Otto Frank, father of Anne

First 15 minutes of this dutch documentary, made in 2010. To order a dvd of the complete movie please contact Pieter van Huystee Producties in The Netherlands: [e-mail]
As of 2018, 3000+ comments were posted. Some of the posts were plainly antisemitic. I chose not to remove the sick, disgusting and frustrated prose of those neo-nazi's because in my opinion one should not neglect the underlying warning they reveal: genocide can happen again. More so, since dictators are becoming more powerfull in recent years i.e. Trump, Putin, Erdogan and others.
As of 2022, only 1400+ comments remained, so I wonder if KZbin/ Google has removed the antisemitic comments.
David de Jongh

[@hannahfowler03]

Something that makes me so happy is the fact that he published her diary, he made her dream come true, it's so sad that she isn't here to see it

[@richardhewlett5603]

She could have gone on Oprah sob!

[@omegletrolling9283]

oh,Im here

[@horsesandponys7182]

+Anne Frank That's sick, really? You're saying you are a little girl who was killed by Nazis in the Holocaust? Sick.

[@theodorechristopoulos3130]

yea she is such a tragedy

[@NickJay]

Did he buggery! For what *possible* rhyme or reason? Preposterious.

[@bonniekahn2545]

The bravery of the Dutch citizens who helped the Franks is what redeems one's faith in humanity.

[@hanssiegling8262]

What about the sister Party of the NSDAP - the NSB in the netherlands before the war, who send tens of thousand of soldiers to Germany?

[@nbognar]

Miep Gies was actually Austrian, like Hitler. She became Dutch in 1941 when she married Jan Gies.

[@javiermori1710]

For reals..i could only hope i would have had same courage as the helpers who faced tremendous risk by hiding jews. They are the true heroes.

[@ryanjones8427]

@@nbognar I think mr Kugler wasn’t Dutch either I think he was Austrian too

[@Fcutdlady]

Miep Gies and Leslie Gold wrote Mrs Gies autobiography. It eas very intresting to read the story of the Frabk Family from another perspective . They all came out of it well as i recall .

[@jenniferweaver5370]

A history teacher of mine whilst I was 16 and we were studying the Holocaust said something that has always stuck with me in regards to the Holocaust. He said "If we forget history, then we are doomed to repeat it". Many, many times I have either been watching or reading accounts and documentaries of the Holocaust and when I have tried to discuss it with a friend or family member, I get the response of "You need to quit reading (or watching) such depressing stuff!", and my reply to them is that these are their stories, and deserve to be heard/read, and a reminder of the 'evil' that mankind can do. I refuse to turn a blind eye to this atrocity. However as of late, and with what is going on in the world; I IMO, I think that we have forgotten.

[@theunruhs1]

+Jennifer Weaver I think you are right, and have been saying the same thing. It must be talked about, read. We mustn't repeat these same atrocities again. I fear that we are on our way to it happening again.

[@Laura05123]

I get a hard time from people too for spending so much time researching history

[@ericswolgaard1808]

Your statement about the importance of remembering history is well spoken - I remember my father, who was a WWII veteran, reading a book on Nazi atrocities and him telling me that we are morally obliged to never forget what happened. Years later, after his death, I remembered this conversation and finally resolved to read The Diary of a Young Girl- the brutality and evil represented in this book are, I believe, surmounted by the nobility of the human spirit and the inner beauty of Anne Frank.

[@richardhewlett5603]

Remember what?

[@hawkie2216]

No one has forgotten it's just because no one really want to do anything about it, like genocide in Syria. We know about it yet we're not trying our hardest to stop it

[@guruforeva]

So proud of Otto Frank for publishing that diary. If it wasn't for Miep Gies , We wouldn't know who Anne was. RIP to eight occupants of the secret annex and the helpers. May your souls rest in piece.

[@opreabobe1857]

Jeguri naziste

[@katherineislora3266]

It was this video that gave me the person for my history presentation. We had to chose a person from history and present their lives to other people. I was so sad to hear that everyone in my class didn’t know who she was, so I was happy to educate them about her. I have to present her to my whole school on the 15th. Hopefully I succeed to present her life, and Anne’s life, and Otto as well.

[@themagyarfiucska]

Poor Otto, he lost his whole family. Without the diary, he might not even have had the strength to go on... Thank God, he published it and that it became such a success. It has helped me a lot. I don't dwell on small things anymore after reading it because what they went through was Hell compared to our lives today.

[@ribbone1975]

NB it a very dry read. not interesting at all. people who get through it don't swallow what they read and think critically. they are just proud and feel they did something noble by reading it/finishing it. watch diary Anne Frank Otto Frank hoax. it points all the discrepancies out. it's said they were hiding and had to be quiet at all times. yet they did gymnastics, sang, vacuumed during the day, smoked cigarettes, had fresh produce come to the house( in Poland, rations were very limited for everyone) soldiers included. it was war time afterall. so Frank's have fresh produce brought to the spice factory building with all the workers there during the day and moone questioned where this produce went. especially when no one was eating fresh veg. and the whole book shelf added to the door that went to the half of the building where they were staying. workers who worked there for years all of a sudden see a bookshelf places where the archway/stair s were to the back if the building. if the workers let police know. they would be rewarded with more rations. which they prob would of. lots of inconsistencies in the diary. but they're only found with study and critical thinking. I'm just a person who doesn't automatically swallow whatever is fed to me. I like to analyze

[@xmynationalanthemx]

I can't even begin to imagine the overwhelming pain and grief of losing my entire family to something as atrocious and awful as the Holocaust. I'd be so lost without my family. They're my whole world. My heart will always break to think about the suffering this man went through after learning of not only his wife's death, but both his children's deaths as well. I can only hope that reading Anne's diary brought peace for him.

