Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family?

A retired FBI special agent and a team of investigators believe they’ve solved one of the world’s most well-known and tragic cold cases. Jon Wertheim reports.
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[@StacieMMeier]

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ― Anne Frank

[@user-yb8vr2ip2t]

Anne wouldn't think that if she'd read all the comments in these threads just now.

[@snakey973]

She was young They aren't

[@user-yb8vr2ip2t]

@@snakey973 I' d make that, "She was sane. They aren't." There are very deeply disturbed individuals popping up all over here...

[@randymagnum8721]

@@user-yb8vr2ip2t You and snakey973 don't speak for Anne you ignorant pieces of s. Shame on both of you for trying to stifle her truth.

[@user-yb8vr2ip2t]

@@randymagnum8721 How are we "stifling her truth", wack job? I'll wait.

[@mariadelcarmencervantez233]

Anne's father finding this out after he lost his family had to have been so difficult to handle.

[@martysmith5260]

Receiving an anonymous letter is not iron clad evidence. For all we know, it could have been written by the actual person who gave the Frank’s up. Did anyone think of that?? My guess is Otto Frank didn’t mention it because he doubted the veracity of the letter.

[@womenfrom0202]

@@martysmith5260 that man died in 1950 and the note was forwarded some yrs later. In The Netherlands hardly any one thinks it’s the person they say told the Nazi’s.

[@davidlynch9049]

@@martysmith5260 It was a fellow Jew who exposed them. Otto believed revealing him would lead to more anti-Semitism.

[@davidlynch9049]

@@womenfrom0202 Read the new book. There is no doubt it was him.

[@carolinebergin4633]

He must have been traumatized for the rest of his life. He was almost to afraid to read Anne’s diary when Miep gave to him. From what I’ve known that is.

[@nathanas64]

Even as a father i cannot begin to imagine the pain Otto Frank felt for his family’s loss. What an evil regime. We cannot allow this to happen ever again.

[@MaskedMazter]

Ok you gate kepper

[@Chuked]

@@MaskedMazternga what 😭

[@cashondeliver]

This is happening right now on multiple continents lol

[@AD-ur1fk]

@@cashondeliver yup it’s happening right now yet nobody cares

[@franktuminski8460]

We Poles understand because were also victims of the Nazis

[@krissifaith6709]

In South Korea, I had my students read her diary. One student wrote a letter to her even though she knows she was long gone. It was a beautiful letter from one innocent girl to another... so I copied the letter and sent it to the curator of the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. They sent her an official letter from the museum. It was so special and I called the student into the meeting with the academy principal to give her the letter. She didn't know that I had sent it in. Anne Frank's story is so inspiring and moving even in this present age.

[@jaeseungemmalee2976]

너무 자랑스러워요 ❤

[@valrfl]

What a beautiful story 😢❤

[@maryroberts2099]

It's so sad that they were picked up after D Day. They thought they'd be free soon

[@TheresaGraf]

Did you tell them it was fiction? If not you're a poor excuse for a teacher. You should have studied more before opening your mouth.

[@ahsram5134]

❤️

[@lorag4664]

If Otto Frank knew the identity of the person who betrayed his family, then he was a bigger and better person than I could ever hope to be.

[@ozzymandias7346]

"Than" you could ever hope to be.

[@SomeGuyHowGoesIt]

@@ozzymandias7346 lol you had to be that guy and here of all places

[@redwriter1]

@@SomeGuyHowGoesIt Words matter dude.

[@idrk3707]

@@ozzymandias7346 same difference

[@idrk3707]

@@redwriter1 🦉 cares

[@doclewis8927]

When I first read her diary, I thought I'd be reading something that was only about sadness and fear. On the contrary, her diary tells of her heart and her hope mixed with the sadness of being trapped. The heartbreaking part is how close she was to surviving the whole thing. She is a shining star in the misery of humanity. We need more people like her in this world, especially nowadays when schools are removing books (again) from their bookshelves.

[@majik_man]

Beautiful comment Doc. It seems the entire world suffers from the eeyore syndrome. It's nice to hear some positivity in todays culture that most people don't possess.

[@mahmoudibnemir8704]

Actually, I find it more frightening that the President of America wants companies and states to silence people who are exercising freedom of speech...

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

@@thebiblicalawakening4662 Go away. You're reported for spam and harassment.

[@sportsguydave6201]

@@mahmoudibnemir8704 Nobody’s being silenced. Stop spreading lies and fake news.

