Inside Anne Frank's Real Home

Anne Frank's Other House (2007): The Frank Family's home in Amsterdam is being restored by the Anne Frank Foundation
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The tiny annex where Anne Frank and her family hid during the war is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Holland. But a few streets away stands her real family home 37 Merwedeplein.
In 2004, the house was bought by the Anne Frank foundation. It was inhabited by squatters and full of junk , recalls the architect. Their first task was restoring the house to the 1930s. Using descriptions found in Anne s letter, restorers painstakingly recreated Anne s furniture. Then a receipt was donated showing Otto Frank kept up the rent for a year after they went into hiding. He hoped the family would move back after the war.
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[@OGNOT001]

Is so sad that her father even paid rent in advance in hopes they will go back again after the war :(

[@stargirl.xoxo._]

i know right its so sad

[@ohemgee7993]

they even forgot about THE CAT

[@j.bbunny7530]

@@ohemgee7993 I'm sure they did because they were worring about DYING

[@ohemgee7993]

@@j.bbunny7530 FACTS BUT STILL

[@shinakakagauki4255]

@@ohemgee7993 the cat probably escaped by itself

[@purberri]

It should be a museum, not having strangers living there and smoking!

[@pianotiles4472]

the annex is already one but they shouldn’t smoke there

[@johnhulse6496]

If i own or rent a house i am free to do what the hell i want. Smoke on bro

[@peighton-ln9li]

John Hulse Not in that annex that is disrespectful to the Frank Family, but yeah in YOUR HOUSE you can.

[@benni1023fm]

Mr. Frank smoked a pipe , Mr. Van Daan (sp?) smoked cigarettes in the annex. But whatever.

[@nbognar]

It’s a residential area so it would probably disturb the locals a lot. Luckily, the apartment is open to the public once a year, on May 4.

[@stephens42]

I wish they found Margot ' s diary to see a diffrent outlook

[@letxlove]

Actually, in her diary she talks about how Margot asked if she could read her diary, and that Anne could read hers. Anne said only some things but not all of it. So it sounds like she actually did, but who knows.

[@leongrden8112]

@Catherine H. she has they talked about their diarys and asked each other if they can read each other diary. Sry for en

[@user-qw9sq3gc3y]

Catherine H. Margot has a diary but it was not found after war

[@Huggins240]

@Kenneth Sloan Sorry, Kenneth, you're wrong. Check out the Institute for Historical Review article by Robert Faurisson. *_"One reason for skepticism about the famous diary attributed to Anne Frank is the existence of strikingly different samples of handwriting supposedly written by her within a two and a half year period. My first work about the Anne Frank diary was published in French in 1980. A translation of it appeared in the Summer 1982 issue of The Journal of Historical Review under the title "Is the Diary of Anne Frank Genuine?" (pp. 147-209). A facsimile reprint of this article was published as a booklet by the Institute for Historical Review in 1985. Two samples of handwriting attributed to Anne Frank appeared on the front cover and on page 209. Each was written when she was about 13 years old, but strangely enough, the earlier one (dated 12 June 1942) looks much more mature and "adult-like" than the sample which was supposedly written four months later (dated 10 October 1942). In response to growing skepticism about the authenticity of the famous diary, the State Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam (Rijksinstituut voor Orloogsdocumentatie or RIOD) published a book in 1986 which includes a facsimile of a letter supposedly written by Anne dated 30 July 1941. The discovery in the USA of some more samples of Anne's handwriting was announced in July 1988. This includes two letters dated 27 and 29 April 1940 and a postcard that was sent with one of the letters, all written to an ll-year-old penpal in Danville, Iowa. These letters create a new problem for the State Institute for War Documentation because the handwriting on them is quite different than the "adult" handwriting of her letter of 30 July 1941 as well as most of the purported diary manuscript. These discoveries strengthen my belief that the "adult handwriting attributed to Anne is, in reality, very likely the handwriting of one of the persons who officially "helped" Otto Frank prepare the diary for publication just after the war."_* If you read the article, you will actually see that the dominant handwriting in Anne's diary was *_not_* Anne's.

[@kristinaclark764]

Meip has a biography. It shows another view point of what happened Very interesting.

[@renleanne3804]

Her home should be preserved as a museum and historic landmark. I'm angry that it's used for people to live in. If one of them destroys it, Annes history is lost.

[@D__03]

It's kind of beautiful to me that it's used for writers in need of a safe place to stay. That's honouring the history of the house and Anne. The annex is a museum already. Do we really need two? Think about what's more important.