[@ribbone1975]

Jenna Denjern he made 12 million or so. lived in Switzerland to for tax reasons. a playwright sued him for $50,000 and won. if anyone questioned the validity of the "diary" he quickly brought them to court. I think he settled outside court once to avoid scrutiny. a Swedish man, Ernst Zundel and another man are in a vid here on KZbin's.Anne Frank Otto frank diary hoax. check it out

[@UtopiaBlue68]

@@ribbone1975 They're just jealous and want their own name in the media trying to ride off the coattails of the Frank's is nothing new.

[@Ibiracatu]

Her life proves that the pen is mightier than the gun! Her executer are all dead now. They are forgotten, yet she is remembered forever! mirroring all who were slaughtered for what? This is the darkest side of humanity, and it still exists today. Can we ever evolve to a greater level? I have my doubts. Keep writing your feelings, your notes, and diaries. One day, you may be the next Anne Frank. I only hope it's on a positive note.

[@Holocaustof6000000]

Dmitry Ford Anne Frank lives on and her credibility grows as denial seeks to confuse some with an irrelevance!

[@Ibiracatu]

that's history. One day, all will be irrelevant.

[@Holocaustof6000000]

Dmitry Ford Nope! All in History becomes relevant as we explore its reaches toward learning from it!

[@aaaaddddaaa]

Dmitry Ford History is never irrelevant, it's usually repeated.

[@soeffingwhat]

Dmitry Ford History is never irrelevant.

[@Flyingtaco82]

I don’t want to imagine a world without Anne’s diary. Her memory is an eternal blessing to the world.

[@geozap4518]

"Wednesday, April 5th, 1944 My dearest Kitty [the name for her diary], I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death and that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift which I can use to develop and express all that's inside me. Yours Anne M Frank"

[@donovan_ep]

Did you know that hitler when he was young he fell in a fountain and was drowning but a priest got him out. Could you imagine all of this would of never happened if the priest wouldn't of saved him!!

[@szaki]

What would've happen?

[@majorehh]

He didn't fall in a fountain, he was somewhere on some ice park or something, and he fell in because the ice cracked.

[@kawazaki23]

Irvin Valadez where did you get that informatie from ...???

[@hypercoffee7566]

Irvin Valadez Did you know Hitler fell in love with a Jewish girl. And, some of his relatives are Jewish.

[@szaki]

Hyper Coffee Total BS!

[@dogwithavlog344]

I’m Jewish, my great grandma survived the holocaust, when I try to ask her about it, she always said, I’ve seen things that weren’t meant to be seen, I’m only in 5th grade, I’m writing a story called clock wise, it’s about a girl who got a clock that went the other way, the maker of the clock died a month after he gave her the clock, he told her to never to touch it or danger will come, she didn’t listen, and took it to a clock maker to fix it, next thing she knows she was at his funeral, crying, and she hasn’t touched the clock for 6 years, she found it in 2022 February 5th, in the basement while she was cleaning up, she was 17, it was glowing, and somehow she passed out for two hours, next thing she knows there was crying and screaming out the window,solider were setting up high tech bombs and vans that said, van for Jews in German, time was turning back or, it was just everything’s coming back, she moved to Switzerland with her family last minute, she lived in Germany before, they wanted Jews out of everywhere, she was in peace for a few years TIL they found her and took her to the camps,her parents had to fight in war and died, I have more but I’m planning to publish it when I’m done,

[@dreamer9375]

Did you publish it? It sounds like a great story!

[@dogwithavlog344]

@@dreamer9375 haha that was 3 years ago when I was 10. Sadly I haven’t published it yet, I lost all of the pages I wrote on for that story. But I appreciate it dearly!

[@shobhas.v5558]

As a child, I heard about the attrocities towards Jews from my father. As I grew up, I learnt more about it. I feel humans don't learn from their mistakes. See around, even now, genocide is still happening in a subtle manner! Why can't...why can't people accept people as they are...live in peace, leave others also in peace!! Don't understand. Competition for power, money...all futile

[@angelnapano4890]

Hope you'll continue the idea, it's fantastic.

[@arya.07]

@@dogwithavlog344 Broo it's amazing! Pleasee if you've got the time, then pleasee continue it. It was damnn awesome

[@MaryPinkHair]

I think we are very blessed to have these diaries and that Otto Frank lived to have them published. It is just one more personal account of war related occurrences we wish never to experience ourselves.

[@angrynas9668]

Linda Spontak Buy seico

[@amandad401]

Otto Frank died in August, 1980, but I'm sure he would've loved to know that people are still honoring his family in 2013.

[@masond7573]

Now *2023

[@hellokitty2397]

I loved Anne Frank as soon as I read her diary when I was a child. Such a sweet soul and she loved everyone.

[@cassielong8966]

she didn't love her mom tho...

[@chloefox9657]

Cassie Long Anne did love her mum she just never understands Anne the way her dad did she's a daddy's girl like me

[@graceesmi]

@@cassielong8966 she did but her mum didn’t understand her as well as her father does

[@curiousreader732]

she was a teenager growing up in tough circumstances. She clashed with her mother and was more a daddy's girl, but absolutely she loved her mother deep down.

[@eshim3961]

I love her because she was so much like many of us at that age; selfish, spoiled and tactless, mixed with brilliance, love, depth and introspection. When I first read the book, though I was a few years younger than she was at the time, I so identified with her thoughts and feelings. In the best way possible, I think Anne Frank was just an ordinary little girl living during extraordinary times, and through her tragic death, the world was able to see the shining brilliance that existed in her. I've read many, many books in my life, but no writer has touched me as much as Anne Frank.

