Anne Frank on video

[Beorn]

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The only known film footage of diarist Anne Frank has been released for the first time to a worldwide audience.
The haunting black-and-white images show the then 12-year-old schoolgirl leaning out a window in her home city of Amsterdam at the height of World War II in July 1941.
Despite clearly smiling, she looks vulnerable and alone as she stares out on to the busy street.

Soon afterwards Nazi persecution of Jews meant she and her family had to go into hiding, before she was finally captured and sent to a concentration camp where she died aged 15.
Anne Frank’s Diary, chronicling her last few years, was first published in 1947 and became an international symbol of the Holocaust.

But while Anne’s prose has moved millions across the world and plenty of still photographs have been published, few have seen the only known film of her.
The Anne Frank House, a museum dedicated to her legacy, was in possession of the film - but previously it was only accessible to those visiting the museum or watching documentaries that contained the footage.

Now, however, the museum - which is celebrating its 50th anniversary - has launched a YouTube channel as part of a virtual museum about her life.

The channel includes the 20-second video segment shot before a neighbour’s wedding - making it available around the world to anyone with an internet connection.
A clearly excited Anne can be seen watching the bride and groom heading off to Church, surrounded by friends, family and passers-by. There are few clues to the horrors to come.

‘People around the world will be able to explore the life and significance of Anne Frank through such unique images,’ a museum spokesman said.
The site contains a clip of South African anti-apartheid activist and Nobel peace prize laureate, former president Nelson Mandela, talking about the strength he had derived from Anne's diary during his own imprisonment.

The newly released channel also includes an interview with Anne’s father, Otto Frank.
He was the only member of the family to survive the war and, after returning to Amsterdam, found his daughter’s diary had been saved and got it published.
Started by Anne shortly after her 13th birthday, it chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944, not long before she perished at Germany’s Bergen-Belsen camp from typhus.

The diary was first published in Dutch in 1947. Since then it has been translated into numerous languages, and is now one of the world’s most widely read books.
The virtual, online museum will be launched on April 28 next year as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Anne Frank House museum



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I never knew there was a video reel starring Anne Frank. Pretty amazing to get a couple of seconds glance at the little girl who has held such fascination for both sides of the coin.

[Tony]

Anne Frank’s Diary, chronicling her last few years, was first published in 1947 and became an international symbol of the Holocaust.

A diary written with a bic 8 years earlier any bic were invented , a diary kept in a bank's caveau and not availabe to any scholar...:coffee:

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[Beorn]

It has been said that there are entries in the diary in ballpoint pen. Is that correct?

Question 4 on the authenticity of the diary of Anne Frank

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No, that is not correct. All the diary entries are written in various types of ink and (coloured) pencil, not in ballpoint. The document analysis by the Netherlands Forensic Institute showed that the main part of the diary and the loose sheets were written in grey-blue fountain pen ink.

In addition, Anne also used thin red ink, green and red coloured pencils and black pencil for her annotations: not ballpoint. Nevertheless, the allegation can still regularly be seen on extreme right-wing websites and elsewhere that the diary of Anne Frank is written in ballpoint pen. Sneering remarks are made about "A. Frank the ballpoint girl", and it is pointed out that the ballpoint pen only came into common use in Europe after the Second World War. The conclusion forced by this allegation is that the texts in the diary could not have been written by Anne Frank herself.

Annotation sheets

The origin of the "ballpoint myth" is the four-page report that the Federal Criminal Police Office (the Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) in Wiesbaden, which was published in 1980. In this investigation into the types of paper and ink used in the diary of Anne Frank it is stated that "ballpoint corrections" had been made on some loose sheets. The BKA’s task was to report on all the texts found among the diaries of Anne Frank, and therefore also on the annotations that were made in Anne’s manuscripts after the war. However, the Dutch investigation by the Forensic Institute in the mid-1980’s shows that writing in ballpoint is only found on two loose pages of annotations, and that these annotations are of no significance for the actual content of the diary. They were clearly placed between the other pages later. The researchers of the Forensic Institute also concluded that the handwriting on these two annotation sheets differs from the writing in the diary "to a far-reaching degree." Photos of these loose annotation sheets are included in the NIOD’s publication (see The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, 2003, pages 168 and 170). In 1987, a Mr Ockelmann from Hamburg wrote that his mother had written the annotation sheets in question. Mrs Ockelmann was a member of the team that carried out the graphological investigation into the writings of Anne Frank around 1960.

A life of its own

In short: the ‘ballpoint myth’ is easy to disprove. The careless wording of the BKA report from 1980 – a report that for the rest in no way challenges the authenticity of the diary – or at any rate its openness to several interpretations, has taken on a life of its own in extreme right-wing circles. The "ballpoint myth" is based on the simple fact that, around 1960, two annotation sheets with ballpoint writing were inserted between the original pages. These texts were written by a graphological researcher, and are not included in any edition of the diary (apart from the Critical Edition, where photos of the annotation sheets are reproduced). In July 2006, the BKA found it necessary to state in a press release that the 1980 investigation cannot be used to call the authenticity of the diary into doubt.