[@coombeslauren]

Sadly the idea of using it as museum isn't really sustainable. It's a residential area, there are people living all around it, it would be hugely inconvenient to have the flat constantly surrounded by so many people. In any case there isn't really anything left of Anne there. All her history, including childhood, is displayed at the Prinsengracht museum.

[@nbognar]

It’s still a residential area like back then. The Anne Frank House is downtown amongst office buildings, fair enough, but opening their home to the public would disturb the residents in the area. They do allow the public to visit the apartment on special occasions, though. I visited on May 4 this year on the day of the ‘Remembrance of the dead’ in the Netherlands.

[@sparx180]

Ren Leanne What history?

[@purpl3lina]

Catherine H. 🤣 and you are a clueless twit.

[@ChocoBabiChan]

A lot of children died as a result of the war. But if it weren't for Anne's diary, we wouldn't have any idea of how it was for them.

[@carolinebergin4633]

Yes just like now in this pandemic we have to remember what is was like for everyone and ourselves so that nothing like this happens again. To create a brighter and beautiful future. It look me so long to realize that

[@joannaflowers5563]

This pandemic is peanuts compared to the Holocaust. Not even close to being similar.

[@carolinebergin4633]

@@joannaflowers5563 it’s like my dad always said to me every event in history is different and has different stories to tell these things are terrible but it’s comforting to know how people overcame their hard times in their own way

[@normamimosa5991]

Anne Frank's diary is very revealing, of course, of her situation. Most of the children who died were not able to go into hiding. Many of them, as adults, have spoken about their experiences, and their testimony is online. Also, the documentation and historical evidence is massive. People must know the full truth, not just from Anne Frank's diary.

[@RamdomRando]

@@carolinebergin4633 the pandemic doesn’t come close to hidding like anne frank did, in the pandemic at least people could go out to buy groceries and we had lot’s of entertainment from streaming services, music, etc. Anne and her family had to keep as quiet as possible (keep in mind they were above where there was workers and wooden creaky floors), couldn’t flush the toilet for hours and was shared with 8 people, had to ration food and sometimes eat nasty preserved food for days or weeks at a time, couldn’t see a doctor if they got sick all that and more for 2 and a half years.

[@raniyam4975]

The fact he paid for an year in advance.. the fact that they had hope...How it all went from worse to worst... Its just ...🥺 And the fact that there are people like this in this world in the present as well ... People are suffering.. dying.. 😞

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

Blame the communists.

[@downunderlady7668]

I agree with ya both because these men who most of the Jews in the constrayion camps should be ashamed of themselves I wonder what uhey would do if they had to it they had to in a conctradyipn camp ????i suppose beg for mercy well to me they don’t deserve it act all brcaausr they were were Ali Lao English radio

[@patricialarsen7762]

i wish that anne frank would lived longer

[@downrightdelinquents9153]

Patricia Larsen Me too sister, it was only 1 or 2 or even days after she died that the camp she was in was over.

[@lucywalsh7135]

Meg Griffin that's so sad, if only she'd been able to hang on longer😔💔

[@downrightdelinquents9153]

Lucy Walsh I know its heartbreaking but whats even more heartbreaking is that otto frank (her father) lost his whole family and had nothing but pictures and a diary left of them...

[@SmogFTW]

Meg Griffin Shut up meg.. JK! But seriously though, did that really happen?

[@sweeteric76]

Wake, I believe it was a month after her death

[@annadonenko8544]

It's so nice to see Anne looking outside.

[@normamimosa5991]

Yes. Isn't that amazing! The wonders of the internet!

[@Titanic_401]

I wish some random guy wasn't living there. This house would also make a great museum.

[@DarkAngel-yz9zi]

*like*

[@edekpawlik]

Titanic - But the house is quite small

[@coombeslauren]

Sadly a museum isn't really an option. It sits in a very normal residential neighbourhood, and it would be a huge daily disruption for the people living in the area to be constantly surrounded by hundreds of people lining up outside as 263 Prinsengracht is.

[@alexgabi5080]

No

[@nbognar]

It’s still a residential area like back then. The Anne Frank House is downtown amongst office buildings, fair enough, but opening their home to the public would disturb the residents in the area. They do allow the public to visit the apartment on special occasions, though. I visited on May 4 this year on the day of the ‘Remembrance of the dead’ in the Netherlands.

[@blueberryriver3220]

It would have been very sad for Mr Frank as he was the only one to survive I believe . Imagine coming home alone knowing all your loved ones were dead .