[@vickylynn2432]

Her wish was to live on after her death, and she does through her diary!!

[@vickylynn2432]

she still lives on through it. With the movie they made then.

[@dominikk5763]

+Vicky Lynn Yes, she does. Through her diary, she stands for the triumph of the spirit of evil and death.

[@theodorechristopoulos3130]

+Nir Hakimian that sick no way wouldent go that far

[@nirhakimian3204]

theodore Christopoulos​ I have to admit having a big noise is a big advantage, not just that I smell your money from far but also it help me to type faster, like a third hand. I wish I had 35. If I did I will be antisemitic like you. Not everyone has your talent to be free of any morality. Good for you althouristic fake nazi. Like your idol said he killed 60 millions for the sake of humanity. He even was stealing all work of art from European museums and bombed cities for the sake of humanity but that is another subject.... Bye bye fake nazi. Go watch holocaust documentaries and get horny

[@theodorechristopoulos3130]

+Nir Hakimian typical a of a Jew like you who sticken body is rotting lmao like i said i dont agree with Nazis i cant wait til israel falls no one like you and the Muslims not even the american want you obama rejects you all the time lol

[@chrislidurison905]

Yes Anne wrote her own diary,,the one that is on the shelves of every bookstore,,,u say she was too young to have written it,,but u forget that while in hiding ,,her father made sure that she and her sisters studied many languages,and Anne read many,many books given to her by Miep Gies,,,,,the girl was very smart,,smarter than most of you!!! To say her father wrote her book is dishonoring her life and death!! She saw what was going on around her and had the skills to properly record them in her diary....maybe he edited out parts the might embarass her,,but these r her words for sure....also,she aged while in hiding ,and grew up alot..so she was perfectly capable of being a prolific writer.

[@kittykissis.1730]

Anne was so smart

[@kittykissis.1730]

yes u are so right

[@kittykissis.1730]

***** your a mut dog a ugly one at that. fly back to your blood county ass Freck.

[@kittykissis.1730]

that's right so very smart.

[@kittykissis.1730]

thank you a normal kind person

[@boy-re8ii]

Otto wrote that letter to his mother the week Anne and Margot died...i'm gonna cry

[@dortekuhler-otuekpo8810]

I had read her book and later I have visited this flat in Amsterdam. While I was moving through I could feel her. I'm German and I feel sad and guilty what in German name happened. We should never stop talking about the holocaust. Anne had an amazing talent. So sad.

[@swiater1]

Dorte Kuhler..Feel sad, yes, but please don't feel guilty, you are not guilty of anything! I'm an American woman, and the horrific history of American slavery is not my fault, and the Holocaust is not your fault! Be happy and Love Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because he loves all of us who believe in him and love him...peace and love to you:)

[@Cami-dc9iu]

much love to you stay safe

[@JesusismyRock773]

@@swiater1 AMEN.

[@krislv9219]

@@swiater1 what about the rest of us…what about Anne who was Jewish..doesn’t God love her?

[@swiater1]

@@krislv9219 Anne was a child when she was slowly tortured and killed, God is a merciful God, and Jesus is Our Saviour, l believe that Anne is resting in peace until Our Lord's 2nd coming, have faith in God, believe the good news:)

[@Nigelsmom2136]

How heartbroken he must have been when he found out that Edith and both girls had died. I am so thankful he decided to share Anne's diary with the world.

[@belindagough8272]

Yes I read the diary,it was an eye opener to the holocaust

[@staceyvanadder6040]

What an extraordinary family

[@rissamae3073]

+Helmut Sonntag so?

[@ashyclaret]

Why? Her dad Otto worked for the German Army up until 1944 and fabricated the whole story.

[@WS3838]

Anne Frank's father, Otto, was a Nazi collaborator and war profiteer. Otto ran a profitable company which manufactured and wholesaled materials to the German army. The notorious 'annex' in Amsterdam, in which the Franks were 'hiding', was actually a comfortable flat above the Franks' Amsterdam business where the family lived without any money problems. Otto collaborated with the Dutch Nazis as well as with Germans. Actually he only ended in a work camp when he tried to cheat the Wehrmacht for more profit. You can read that in the 2003 book by Carol Ann Lee "The Hidden Life of Otto Frank". www.amazon.com/The-Hidden-Life-Otto-Frank/dp/0060520833 Ms. Lee documents the fascinating story of Otto Frank's wartime collaboration with the Nazi regimes, both in Germany and the Netherlands. She writes that Otto manufactured and wholesaled pectin and other products to the German army. "Pectin was a preservative that could be put to many uses, depending upon the type of pectin it was. All pectin was useful for food production, but certain kinds could be applied as a balm for wounds and as a thickener for raising blood volume in blood transfusions. Other types of pectin were used in the steel industry as a hardener and in the oil industry as an emulsifier. Therefore, it is possible that the Wehrmacht used the pectin they bought from Otto Frank's company for the war industry." Otto paid blackmail to his Dutch Nazi factotum, Tonny Ahlers, during the war to cover up his Jewish identity to his Nazi business partners and after the war to cover up Otto's wartime collaboration with the Nazis to his "diary" business partners. Probably Otto also paid blackmail to keep secret that the alleged "diary" of his daughter Anne in actual fact had been written by the Jewish kitsch writer Meyer Levin. As a matter of fact it looks like Otto was still paying blackmail to Tonny Ahlers at the time of Otto's death in 1980! codoh.com/library/document/1544/#ftnref3

[@NickJay]

At NO point in the book did she use the word "collaborator"! Soon after the Germans invaded Holland, he had to leave the company. That doesn't smell of collaboration to me! Yes some of the decisions he made can be argued weren't the best, as Carol Ann Lee points out but he had to go into hiding along with the rest of his family and others and as for the suggestion that Anne's diary was written by someone else, I'm not even going to argue about something so ridiculous. Of course you have proof or sources and I've read some just now about Meyer Levin and it was probably his assumed right of the *play* script he argued about but I shall post a more accurate and in depth report of all this in a moment.