[@crforfreedom7407]

"Who revealed her"? Everyone knows it was done by Peter Griffin while eating a bag of chips/crisps....

[@Aim_in_Cleveland]

I am disgusted that that poor teacher recently was fired because she read the Diary of Ann Frank. So sick of this world.

[@Thoralmir]

Unfortunately, tolerance towards Islam means allowing intolerance towards Jews.

[@laurenkeegan6968]

She wanted to be remembered, even after her death, and she has been. We honor you down here, Anne.

[@nielspemberton59]

She has an asteroid named for her. # 5535. (In the alternate world of a certain Stanley Kubrick movie, Humans would have visited # 5535 on the way to the vicinity of Jupiter.) Today, Asteroid 5535 is an object in space for future exploration.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

I ALWAYS suspected it was another Isr.aelite. It's the only thing that explains why Otto suddenly dropped his own questioning and refused to speak it about it again. I also believe that Otto maybe understood him. Maybe Otto felt in his own heart he would have done the same to save his own children and family. Maybe he saw the real villain was and always will be the N's (sorry KZbin will delete any comment that contains a lot of these words). Very sad story. I hope at least the betrayer, whoever it was, admitted to Otto the truth and begged his forgiveness.

[@vivianfoster702]

I visited the Anne Frank house when I was in Amsterdam. It was in a very nice part of Amsterdam, a canal house. I remember going inside and they did a wonderful job preserving it. I don't normally get emotional when I visit historical sites, even though I know horrors took place there. But when I got to her room, and seeing some photos from magazine clippings and sort, gosh, I started really getting emotional and crying. She was just a kid, did nothing wrong to anyone in this world. To be punished just for living and being a Jew. No one deserves to be hunted like that. I remember saying something to her just like, "I'm so sorry. The world failed you".

[@organicdudranch]

you may want to dig deeper if you care about truth, her uncle wrote most of her diary.

[@lilybond6485]

Oh shawn -- you just so much want to believe that. 🙄

[@joem7799]

@@organicdudranch so your saying it wasn’t just her father who survived? I read the diary, it seemed to me to be the work of a female, definitely not male. At some points you know it’s a teenager who penned it, but at other points it seems to be a very mature mind that penned it and it was difficult to believe a teenager wrote it, however if l remember correctly Anne said that the child in her had gone because of her circumstances and what emerged was a fully mature personality who was her higher self . Anne said she felt her adult mind spring forth and she attributed it to a sense she felt that she needed to mature fast and reach an adult mentality to prevent experiencing the vulnerability of a childish mind which could not serve her in her circumstances. Something like that she stated!

[@organicdudranch]

@@joem7799 hi Joe, it's wonderful that you are taking such an objective view on something that can be very emotional. The question was taken to court and established a fraud.covered up by the media .even written with ball point pen,invented years after. Ww2

[@mamiemonrovia7654]

@@organicdudranch I've never heard that. I'm interested in the subject and would appreciate any links u could post for me. Thanks

[@meFatuations]

This tragedy resulted in a meaningful contribution to humanity. At 15 years old, Anne has one of the most read books ever written. She is a inspiration for my life.

[@Augalv]

Anne Frank's Diary is fake. Portions of it are written with a ball point pen. The ball point pen wasn't mass produced or distributed in early 1940s. She would have to be a time Traveller for the diary to be authentic.

[@trentf4891]

@@Augalv Why? Why would someone fake a Jewish girl's diary? Get help!

[@allensacharov5424]

@@trentf4891 And how many of the Diary have been sold? I realize financial gain cannot possibly be a reason.

[@uwone7778]

@@trentf4891 It's long been thought that her father finished some of the entries in ball point ink. I don't believe it's ever been proven or disproven.

[@xombie0078]

First off all, she never wrote a book. She is just a 15 year old teenage girl who happened to keep a diary (as many teenage girls do). But because she did it while in hiding from the Nazis, it presents a rather rare and unique perspective, and portions of it has been used as a propaganda tool to garner sympathy for the Jews since the holocaust.

[@MikeGervasi]

Her diary left a mark on anyone with a heart.

[@sld1776]

The very first problem with this investigation is that there's a book deal attached to it. They HAD to find a suspect.

[@ambreeniram2268]

She documented the darkest period of time in The Diary of a Young Girl. An innocent girl writing her dairy would have never thought the posthumous fame she will get after 75 years of death. May her soul rest in peace.