[@ANGELBABY_57]

@rach d I could be wrong but it feels like after reading your words that you may be related to the Franks am I wrong just curious not being a smart butt or anything like that

[@ladansamooty581]

I don't need to imagine it; I'm somewhat undergoing it myself.

[@Incognitofrito1]

@@ladansamooty581 Same here. Most of my family have died except 2 out of state who are busy w/their own lives. I had a career 25 years but was diagnosed & knocked flat on my butt physically...literally...when I found out I've developed a rare autoimmune disease where my body no longer makes its own immune system anymore. Because of risk of infections, I'm literally quarantined like a prisoner living alone in a townhouse. I'm under Palliative care/Hospice at home but insurance doesn't cover them coming but twice a month. The next step will be to admit me in-patient to Hospice. What I have has no cure. Anyway, I LOVE history & have always admired Anne Frank so much. The Diary of Anne Frank has always been one of my all-time favorite books. It's EXTREMELY difficult for an extroverted person to be cooped up within walls 24/7. I was always veeery extroverted so I would know. 😒 I have to live with alot of fears but at least I don't have to fear Nazis seizing me, my whole family & being executed. Anne had SO much potential but she packed a punch of many lifetimes during her short time on Earth. May she & all the other victims of WWII rest in peace. 🙏 ✝ ❤

[@libertyann439]

She lived such a short life yet had such a big effect on history.

[@heathergall6431]

This was very moving. They were just normal people living a normal life - the Frank family. And these MONSTERS just came n took it all away from them. Their simple treasures that meant so much to them. And for what? For WHAT??

[@simonejhonson781]

Heather Gall hatred

[@Verdelufe]

Bruno56 - Enough of idiocy, don´t change the subject Mr. Dodgy. You got a F in War History. Read more before posting.

[@vaporrimmune441]

Heather Gall have you not learned this before?

[@sonicthehedgehogfan4758]

Im not being rude but what would it benifit us? Its someone we dont know and she wouldnt be famous and well know if she didnt die. Rip anne and the franks

[@zMisterT]

The monsters were the British and Poles who started this bloody war.

[@TheHaydock91]

This documentary was so interesting. I was just upset that they had restored the house and the guy is sat smoking in it :(

[@needledbugs]

Laurie Huntley do you not understand what that house’s worth? For gods sake it was Anne Frank’s! It’s a part in HISTORY

[@chickennrice2473]

{Honey} well one of the guys that lived with Anne frank smoked tobacco all the time in that house

[@roxanne_]

Chickennrice does it matter he probably wouldn’t know how much that house costs now and would probably never go there again! He survived the holocaust of course....but idk if he was still alive when the war ended,

[@axkela]

@@chickennrice2473 Yeah before they all died and everything...

[@Lulu-Walker]

@@chickennrice2473 that was before the house got an historical value. The future guests of that house have the moral duty of looking after the property.

[@shimmershine2731]

This day I've been watch anime movie the title is "Anne Frank diary"

[@teachersuzie7853]

I just watched a while ago

[@ojaswiishani372]

Hey me too. Just finished it.

[@kamiiu]

me too

[@laximachoudhary9679]

me tooo

[@auronnyagangopadhyay7104]

YESTERDAY

[@arlenecruz662]

I SALUTE THE PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT OF RESTORING THE MEMORIES OF A SMART GIRL WHO LIVED AMIDST A GRIM REALITY...

[@katrielrhinehart4196]

Arlene Cruz it was actually mostly Otto Frank

[@sicah8898]

@@sparx180 moron

[@sparx180]

@jennie in Michigan You are the stupid one. What looked out the window, hid in the closet, looked at my parents having sex, took a shit. What is there to write about? Think about it!

[@BetsyH]

@@sparx180 You are nasty and obviously have no life.

[@summertriangle4745]

@@sparx180 booh! Booh!!!

[@mousekander2232]

Its disgusting that they go to this effort just to let some random live there and SMOKE INSIDE wtf are they thinking

[@cb4252]

Anne s father literally smoked in there 😐 the annex is a museum already get over yourself.

[@MoonkissedMintakan]

Mouse Kander: Amen 🙌❣

[@H.Singh_PreetVerka]

I love this book, I can't stop thinking about Anne Frank's life. Today I read last page of this book and I am very sad.

[@Prince_Yonte]

Yea reading the end is hard. Knowing its the end.

[@lanarayphole177]

God bless you for restoring her home. This moved me to tears.

