Thomas Edison’s assistants, Fred Ott, takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. According to the Library of Congress, “It was filmed for publicity purposes as a series of still photographs to accompany an article in Harper’s Weekly”.
So, yes, it’s a MOVIE and a modern VIDEO has been made from it. If it were not Anne Frank, it would not be chilling or moving in any way. It would simply be a short clip from someone’s home movies from the 40’s. Anne was a typical young girl of the time, similar to thousands of others who made the best of a bad situation. the fact that her diary survived made her famous. there may have been hundreds like her who also wrote diaries that simply did not survive. Certainly she is an inspiration for many, and it is very significant that her story survived, but remember many more may have had very similar stories. We should however be thankful that at least her story survived so we can learn from it.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:29 am
This short film is a treasure,because it’s the only one we have of Anne.I’m sure there are experts out there who will be able to analyze this and either prove or unprove whether this indeed is Anne Frank.
It looks like Anne to me and when I viewed it I felt it was more eerie than chilling….just because we know what was going to happen to all those innocent men,women & children.
I’ve read every book I could find on Anne Frank and now I feel like I want to read them all again.
Peace~
October 15th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
this is not new. IT has been around for many years. I am 44 years old and saw this 8 mm film clip when I was in my 20’s.