[@TheLordMoyne]

Anne Frank probably became a believer in Jesus Christ while in hiding. In her diary she describes reading the New Testament for the first time, and afterwards expressed being very upset that another Jew with whom she is hiding "scoffs at Jesus Christ." Why would a Jew be upset that another Jew "scoffs at Jesus Christ" unless she believed in Jesus herself?

[@the_trashman]

You mean the book Otto Frank wrote? That is legally recognized as a co-author of the book?

[@burnhags2572]

The journal was a fraud she didn’t write it it was written in ballpoint pen and it wasn’t invented yet till the 50s.

[@mjkelly8879]

@@the_trashman It was Annes diary, edited by Otto to protect Anne. The only information lost was information that could have been deemed as inappropriate at that time for a young lady to write, then through translation original sentence structures where changed/adapted.It is still very much Annes diary, just less information than the original holds, which is fair enough, i dont think i'd want half of my diary entries published worldwide.

[@waynehand4600]

She would’ve been a belieber

[@suhyungkim7041]

If they survived in hiding for two whole years without being detected, there was definitely someone who was in close contact with them who outed them. There definitely was someone who did it. I can't believe it's just a coincidence

[@byenye6386]

@@braniefanie4938 yeah bless a person who sent a family with children to a concentration camp

[@5pecialFX]

Yes two years are ‘whole’ 365 days a year.

[@nursen2106]

@@braniefanie4938 you should be charged, for saying this, as this falls under re-activation and call for hate

[@yve5659]

@@nursen2106 everyone should report that comment

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Well obviously...Did you watch the video?

[@mrm64]

Considering my anxiety issues, I have no idea how I'd survive living in survival mode, in a house, not allowed to come outside for years...I'd go insane. The bravery of these people..

[@Erin.56]

You would do it if you had to. You would do everything you could to survive.

[@pontiacfan76]

Be surprised what you are willing to live with. The discomfort of living in a small place with warm bed and heat. Is way better life to live then those in the camps.

[@Bumblebee67544]

It’s crazy how quickly our mind and body goes into survival mode to protect itself

[@67psychout]

You wouldn't have had anxiety back then.

[@marit4241]

For those who are interested in more History, I have read some books about the survivals, including Anne Frank's friend (I can't remeber her name now), who was kind of privilged because her father worked at the bank. She was the last person to see Anne and has a beautiful story by her own full of hope.

[@tanyasky7488]

hanely i think

[@CoquetteHome]

@@tanyasky7488 Hanneli Goslar

[@hoofhearted7898]

She past away a couple of months ago

[@debbieflaherty1975]

The daughter of the lady Otto Frank eventually married? I think her name was Ava.

[@marit4241]

@@debbieflaherty1975 i am not sure about the name, but I think you are right, it's Ava/Eva. I have started her book, but could not finish it.

[@kanyeeastlolz]

One can only fathom what Otto felt when he read the anonymous tip. It took a lot of courage to continue on with life the way he did.

[@myname604]

Its OK he wrote the book and made endless profits of gullible numpties who believe it!

[@farmerone3710]

Get a life

[@asintonic]

anne frank is a fraud. the book is a fraud and we have been lied to, by you parasites. we feel sorry for no liars. the Anne frank foundation admitted that half of her supposed book was written by her father. FU and stop push this bs on .

[@charlydoumat6946]

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank She had no idea. This shows us that, sometimes, when we are in survival mode our humanity dies. This broke my heart.

[@cellogirl11rw55]

@@aremedyfrosty Her father didn't write her diary. He just published it.

[@marissashantez6051]

It shouldn't. Ultimately the responsibility is to the Nazis. Tosave yourself and your spouse, that is a powerful motivation.

[@isorokudono]

@@cellogirl11rw55 So, you're saying it was written in it's original form in BALL POINT PEN?

[@isorokudono]

@Watch: "Europa: the last battle" | For our sake. THANK You. Seems forensics isn't just a river in Chicago.

[@bella2304]

Dearest friend, disregard all the hate filled comments. Their utter lack of compassion nor empathy speaks volumes to the void of their souls, sadly morally and spiritually dead. Be well, be safe, Believe. Gloria in Excelsis Deo

[@laurenbaker8803]

I would have rather died than betrayed people like that.

[@user-bd3zy6wo7l]

Vanderberg WAS A HERO. He saved his entire with his quick thinking! His will to live and preserve his family was infinity stronger than Otto Frank's ability to protect HIS FAMILY. VANDERBERG WON, AND THE FRANK family lost. I have no doubt that Otto would have done the same if he was in the same position Vanderberg's will to live and keep his family safe cement as a legend during a ruthless war If I'm Anne frank , I want vanderberg as my father instead of the weaker Otto Frank

[@shafikhan7169]

You don’t know what you would do until you’re there.