[@nenegrey2282]

@Unoraza2 Anne wrote on her diary with a fountain pen, a pen that uses wet ink, invented in 1827. As Otto later edited the diary and put together all of Anne's papers, he used a ballpoint pen to write notes here and there (not on the diary, on separate scraps of paper). By the way, the ballpoint pen was first sold in 1938, so Anne's family could have owned one. But anyway, fountain pens were very common back then, so I don't understand why you say pens didn't exist.

[@fjodorhaka7095]

Is good book anna number one

[@Aqu181]

can you sub to my channel

[@ritaroad]

When I was about 11 we lived near the corner of Dickens and Kimball in Chicago. As was the custom then our neighborhood had a commerce area on Armitage. There was a Rexall drug store, bakery, grocer, gift shop, cinema etc. My other and I were in the drug store and on a revolving rack I saw a paperback, Diary of a Young Girl. I asked my mother to buy it for me. That book spoke to me and educated me. I am now nearing 64. At 60 my husband and I went to live in Paris for three months. We went to Amsterdam and I was privileged to enter and see the Frank hiding place. It was an experience that my 11 year old self would never have dreamed could come true...standing where Anne once stood.

[@rebeccagutierrez1960]

Thank you for sharing your story. I, too, am a Chicagoan of Puerto Rican parents. We lived on Crystal Street (Crystal and Holman.) I am almost 60 years old.

[@cavlizzy]

I got to be an Expat in Belgium for several years and we got to travel a lot (esp. on weekends.) So we went to Amsterdam a lot on Saturdays (to see everything including the Anne Frank Huis). We also got to see the Corrie Ten Boom house in Haarlem, Netherlands ("The Hiding Place" was a 1970's movie based on their Christian story saving Jews) My kids got to hop into the "hiding place" and ring the secret bell.

[@AfricancoolChic]

@@cavlizzy Reading this in bed in Belgium and enjoying all your remarkable stories.

[@cavlizzy]

@@AfricancoolChic Thank you! You are so lucky! It was the best time of my life!! We lived in Overijse to be near the Int'l School of Brussels for our kids. Belgium is fabulous and I miss it everyday.Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, etc.. SO much history, art, and things to do. It was the experience of a lifetime. I would love to retire there!! (if possible?) and this is coming from a life long "Texan" 😊 Except for the "registration Commune office" everyone there is just as friendly as the people in Texas (Lol) But that is my fault for not being able to speak Dutch.

[@AfricancoolChic]

@@cavlizzy Oh the commune hasn't changed, still a real menace to all expats. 😣 Belgium really is the most quirky and offbeat place I've ever lived.. I too don't speak the language, so bad of me. Luckily my kids do. I'm a born and bred Brit (Londoner), and I'm so happy to be living in Belgium. Do come back to Belgium if you get a chance. Still as quaint and artsy as ever. 👍😄

[@tylerfox7269]

Don't think that random stranger should be in there smoking of all things!! It will make the house stink!! And ruin furniture - can it not be opened as museum??!!!

[@Titanic_401]

How is he a nazi?

[@D__03]

The annex is a museum already. I think that's enough. This house serves a good purpose in a different way: offering writers who need a place to stay *today* .

[@yoli5779]

I agree with Tyler. Yeah but there should be rules, I wouldn't allow smoking.

[@nbognar]

It’s still a residential area like back then. The Anne Frank House is downtown amongst office buildings, fair enough, but opening their home to the public would disturb the residents in the area. They do allow the public to visit the apartment on special occasions, though. I visited on May 4 this year on the day of the ‘Remembrance of the dead’ in the Netherlands.

[@pointyblackhat9045]

Tyler Fox - it could possibly be that the US has drastically different anti-smoking policies than practically any where else in Europe. I always have to take extra emergency inhalers and asthma meds with me (allergic to smoke) because everyone smokes! So maybe they just didn’t think it was a big deal. I don’t know, it was just a thought.

[@58Grov]

My Father lived down the street from Anne Frank. He knows this street very well. Today he is 91.

[@barbarastedillie1336]

It would’ve been nice to have a detailed tour of the house after renovation that included information about the restoration, how accurate floor plan, furniture and colors of the house. Missed opportunity...

[@Lulu-Walker]

You can find here in KZbin the tour of the house already restored.

[@janet4900]

I know. I was expecting for them to show the house after it was restored, but all they did was tell us it was, without showing it on the camera.

[@Elizabeth-ow9gx]

i feel like the people who helped the Franks hide are not given enough credit. if the Gestapo found out they were being helped, not only would the Franks have been sent to a concentration camp, but so would the people who helped them.

[@jensmom604]

That's what happened, idiot.