[@rissamae3073]

***** bad news how?

[@sarahweatherstone9829]

Anne said I want to go on living after i die. She kept her promise. She still lives on in my heart. She is my hero. I love you anne you are awesome and the bravest 13 year old I have ever heard of... Xxxxxx

[@GaryKildall]

I admire her whole diary for her desperate search for love. And she found Peter /van Daan/van Pels. Who for heavens sake could destroy these beings? But she has known love, but I deeply regret it ended so bad. And yes I cried reading her diary, for that I feel no shame.

[@GaryKildall]

Her cats were called Moortje, Moffi and Anne/Peter's cat was called Mouchi (Meaning Fluffy). Moffi as a cat kept the office building at Prinsengracht mouse/rat free, Mouchi was for hugging and loving a pet. Anne had to leave Moortje at her original home, so everyone thought the Frank family fled and escaped. Shalom.

[@isabelneves1319]

GaryKildall Things are changing in the world. This never will be happen again.

[@mordecaislicecock1496]

Isabel Neves it didnt even happen the first time?

[@mordecaislicecock1496]

Debra Franklin Yep. I was right. Sterilisation.

[@mordecaislicecock1496]

Mango ZGreen. Well I am looking forward to it.

[@bluerain1719]

I truly do believe that from heaven, she can see everyone who has been affected, everyone who pays her tribute as well as everyone else's lives who were slaughtered. I do believe that there's good at the end and it's just horrible that any of this happened and that these people died.

[@JosannaMonik]

And what a success it was! Thank you Otto, for making your daughter's dream come true.

[@quentinding7800]

I bet 1,700 of these comments are people arguing with one another

[@karlsmith6690]

No kidding.

[@soterger]

Rope innit

[@KhaledKhaled-sl5jl]

Roمتقغصpe

[@benlow6303]

Poor lad when he heard his friends and family died

[@AnitaD28]

I was fascinated by her story throughout my adolescence. She was an extraordinary person. This world lost an icon.

[@AnitaD28]

Mordecai Slicecock - really? I have family members who were at a camp when they were children. It happened. Your denial of this truth is only that... a denial.

[@AnitaD28]

Mordecai Slicecock - lol your brain is shot. It was a murder camp and yes children died. I have 2 family members who were children that died. Hitler killed himself bc he was a coward who committed war crimes on innocent children and adults . He was a monster. Now go away.

[@daughterofthemosthigh33]

Anyone watching this 2021,I send Love Hope Courage To You All from UK 🙏💫

[@PungiFungi]

Wish I can read and speak Dutch as that is the language the diary was written in; there are certain things in one language that do not translate well into another.

[@themagyarfiucska]

PungiFungi I bought the diary in Dutch last time I visited Amsterdam, wish I could read it.

[@WS3838]

PungiFungi The original language was English. The Jewish kitsch writer Meyer Levin wrote the "Anne Frank diary". The Zionist author Meyer-Levin was specialized in kitsch "fictionalizing history" novels written in the first person like a "diary". Otto Frank translated into Dutch, what Meyer-Levin wrote.

[@alleycat4437]

WS3838 You are lying again. Why do you lie all the time? Is it pathological? :) xx

[@WS3838]

Alley Cat Anne Frank's father, Otto, was a Nazi collaborator and war profiteer. Otto ran a profitable company which manufactured and wholesaled materials to the German army. The notorious 'annex' in Amsterdam, in which the Franks were 'hiding', was actually a comfortable flat above the Franks' Amsterdam business where the family lived without any money problems. Otto collaborated with the Dutch Nazis as well as with Germans. You can read that in the 2003 book by Carol Ann Lee "The Hidden Life of Otto Frank. www.amazon.com/The-Hidden-Life-Otto-Frank/dp/0060520833 Ms. Lee documents the fascinating story of Otto Frank's wartime collaboration with the Nazi regimes, both in Germany and the Netherlands. She writes that Otto manufactured and wholesaled pectin and other products to the German army. "Pectin was a preservative that could be put to many uses, depending upon the type of pectin it was. All pectin was useful for food production, but certain kinds could be applied as a balm for wounds and as a thickener for raising blood volume in blood transfusions. Other types of pectin were used in the steel industry as a hardener and in the oil industry as an emulsifier. Therefore, it is possible that the Wehrmacht used the pectin they bought from Otto Frank's company for the war industry." Otto paid blackmail to his Dutch Nazi factotum, Tonny Ahlers, during the war to cover up his Jewish identity to his Nazi business partners and after the war to cover up Otto's wartime collaboration with the Nazis to his "diary" business partners. Probably Otto also payed blackmail to keep secret that the alleged "diary" of his daughter Anne in actual fact had been written by the Jewish kitsch writer Meyer Levin. As a matter of fact it looks like Otto was still paying blackmail to Tonny Ahlers at the time of Otto's death in 1980! codoh.com/library/document/1544/#ftnref3

[@alleycat4437]