[@JuliaShalomJordan]

I read Anne’s diary when I was 12. Journaling has been a part of my life since then.

[@markpekrul4393]

I first read Anne's diary as a college freshman 36 years ago. Her story remains so meaningful for no shortage of reasons - not the least of which is that amazing young girl herself and the qualities which come through in her writings. There's also the fact that Anne wasn't collateral damage - she was a young girl who was intentionally sought out and brought to be deliberately murdered. The professor in whose class I read the book was himself a survivor of the camps...I saw his tattooed arm. He lost most of his family in the camps. He asked us how we felt after reading it, I offered that I was very angry, and I added that I felt much the way he himself must have felt. And then I witnessed one of the most astonishing examples of grace I've ever seen - he was not angry. He did not wish to visit revenge upon anyone who might have been involved in perpetrating the deaths of his family members, the Franks, or any other victims of the Holocaust. He had, he said, forgiven them. And it was clear that he was at peace with everything. Having him for a professor, and having his class be the environment in which I first encountered Ann Frank, remains a treasured memory.

[@eva5601]

Really? I thought that everyone had an assignment in their high school English class, about Ann Frank. My 9 Th grade teacher assigned a lesson for us. I don't remember, since this was in 1981, when I was 14, 15, but I think it was compare, and contrast, or pros, and cons, assignment.

[@nickscherrer1735]

Beautifully written, and well said.

[@jenniferornduff7835]

Just as Christ Jesus forgives each of us . 1 john 1:9/John 3:13-21

[@shllby1]

​@@eva5601 wow I read it when I was in elementary school. I guess every school is different as to when they introduce the book. its one that my own kids have read and they are 12, 13 and oldest 21. Everyone should read it.

[@Shelly-mz9yf]

1972 is when I read this book. My family was already mixed marriage and lgbt.. if thats not interesting enough. We were Irish roman catholic in 1800's . I love this country because I can have my opinion and not be relegated nor shot dead for having an opinion 🙂

[@EM2theBee]

Pitting person against person. Sowing fear and hatred of each other. Some things never change.

[@barrett7893]

Amen to that!! It is the oldest strategy in the book. To divide and conquer.. so sad 😭

[@myname604]

@@barrett7893 Exactly WHY the communists keep perpetuating these BS lies and fake books!

[@xrated2k3]

COVID ? 🤔

[@jessicalee3546]

100% correct. A house divided can not stand. It's the devils oldest tricks.

[@EM2theBee]

@@xrated2k3 The politicizing of Covid, definitely!

[@Earthy-Artist]

Back in the 1970's I had selected her book off the library shelf in Jr. High school without having any idea what it was about, or who Anne Frank was. I only knew it was about another teenage girl slightly older than I was. And being a teenage girl myself I thought reading her diary would be interesting. The book was an eye opening shock and I instantly grew up quite a bit after having read it. It was the first I had learned of the atrocities committed by Nazi's during WWII. I will always mourn in my heart for this precious girl and her family who never got to complete their lives, and for the many other poor souls who also had their lives stolen.

[@TheresaGraf]

It's hilarious reading what you say, knowing the book is FAKE. It was written by Meyer Levin. Mourn for yourself. You were lied to. And not just about her.

[@martysykes3221]

@@TheresaGrafIdiot.

[@debduree435]

@@TheresaGraf Even if that's true you can still learn from it! No need to be so nasty!

[@ahmritroets2596]

I remember reading the book in elementary school and being so taken by it. Identified with her I think everybody identified with her. The way she wrote was so personal and so articulate.❤ Long Live and Frank

[@RhettaPeoples]

My Dad took me to visit the Anne Frank house when I was around 10 or 11 after I read her diary. I’ll never forget that feeling of being in her house and realizing all that happened to her and her beautiful family. No one should ever live that way. The absolute horror!

[@coffeefish]

What about the men that went to war and lost their lives in order to free the Frank family? What about their families?

[@loafandjug321]

Does it matter?

[@chrismcdonald6554]

@@loafandjug321 do you matter?? Yes you be kind to all and maybe it’ll come back to you!

[@aletaharris2486]

@@loafandjug321 You have a serious problem.