[@BetsyH]

@@jensmom604 You could have left off idiot, you idiot

[@nbognar]

Miep was not arrested because - luckily - she was Austrian like the arresting officer in charge and he did not arrest his fellow countryman. Bep managed to leave the building during the arrest just in time. Kleiman and Kugler were arrested and sent to prison and several Dutch camps but survived.

[@nbognar]

rach d I’ve already read it. Kleiman urged Bep to leave the building and go to the pharmacy on the corner. Miep warned Jan when he arrived and he left.

[@nbognar]

rach d Johannes Kleiman succeeded in sending Bep away. He wanted her to take his wallet to a pharmacist, who would then inform Kleiman's wife that things had gone wrong on the Prinsengracht. Bep was able to leave the building unhindered, as no one stood guard outside. She delivered the wallet and started wandering the streets, not knowing what to do. Only by the end of the afternoon did Bep return to the Prinsengracht. Jan Gies came by to have lunch with the people in hiding, as he often did. Miep warned him about the presence of the police officers and Jan immediately left and went back to his place of work. He decided to go to the brother of helper Johannes, who worked on the Bloemgracht, near the hiding place. Together, they walked to the bridge on the other side of the canal, from where they saw the people from the Secret Annex and their helpers getting into the police van.

[@NostalgicChannel]

Never forget. R.I.P Anne Frank and her family.

[@kathryneb9555]

My husband and I lived in The Hague for 3 years (2002-2005) and loved it. As a teenager, I read the Anne Frank diary and was awed that I visited the museum- twice. This is the first I've heard and seen something about restoring her childhood home. That is quite awesome and the fact that writers can stay there. I realize smoking is personal decision, however, I feel that smoking inside that apartment shouldn't be allowed.

[@kiereluurs1243]

Smoking is dumb and anti social. We pay their medical bills too.

[@normamimosa5991]

Indeed. I was SHOCKED when I saw that. It was mentioned that the foundation bought the whole building. It would have been much, much wiser to have set up a next-door apartment for the writers.

[@ranatangboo1185]

They should of had assign saying NO SMOKING...that guy spoiled it for me...thete be another way too preserve that place...its of historical importance

[@karin9670]

Why restore and rent to a smoking guy? Does he know our history. Should be kept as a memorial!

[@rofiniabayonne6364]

Wtf it the frank history not yours or mine

[@o.344]

She just means that Anne is part of the Dutch history.

[@morningst4r713]

Looks like the guy has never heard of Anne Frank either. You can see it in his eyes; he’s just there to freeload, and indulge in his own pleasures. 😠

[@ladystonefox]

@@morningst4r713 how dare a brown person have pleasure?!

[@satorii_2060]

@@ladystonefox don't judge a person by skin color! Honestly...

[@veronicam2942]

I see these old photos before the war, and I shudder to think what their future holds. 😢

[@jeromejackson6111]

It never ceases to amaze me , how ignorant & insensitive people can be. This fact is well illustrated in the comment section. If, you don't have anything constructive or enlightening to add to the discussion. Then please leave your reprehensible comments off the page. May Anne & her family as,well, as all those who lost their lives find eternal rest and peace, In God's loving arms. You will never be forgotten.

[@Gamers-xi3bl]

Wow that is incredible that they were able to find the last receipt that Otto Frank had for a rent payment and low and behold that's today's date that I am watching this video, July 1st, just completely different years. :D

[@yoli5779]

and a year later, June 30th, me, weird.

[@fartdonkey8290]

@@yoli5779 and me on October 22st, weird

[@Moon-zx8hf]

@@fartdonkey8290 im watching on 13 March 2021

[@rave_bae]

I had the opportunity to see Anne Franks hiding place. And saw her original diary in a case. No photos were allowed to be taken at the time I was there. some of they're photos left up on the walls,.. really sad and i can't imagine what it was like for her as a child. yet I could feel the terror they had to endure during that time of hiding from the Nazis :/

[@samridhi4719]

wow thats huge! what is your profession?

[@torehaaland6921]

I would say the diary makes it possible to imagine what it was like-that is why it is so valuable and such a strong document. If you hanven't read it-do it. If you already have-do it again as in that case you have missed a lot of it. It is all in there.

[@MemosaS]

So, you have the honor and opportunity to live 1 year rent free in an expensively and lovingly preserved, remodeled & redecorated historical and memorial Anne Frank Amsterdam home that’s full of rare and expensive antique furniture and first thing you do after moving in is to smoke it all up?! Seriously????

[@shaunbat3285]

Great restoration work!! "No Smoking"

[@Choices2aa]

The only picture of Anne Frank alive and she was watching a wedding. She was an amazing person!