WS3838 OK here's a link to the court case you are LYING about again: ny.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19570312_0041130.NY.htm/qx But keep lying Mr Nazi shows readers what kind of pathetic human being you really are. Here's part of the text of the case with comments to help you understand what it is saying. Please tell us where the court case mentions Meyer was suing Frank because he had written the diary. In essence the court case was about, breach of contract regarding a theatre production of the diary. "The defendant Frank moves to vacate a warrant of attachment, or in the alternative for an increase of the security furnished when the warrant was granted. *_The defendant Frank is the owner of the literary property in a book, originally published in the Dutch and French languages under the title "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" (referred to as the Diary)._* (The court establishes that Frank is the owner and the book was originally published in Dutch and French) In 1952 the Diary was published in English in the United States and it has also been adapted into a play which has been running in New York for an extended period with marked success. *_It appears from the papers that the plaintiff, an author, journalist and playwright, in 1950 made an agreement with Frank by which the plaintiff was exclusively to represent Frank's interests for the exploitation of the Diary in the United States._* (Frank made an agreement with Meyer regarding the exploitation of the Diary in the USA) In furtherance of this agreement Frank on March 31, 1952, authorized the plaintiff, as his agent to negotiate exclusively for one year for presentations of the Diary and to enter into agreements with respect thereto, subject to Frank's approval of the agreements or any adaptation of the Diary prior to its public presentation. On November 21, 1952, the plaintiff and Frank entered into a written agreement which not alone terminated the March 31, 1952 authorization, but on December 21, 1952, *_virtually excluded the plaintiff from participation in the fruits of the dramatic or like presentation of the Diary._* (This makes it plain even to the most stupid person that the case is about a theatre production, not authorship) The plaintiff claims that his execution of the November 21, 1952 agreement was procured by fraud and the resultant controversy is the occasion for this suit. *_The action is brought against Frank and Bloomgarden, the producer of the dramatic version of the Diary._* The complaint contains four causes of action, one, the third, against Bloomgarden alone, with which we are not here concerned. The first and second causes of action are stated against Frank, and the fourth against both Frank and Bloomgarden. The second cause of action is for breach of the 1950 agreement. It realleges from the first cause of action the relation of the parties and the terms of the 1950 agreement, and alleges further the *_defendant's refusal in violation of the agreement to authorize the plaintiff to write a dramatic adaption of the Diary or to have others collaborate with him for that purpose._* It alleges due performance and concludes with *_a demand for $50,000 damages. Standing by itself this is an ordinary claim at law for breach of contract."_*

[@InFltSvc]

Anne with with her maker , no longer in pain , no longer looking back. God used her for this reason as horrible this all was, may we nor future generations ever forget ! This must NEVER happen again

[@NostalgicChannel]

Always a fascinating story, it's just a awful shame Anne Frank and her sister Margot didn't survive the war, imagine the story's they could of told to the world and the warnings to the younger generations, RIP Anne & Margot Frank.

[@sinsibmw]

I starting reading the comments but after the first several, had to stop. I don't know why I am surprised by all of the hatred being spewed but I guess it is an innate yet perhaps unrealistic belief that a majority of human beings are still humane...seeing these comments, that belief is caught in the wind of hatred and obliterated. Perhaps I can chalk it up to lack of education, media propaganda, a sign of the times, the veil of anonymity that the internet provides or maybe it is simply, that people choose to hate blindly, rather than choose to understand, rather than choose to open their minds, rather than choose to exercise good judgement, rather than choose to practice tolerance...Anne Frank has done more for humanity in her writings and during her short lifetime, than all of the haters put together posting to this blog, in their long, listless, hate-filled lifetimes...

[@beenaplumber8379]

My friend, you are over-thinking things. First, people who comment on You Tube videos are not at all representative of humanity. I think we tend to be more eccentric in some ways. Second, I doubt even one tenth of the people spouting hate here actually hold hate in their hearts toward Jews. They are trolls who see it as a sport to infuriate people and then watch the uproar they have caused. Third, by even replying to the trolls, we are rewarding them and making them even more powerful than they are. Trolls are sad and lonely people who resort to a really pathetic form of recreation - hurting people's feelings. This discussion and all discussions about Jewish-themed videos will be plagued with trolls because the trolls are so well fed here. Jews are a very easy target because so many people are so outraged (rightly so) by anti-Semitic comments. My answer: Don't get down on humanity. Feel sorry for the sad trolls, but don't feed them. They are like the begging crack whores that we cannot save. Maintain dignity in the face of adversity, and stay above their provocation. Remember, there are very few trolls, but each one can make a lot of noise. What would Anne's answer be? Something cheerful, no doubt - soomething that reflected her faith in the general goodness of people, yet also witty...

[@fayettevillain1171]

Beena Plumber What if I do think that commenters on these videos are a representation of humanity? How aren't they?

[@beenaplumber8379]

Chichi Chichi Oppai Then you disagree with me (so what?), and you are free to live with your own pessimism. I simply do not share it, and for a good reason. I have known far too many people away from the Internet - in real life, in my neighbourhood, not on TV - and the people I meet there, in real life, are nothing like this. If you live in a neighbourhood where you are surrounded by people who hate, then you are free to stay there and accept things, take steps to change things, or move somewhere else. YT has its trolls. You have the same three options - accept, work for change, or leave. Best wishes.

[@88chachacha]

Brenda Sinsigallo well said.

[@ashyclaret]

Some people want the truth not a sob story to cry over.

[@alleycat4437]

jonghtube Thank you for sharing and taking the time to upload this.

[@tsuki3438]

Reading Anne Frank's diary took my 3 months to read it but it was worth it

[@justjamarielle7091]

Humdrum inc Really the movie is 3 hours

[@atruebluestory]

thank you so much for sharing this x

[@Vote4King]

aaa

[@pagromheizer7485]

And a criminal too.

[@yicelmedrano4175]

rest in peace Anne we will always remember you

[@DronkGaming]

It's truly amazing what this man has been through and survived

[@pbose698]

Thank you so much for uploading such noble deeds may God bless you all.Brings tears to my eyes to see the suffering .Annie Rip.

[@TomMendoladrums]

Thank you David de Jongh for making this documentary.