[@brunetteone4082]

I agree. She seemed to be so full of life !!

[@artisthusnatalal3099]

*Who's watching in 2020?!*

[@amnaalneaimi9222]

2021

[@artisthusnatalal3099]

@@amnaalneaimi9222 😂😂😂

[@thatssodaisy3276]

2021

[@juanitacastillo8637]

2022

[@sumis4120]

That rent receipt part had me choking...! Really really sad!

[@sharjo52]

Wonderful! She was a amazing little girl! God is keeping her safe in his arms🙏🏽 Evil will never overcome good!

[@izabelamaria1400]

Anne and her first cousin from Switzerland look so much alike!

[@claraderrick6089]

I always admired this young girl. Always will. I wasn’t born at this time. My mother was 15 years old in another part of the world. America. American born. Everytime I think I had it have it hard. I think of Ann Frank. She had it way worse than I. She didn’t get to live to marry. Have children and watch them grow up. To have grandchildren. To watch them grow up. I just come to tears everytime I think of her and her family. I try and think what she could’ve done with her life. So many things. So so sad she died months before the war ended. It was meant to be I think. Why? To show the world what Jews in huffing had to go through. So much. Plus the people that hid them.

[@snoozyq9576]

I think you are right. Her story is so powerful. Hopefully the power of her story will help keep this from ever happening again. Although something similar seems to be happening in China 😖

[@LisaMarie51968]

Bless you for restoring it, it’s a very special place ❤️

[@manualvillacana3949]

They really didn't show much after it was restored

[@Napp28]

What a great project of historic preservation. I was curious about their home prior to 1942 when they went into hiding. Looks like a great middle class dwelling. How strange for ppl to have later lived in this flat and not knowing they were in the location of a very historic situation. If only walls could talk - imagine the anxiety in this flat the morning when, they left for the last time. Leaving their cat and a fake note on the kitchen table with an address in Switzerland - was probably the last action within this home as they shut the door.

[@lupedominguez9802]

I love Anne FRANK i can't stop thinking about her life

[@iant419]

Why? Do you realise her story was fabricated? Her diary was released publicly with one major problem. It was written in ball point pen 20 years before it was invented. 😳 Sneaky Rabbi

[@machomadness9027]

Rusty Shackleford it’s possible that it may be fabricated

[@itziebitz]

@@iant419 no

[@itziebitz]

@@machomadness9027 and no

[@lebensvielfaltnoautokratie4985]

The german grandmother of my Partner lose her home of the poland, and my grandmother lose her life, she was going to German west, and she is Suldetengerman, it is just Czech! It wasn´t ours fault! Sorry for my english!

[@audiovisualbooks3231]

Great work you have done. thanks for making us possible to visit her home

[@dianefulham2573]

why oh why are they allowing a person to stay there who smokes. What were they thinking. The smoke will damage the walls, furniture and will be difficult to get the smell out. Come on, people think!

[@cherriberri7161]

Diane Fulham why are renting it to anyone first place!

[@poojajaingva]

I wish the monster of war never ever returns to this world ✨🙏🏻

[@deborahking5692]

Are serious ,the world is full of monsters. But more good people, fighting the good fight .

[@carolinebergin4633]

If there was no war ever then what would we have to fight for, how would we know what true courage and hope means, and what stories would be told? Even the worst things have a silver lining in them.

[@spadeavenger8535]

Thankyou for keeping her memory alive she is my hero!

[@charlesmichael9188]

There should be a NO SMOKING rule!

[@shannon3944]

I think this is a wonderful tribute to Anne and her family; and to let it to a new writer each year gives it "new" life, affording these artists a chance at living and creating as she most likely would have. I believe Anne would be so proud to have such a memorial. Her mortal life was stolen from her, however her memory, and all the victims of her time, will never be forgotten. I have to passionately agree, there shouldn't be any smoking inside. These folks are being given a hand to help their careers, the least they can do is smoke outside!!

[@ANGELBABY_57]

@Shannon E thank you for your post :)

[@Maria7162]

It´s realy important to restore her house,so we can know how she lived before the war and their problems with the nazis,it´s very said to know that Anne ,Margot and Edith didn´t survive to come back to their house,only Otto FRank came back from the concentration camps.He lived his last years in Switzerland,helping people to read Anne´s diary all over the world,it was important in order not to forget the holocaust.

[@nannettenerenberg9267]

Thank you for your post!

[@shawskiknight]

Her history lives in her WORDS. The decorations are nice. But I've seen them, by her descriptions, time and time again. Seeing in person would be nice, BUT I am content with what she wrote. Buildings fall. Her words will live on.