[@imjustlaura8160]

people in the comments have no heart she died have some respect dont say this was a lie and that otto was a criminal he wasnt so shut up

[@lauracleghorn6474]

Since I was a child I have loved Anne Frank.She was astonshing to me.We were the same age as I read her diary.I felt so sorry for her and her family.Their only sin was that they were Jewish...Because of her I grew up to love the Jewish people.Anne brought her world into mine...My world was safe, her world wasn't...I spent my life writing my own journals.I also spent my life loving everyone that I possibly could.Thank you Anne Frank that you lived to share your life and to share your love.

[@dorothybobo5157]

Thank you for sharing. It was very moving. When I was about 12, we read Anne Frank's Diary in school. Ann and her story were unforgettable. When I was in my 40's I got to visit Amsterdam and The Anne Frank Museum. I was excited to be there, to see the hiding place. I saw the children's growth charts, the movie star's pictures stuck on the wall. The cattle cars headed to the concentration camps. I couldn't stop crying. How, why, did this happen. We must never forget. And genocide is happening all over the world now. We can all make a difference. Love concurs all.

[@88chachacha]

ash wednesday grow up you fool

[@ashyclaret]

You're the fool,the world is even worse now.The wrong side won and we will be slaves for a long time to come.

[@ufopsi]

Anne Frank is my favorite writer.

[@ashes524]

Thank you for posting this.

[@Phoenixdemon666]

Thank you for sharing this footage, I am interested in watching the full documentary but can't afford to buy it so I will have to settle with this. I find all of this to be amazing, I watched the older movie about anne frank when I was in grade school and then we visited a memorial of her that was in town at the time; it was an amazing experience, she truly is an inspiration. Even if by chance what people are claiming of Otto Frank forging her diary and whatnot I don't think it really matters at this point and time as there are so many people that are impacted by the story. I believe that Anne's wish came true, and I can't imagine the pain he was going through, losing his entire family. May they all rest in peace, I am ever so grateful that her story has been shared with the world. It is a story that I will share with my children.

[@JessicaRodriguez-zy5gz]

They have videos now on here you can watch ❤️❤️❤️

[@terrancegray549]

Rest in peace Anne and Margot

[@sylviawyder9290]

And not the mother?

[@wilbertsanchez2781]

Im reading her diary it is so sad how she was in an attic for 2 years and she still didn't survive and ppl are complaining for being in lockdown safe at home having a chance of survival but yall remeber something im glad she died bc god needed her for greater things in heaven and we will meet her when its are time to go and do great things in heaven

[@geozap4518]

"Wednesday, April 5th, 1944 My dearest Kitty [the name for her diary], I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death and that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift which I can use to develop and express all that's inside me. Yours Anne M Frank"

[@isabelneves1319]

Incredible channel. Thanks for this.

[@stephens42]

She may be gone, but she is alive in words BEAUTIFUL WORDS

[@Gabherelol]

Beautiful hearing about their family life and understanding a deeper dynamic and history/background to how they came to be where they were. Sad to hear how she loved life more than anyone that woman had ever met, how hopeful they were when they left Germany for Holland and how regular they were, just like yours or my family. Keep hearing all these stories about her laugh and smile and happy disposition and wanting to know more then realising the story didn't have a happy ending. Absolutely tragic. And every person who died as a result of Hitler and his party has a backstory like this, they all had people who loved and cared about them, smiles and laughter and jokes to share with the world. Breaks your heart all over again.

[@rollingthunder7258]

Whaooo! I'm speechless. Otto was a great Father indeed.

[@ccj9216]

You know what’s even more disturbing about that letter from the neo-Nazi? It was sent to Otto Frank the day of Anne Frank’s birthday June 12th, 1959. She would’ve been 30 that day.

[@Naga_kiboy]

It's 2024 who is still listening to Anne's story 😊❤

[@caitlincritchley]

It's jut amazing how they still have the diary

[@brendastar9858]

Poor Him! ): He lost 2 daughters & his wife ):

[@caphouse4683]

An amazing story from and equally amazing young lady. We are blessed because of it and be rest assured Anne you HAVE gone on living even in your death. You blessed us with your diary. What a treasure!

[@lukeythegamer1790]

that was amazing i have been watching this for two days

[@JimInYamaguchi]

Where is the rest of this video/program? I'd like to see it all. Perhaps you could tell us the name, if not show us the whole thing.

[@riyamforever5373]

Without anne frank, there will be no peace, she herself wrote a diary that explains and expresses her feelings for the world and how she felt about all of us. you must thank her and feel sorry for what she has been through all her life!

[@riyamforever5373]

do not say such thing, i have read her diary, and this video is very similar to what happened to her!

[@alleycat4437]

***** Typhus was only "common" in Nazi German concentration camps were people who had been dispossessed of everything they owned were imprisoned in appalling conditions. Undoubtedly you're able to provide some verifiable evidence as to why the diary is a "fiction", right? ;-) xx

[@themagyarfiucska]

***** "With Otto Frank's death in 1980, the original diary, including letters and loose sheets, were willed to the Dutch Institute for War Documentation, who commissioned a forensic study of the diary through the Netherlands Ministry of Justice in 1986. They examined the handwriting against known examples and found that they matched. They determined that the paper, glue, and ink were readily available during the time the diary was said to have been written. They concluded that the diary is authentic, and their findings were published in what has become known as the "Critical Edition" of the diary. On 23 March 1990, the Hamburg Regional Court confirmed the diary's authenticity."

[@themagyarfiucska]

***** Well, she wrote with a fountain pen.

[@themagyarfiucska]

***** Otto Frank was a businessman. The family used to own a bank. They weren't exactly badly situated until the Anti-Jewish laws were introduced.