[@02Nawal]

Don't know why El maadi is smoking inside the house. That's disgusting.

[@jimimmler9110]

I am so pleased to see the home restored. But I am appalled as well about the smoking. This must be strictly forbidden. If I were permitted to view the house myself I would bring my slippers.

[@invinoveritas6859]

What beast could do such a thing to such a beautiful/sensitive human being ?? I am an American of Cambodian ancestry and my heart will never stop bleeding for Anne Frank.A mass genocide also took place in Cambodia.....

[@SuperMarbelle]

I feel so badly for Otto, especially coming back after the war, to see his home and what had been. With all my sadness of people of the past who were robbed of their future, I at least feel that all who see these video's etc, carry their memories and hopefully they are in heaven knowing that they didn't die in vain. As long as there are video's and other documentaries, their life goes on in others, in their thoughts.

[@kasandramonsivaistiscareno9413]

If only they all could have lived it would have been a miracle. 😢💔

[@velvetartdecova5378]

I first visited this house (outside only) long before it was bought by this company. I'm flabbergasted to hear that there was little interest in it before hand as to me it is just as inportant as the house on Prinsengracht. There are lots of pics online now of the finished restoration but i would have loved to have seen more in this video. The house was open one day only to the public but sadly i missed it. I would love to spend some time there in contemplation but it wouldn't have the same effect if i had to share the experience with other tourists. I'm slowly turning my home back to the 30s too.

[@jessycazander1062]

This is very informative! Thanks for uploading!

[@stephaniekay7936]

I went here 10-15 years ago... wish I wasnt so young . I read her diary in school but now that I'm older I wish I could go back and revisit.

[@taniasouth]

I agree with some comments about having smoking writers in the home, it needs history lessons as a museum

[@rasclotify]

What Anne represents to me, after reading her diary is the profound loss of human potential that went wasted with the Holocaust (and WWII & WWI, heck, wars in general). Because when you read her diary, you come to realize pretty quickly how incredibly smart, crafty, and brilliant a mind she was. And she was only an adolescent! If that was one life, imagine 1,000's upon 1,000's, millions in fact of other smart creative hard working people with so much potential whom also lost their lives. The utter inhumanity of what we are at our worst. Self destructive and genocidal. At our best, we're beautiful, but at our worst? What a waste of human potential! In memory of Anne and all the other victims of the Holocaust. Never forgotten. RIP

[@torehaaland6921]

She certainly was a resource. And her tragic end coupled with her diary makes her into maybe the single most potent holocaust memorial in existence.

[@richardma264]

Poor anne frank i wish she could live a longer life and achive her dreams😞😟

[@irma7503]

In a lot of ways her dreams came true. She said “ I want to go on living even after my death “ -

[@kmm2442]

I love you journeyman pictures.

[@lionandva4ever29]

I read the book in grade school and loved it. I forgot how interested I still am in Anne frank

[@dralbertpakin8895]

It shouldn't be used for people to live in they need to keep it as a museum. Shame on them for doing so. I really enjoyed the video but not with the man living in it and smoking in it too.

[@aisforamerica2185]

the sentiment of housing a writer who's rights aren't protected at home is nice, I just think that charging admission to the house as a museum and then using the profits to donate to specific charities would have a much better affect.

[@kavitathakur1550]

A humongous thank you to all the wonderful people who went on to make this wonderful motion picture, gratitude infinite

[@thehuman2861]

There are so many smart/good people around you, who needs protection, please save them..

[@danielmcginnis5134]

0:52 now thats freeky

[@rocker76m88]

Yes that was so heartbreaking

[@organizinggenius370]

I am currently reading her diary and in her diary they say she always wanted to write a book and Otto made her dream come true. Also She was so young it was very sad.

[@edekpawlik]

Why was her fricken house on sale?? It should have like 20 security guards gaurding the house and everybody should pay like 20 bucks to get inside

[@comunidadaerea2400]

Oh my gosh. Who cares this house? Can you imagine if all the houses in Amsterdam from jews people transform in museums?

[@nbognar]

It’s still a residential area like back then. The Anne Frank House is downtown amongst office buildings, fair enough, but opening their home to the public would disturb the residents in the area. They do allow the public to visit the apartment on special occasions, though. I visited on May 4 this year on the day of the ‘Remembrance of the dead’ in the Netherlands. By the way, this area, in Amsterdam’s ‘River Quarter’, had a sizable Jewish population in the 1930’s and 40’s. Alone on the same square where the Franks lived there were several Jewish families. The Van Pels family from Anne’s diary also lived just around the corner.

[@wandajones4063]

Thanks to this group maybe it can become a remembrance to the Frank family.

[@nusratjamia7953]

Beautiful outstanding amazing Presentation... 💐😘😘😍

[@judytripp2908]

The only known real moving footage of Anne Frank on the balcony was the last and only surviving footage of Anne that there is left...very poignant.....she was beautiful...those haunted eyes,who ever could forget them? RIP Anne ,🙏❤💓💕💖💗💙💘💚💛💜💝💞💟💐🌸💮🏵🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷!

[@MrsBee-uo2lc]

Is it weird that i just want to place my hand on that letter and cry? 😔🤷‍♀️

[@carmencantwell1249]

Wow. So glad y’all restored her house. And are now using it for writers that are not free to write in their own countries. What a tribute for Anne!

[@kg1kelly]

So he is going to smoke in the house and around all the antique furniture ?

[@veronicam2942]

IKR? It’ll stink of smoke, make the walls yellow and burn cigarette holes in furniture. He could have a little respect and at least smoke outside.

[@sicah8898]

Yeah its disgraceful

[@lburns7952]

@jennie in Michigan People thought that way about the Jews as well. The Nazi's called them 'sub-human' as opposed to your 'inbred garbage'. I wonder how Anne would feel about your comment.

[@ESC-lover]

Poor Anne and her family :( and all the others.I cried when i watched this!

[@muniraz8767]

Heart touching story. Glad to know they restored it the way it was in the 30's Feel sad for anna and her tragical death. She was so full of hope and life when they were in hiding. The place should be a museum i also agree to that.

[@sr633]

A wealth of information about the Franks. I knew some ,but know I know more. Thanks.

[@takeittodehart1507]

Thank you ,I love this I would have loved to see where she lived. And wish I could have know Anne Frank

[@aisforamerica2185]

when I get my own house, I want them to revert it to the 1930s. they're really good at it!

[@tapsars7911]

I am from India and even I feel sad and disgusted that squatters had taken over this historical property .

[@amberf3599]

Thank you for allowing us to see this beautiful place.❤

[@MLeibs]

What an amazing undertaking! ❤️ Anne Frank

[@nirmalan5590]

Anne has always been in God's loving arms.😌😇

[@cloe_angel8463]

NIRMALA N this Comment made me smile

[@caesilver4947]

The thought of that always give me hope. She's fine now, at peace.

[@ladansamooty581]

Where were his arms precisely when she was rolling in her own filth ??????

[@llsaabuuseruwu]

Just imagine the pain Otto went through knowing that he had to go back home alone.

[@martythomasg]

I would like a tour of the completed restoration,

[@maggiebugden9463]

Wow! Amazing..Anne Frank's apartment restored.

[@lynnbertin8361]

Very interesting, I visited her hiding place in Amsterdam but so interesting to see this restoration.

[@missmerrily4830]

Well worth watching. Some very touching moments here.

[@amandatijerina601]

What a fascinating story! So going to share on FB.

[@Mary20457]

That is so sad. Why spend all that time choosing furniture and restoring the place to 1930 when you are going to have someone living there who is smoking and ruining everything they have done. This is not the way to preserve Anne’s memory. This is ludicrous!

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

I grew up reading Anne Fran k 's , diary. funny 40 years after she wrote it. In 1982.

[@ashyclaret]

Her dad wrote a lot of it.

[@nevermindnirvana4208]

@@ashyclaret he edited out parts he thought were inappropriate

[@autumn5852]

💕💕💕 thank you to these wonderful people ~ it restores my faith in people and makes me want to now stay in this world for as long as I have life and to strive always to do good work

[@joshx022]

So very interesting. Thanks to all involved this passing my eyes.

[@mariaelizabeth6066]

I love that it’s a writers house that concept/idea is really neat it does somewhat bother me that they spent so much time and money restoring the house and then someone smokes

[@cherriberri7161]

Very strange that after restoring Ann’s childhood home & decorating with priceless period & family heirlooms that people would be allowed to live there! It doesn’t seem right!

[@martok666le]

The former apartment of the Franks is lovingly renovated to preserve the memory of Anne and her family and then the first resident moves in and smokes. That is so disrespectful. I think Anne herself would have been angry with him.

[@OlivePittsOnDesk]

Anne Frank will live for many years, decades, centuries in the hearts of those who understand her story and the vision of true evil that looked down at her. The problems of today are of such little consequence when viewed through this history.