[@deniserjbertoni9105]

This is a very nice tribute for this wonderful man but sometimes I could not read the translation captions

[@cristinamatos6225]

Wonderful documentary. How can I share it with my friends? It was my favourite book as a teeanager and it 'awaken' my humanist side. Thanks Otto Frank for sharing it with us all.

[@garibaldi54]

What an incredible man to endure so much.

[@rons8749]

your an angel Anne

[@souzisaousan6723]

+Helmut Sonntag she not, long ago some kind people let her and her family stay in their attic but eventually they found her while she was hiding she write a diary, please dont say that she is a character she is a hero

[@nirhakimian3204]

+Helmut Sonntag you want to be like Hitler?

[@cassielong2996]

+Helmut Sonntag nope she was a real person do your research

[@ashyclaret]

She might of been real but she was only put in a work camp.The whole diary thing has been fabricated and was also proven to have been wrote in ballpoint pen which wasn't available when she was alive.

[@nirhakimian3204]

ash wednesday You are proven to be a boring troll

[@kcrcbest]

thanx eversooooo much for sharing this thanx

[@a0952148886]

Thinks for uploading this video I love peace hoping never have war in the world again

[@mariaalvarez1378]

wow.. im 14 and ive read the diary of anne frank and its very touching. She has influenced my life:) Thank u, Anne. God bless u!

[@heather-uh7cu]

rip anne frank😢😢😢😭😭😭😭

[@melanysalazar2836]

I'm depressed now from reading and watching the movie. How could people let this all happen?

[@prben2]

When they made The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film).Otto Frank wanted the Dutch born Audrey Hepburn to play the part, because he thought she reminded her of his daughter Ann, although Hepburn was honoured by the suggestion, she had too turn the part down, because she felt she was too old for the part, so It went the American Millie Perkins instead!

[@jenniferl3773]

He was such a great dad to her!! May their souls rest in piece.

[@captainvin9009]

Curious to know how Otto Frank survived the death camp. What kind of labor did he do? Was he just fortunate enough to be liberated in time?

[@Rosey622]

I imagine so yes, the camp was liberated in 1945, I assume he went in at around September 1944. He may not have been in there long

[@csminternational8789]

The glorious red army?? I hope you don't need a treatment against hallucinations.

[@csminternational8789]

I guess I might not be reading correctly what you want to say.

[@WS3838]

Heribert J M Geib CSM-GA do you understand what sarcasm means?

[@okult88]

Captain Vin he survived until they were liberated by Russians but Anne died one day before they were liberated

[@jackieyu4787]

The diary. Hard to read. I cried at the end I'm just glad her voice made a difference like she wanted

[@caroladler3148]

If Otto Frank had not had the financial means, business contacts and social status to find his family a safe shelter what would he have done? As a middle-class American Jew, I find it distressing that those less fortunate often had no way out. Many were lucky enough to send their children to rural farms, receive money from friends and relatives in other countries or if they were very lucky, find a contact in the Resistance, those brave and dedicated souls who led Jews and other persecuted people to safe havens while risking their own lives. After they lived through Auschwitz and Treblinka, my mother and father-in-law were sent to a refuge camp where they married and were sponsored to come to America by a relative. It is a miracle Otto survived and Miep was a true heroine. But the Frank's story also shows that those who had money or contacts could still be betrayed.

[@Rattopaz]

On this video there are some photos of Anne i've never seen before

[@rachelorozco9427]

I am naming my baby girl Miep Anne

[@semendomnitser8818]

poor baby .... with the name of a mendacious fraudster

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Hope your baby is doing good in 2020 I am sure she big now.

[@monis9198]

stupid

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Loved how he kept it safe and lock up so powerful

[@wenbiafra]

I don't have no words to express the disgust of many stupid, antisemitic, discriminatory and ignorant comments. This is 15 minutes of a really inspiring biography of a great person, that if we could listen to his words, we wont be repeating the same discrimination to others. War is everywhere this days and I agree that genocide can happen again.

[@vrishnisivakumaran7926]

How I wish this girl, this family had survived. Just a few more months in the Annexe and they woulda made it. Of course her Diary wouldn't have been this famous perhaps.. But I care more about this amazing young girl who never got to even.. Live and have a future and dreams.

[@PotterPossum1989]

I wouldn't worry about any of the comments. People are just being irritating.

[@ooeo]

poor otto he has to suffer with the pain knowing that his family is gone. but at least he mades annes dreams come true. ;c

[@anthonyrackauckas7788]

In 8th grade, I had to pick a historical figure and I chose Anne. I chose her because her diary was such an inspiration. It makes me want to work hard every day.

[@DarthTrader707]

It was amazing the foresight this man had, about what Hitler was not only capable of, but what he was convinced he would in fact, do. Immediately after he becomes chancellor, he moved the family out of Germany. He went to the Netherlands, which he no doubt thought was safe from the reaches of Hitler. Then, when Holland was invaded, he almost immediately began planning to go into hiding. He moved furniture and possessions into the annex over a period of months, to avoid any suspicion. It's such a tragedy, though, because he decided to leave Germany so early, he could have almost certainly have gone to Switzerland as well, where he even had family. If he had done that, he would have absolutely survived the war with his family. But, nonetheless, he was a man who tried to do everything he could, proactively, to save his family. It must have weighed on him with tremendous guilt that in the end, he was unable to do so.

[@hildachapa5831]

Very Sad!! and very sweet girl...And it happen thousands of kids ..So sad...!

[@semendomnitser8818]

it happened to ten million German kids by the famishment warfare and carpet bombing by the Jews Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin ...

[@hybrigxtcha8524]

otto frank was such a brave man. losing one child is horrible but losing 2 AND your wife is simply unbearable! soooooooooooo awesome he could speak out. he and miep gies helped bring anne's message to millions of people- to help fight for human rights throughout the world.

[@mariavoziki6670]

Amazing video!!! 👍

[@catharinabrn8647]

I'm from Germany, so my English is very bad. In this video is spoken lots of german, that's good for me, but when their spoken Netherlands (???) I must read the English subtitles. This is very odd for me! I have this theme surrently in my school, and we' ll look a film to Anne Frank. It's very strange, to see German videos, with English subtitles, I know it just conversely! Please correct me :)

[@bluski6785]

Holländisch heißt dutch auf englisch :)

[@catharinabrn8647]

Stimmt ;)

[@user-xc4eh5cy9l]

Ich bin aüslander und specen nicht gut deutch

[@freshstartification]

You're doing very well

[@zerione9681]

Hahaha dat is grappig (thats funny)

[@pinkdiamonds9137]

13:00 There's a MIDGET on the left!!

[@s.roshni9349]

I just finished reading the book ,it's sooooooo saddddd i found my self sobbing at the end ,

[@32446]

I read Otto Frank’s biography and he struck me as a truly impressive man.

[@sabres929]

otto should have went to switzerland. too sad

[@user-jo6yy5lf4l]

Yes he should have gone to Switzerland ! He would have saved his family away from the nazi persecution..and his mother lived there..strange..

[@lilharlemcutie]

Ppl please let's only put positive kind comments Mr.Otto Frank is no longer alive whatever negative views you have please don't write them just keep moving

[@rollingthunder7258]

Still Speechless

[@WS3838]

The renowned German News Magazine "Der SPIEGEL" reported about that in 1980. I translate to English: In the year 1980 Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, had litigated the Hamburg citizen Ernst Römer for "holocaust denial" which is punishable in Germany, cause Ernst Römer had said that the diaries are a forgery. In the following legal proceedings the Hamburg Landgericht (regional court with 2 or 3 judges plus 2 lay judges) asked an expertise from the excellently equipped forensic laboratory of the Bundeskriminalamt (German FBI) to determine the age of the diaries. The German FBI lab found beyond all doubts that some pages of the diaries were written with a ballpen ("blue paste") which was introduced in Europe only in 1951. Already in 1960 the Hamburg court-appointed expert for graphology Minna Becker wrote in an expertise for the Lübeck regional court in another lawsuit, that all entries in all three diary books including all stuck in loose papers were written by the same person. Following the laws of logic that means that "The Diary of Anne Frank " was written by a person, who was alive in 1951. Anne Frank died in 1945 of typhus. www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14317313.html

[@annieh2794]

In case anybody reads this, her diary was originally published on June 25th 1947. So the claim that someone else wrote it in 1951 is obviously not true.

[@safechaudhry2759]

I trust you Ann Frank! I believe in you 100% I believe you are in this world still with us;just not seen by anyone! I BELIEVE IN THIS WHOLE HISTORY !!!!!!!!!

[@pagromheizer7485]

+safe chaudhry And you also believe in Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. She wrote a few pages and her poppa Otto did the rest.

[@pagromheizer7485]

***** Yes. To prove this to yourself you will need to look at the actual documents. That will cost you some money but you will never be the same again.

[@pagromheizer7485]

***** You can start by observing the very large (reproduction) posters in the windows of the Anne Frank museum. There are pictures available on the internet. Ask yourself two questions. Does the cursive writing look like that of a teenage girl? Does the manner or style of verbal expression match that of a teenage girl? The Anne Frank Diary is fiction promoted by her criminal father.

[@pagromheizer7485]

***** You must conduct your own research, grasshopper.

[@pagromheizer7485]

***** In that case you will stay stupid. :)

[@purplehazee90]

A lot of these comments are downright cruel, but most important is the fact that these people PURPOSELY search for Holocaust survivor stories just to comment something stupid. And for what? To gain a few likes from the like minded idiots who believe that the Holocaust (one of the best documented crisis) is hoax. I feel bad for these people because they lack the most basic component of being a human being: compassion. People ask how could the Nazi do this to a group of people, but is it really that hard to believe? We have people in the comments laughing at other's pain and try to belittle and discredit what they went through.

[@purplehazee90]

Mordecai Slicecock hi, obviously you are a troll. hope whatever horrible things that are going on in your life to make you leave such a comment will get better soon. have faith.

[@popplioprincess7137]

Why are you so hateful?

[@leleginasta]

em que ano foi gravado esta entrevista???

[@marianasousa2151]

Poxa eu queria entender mas fica dificil pois eu não entendo a língua. Alguém generoso coloque legenda em português por favor

[@JansenSmithonlinesocialhub]

Was that a dwarf at 13:00 ?

[@blackprix]

I don't care who you are, how you made your money, what you did to get there, NO GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD deserve to be eliminated .... NO ONE! Anybody who thinks this way is not worth the time of day on this earth!

[@EphemeralProductions]

Anne's diary was so cute and tiny! :)

[@gassyburnham3465]

I feel sorry for Anne Frank. First she gets her diary published, which is every girl's worst nightmare, but on top of that she doesn't get any money from it, which is every Jew's worst nightmare.

[@righteousgentile8194]

Gassy Burnham. Nicely put !.

[@massielcortes1449]

did you even read the diary? She wrote in her diary that she wanted to publish it under a fake name, and said plenty of times that she wanted to become a writer but she thought nobody would be interested in her stories, because she had written stories besides her diary.

[@massielcortes1449]

@@righteousgentile8194 did you even read the diary? She wrote in her diary that she wanted to publish it under a fake name, and said plenty of times that she wanted to become a writer but she thought nobody would be interested in her stories, because she had written stories besides her diary.