[@michaelregan3914]

@@loafandjug321 karma

[@CC3193]

If the Franks had not been betrayed and Anne had lived a long life, she could still be alive still today at 92 years old.

[@EmpressMermaid]

I was surprised to find out Betty White was actually 7 years older than Anne Frank

[@loafandjug321]

Does it matter?

[@mulemule]

Then again, had she lived, the shattering poignancy of her ordeal, narrative, betrayal and liquidation wouldn't've brought the horrors of The Holocaust into sharp, undeniable, focus for new generations of millions around the world. Her death served a higher purpose than her survival could have.

[@DMEseter]

@@EmpressMermaid who cares

[@AmyPieterse]

Such a beautiful girl

[@baliyae]

It’s such a shame what happened to the Frank family. Just when it looked like they were going to make it out alive, they get betrayed and arrested.

[@Erin.56]

And unfortunately were on that last transport train out of the Netherlands to Poland /Aushwitz

[@user-iz1hd9si3m]

One daughter was a a war mandated labour draft dodger, what have other governments done to such people?

[@anthonywyatt8060]

This was one of my favorite books I read when I was a kid in school. While it was a tragedy and a historic re-calculation, I think that this book teaches us about humanity, even during one of the worst periods humanity ever faced before. I hope the author's spirit is at rest knowing there's a world here that doesn't and hasn't forgotten her story and continues to spread the word and her name to keep it fresh in our minds as well as a cautionary tale to be kind to our fellow neighbors. You never know what they're facing in their own lives.

[@analevy4034]

Wow, this teaches us never to trust anyone when surviving is on the line.

[@jambothebairn]

Squid game doesn't seem so far fetched after all

[@BigBlack81]

@J I HATE that your comment is so relevant. Hate it. But it's true. ✊🏿

[@pedinurse1]

Yeah not even the FBI, they are traitors too

[@jeremymain7303]

The line of the ball point pen.

[@sheepwshotguns42]

the family still had to trust the people that gave them shelter, and they never betrayed them.

[@allevangelistchristianssuc8662]

When much younger (65 years old now), I tended to think of the victims of the Holocaust as being nameless, faceless. unimportant people. As a citizen of the USA, I married a native Hungarian who'd emigrated to the USA, but did not meet her father (back in Miskolc, Hungary) for a few years. He had a number tattooed on his arm. While talking (I spoke only rudimentary Hungarian and my wife had to translate here and there), he became tearful and he told me some of the awful stories from his work camp. I suddenly had a family member who'd survived the Holocaust, & it really amazed & embarrassed me to realize how truly uneducated & unaffected I'd been by the attempted extermination of the Jews by the Germans. It's one thing to hear about millions of people's lives being affected in a history book when compared to meeting one single person who survived the horror.

[@robertbihn3005]

all I can think of is wow

[@waltertruelove5300]

This is a case that are nameless and faceless. However we must remember who they were in the attic and they were living in fear of being found everyday.

[@xxSk8ing4christxx]

I tend to think they don’t exist

[@braniefanie4938]

communists killed more

[@SadisticStang]

And I bet that made you feel all righteous and now able to go around actinm morally superior. Jesus who even talks like you.. oh I know, libtards.

[@xninasaurusrex]

This was required reading when I was a freshman in high school. At 14, I couldn't have imagined what this diary held. It told of horrors and despair during this evil regime but it also told of a young girl's strength and hope for a better life than the one she was living. It made me feel truly grateful for the life I was living and that all my problems at the time (boys, "mean" parents, not having the coolest clothes, etc.) were minute compared to Anne's life at the time, only 2 years older than me. I hope she knows of her effect on so many people in so many different places. Thank you Ms. Frank.

[@user-iz1hd9si3m]

It's use in schools at a young age is propagantistic indoctrination.

[@danomyte67]

@@user-iz1hd9si3m anti smoking ads are technically propaganda, but are they wrong?

[@user-iz1hd9si3m]

@@danomyte67 Dou mean wrong as in technically inorrect or innapropriate?

[@Gatasma]

This is an AMAZING story. The fact that they brought an FBI investigator to solve this decades long mystery. This must be turned into a movie!!

[@franktuminski8460]

Anne Frank's father knew very well that his family was betrayed by people close to them who knew their hiding place

[@clarklarsen1973]

This is one of the most fascinating, thought provoking, but also heartbreaking stories I've ever seen on 60 Minutes. It's just another example of the sheer evil of Hitler and the Nazis.

[@christophergarwood2320]

Just the same as the white man even today brutality of the black man.

[@kellyhoover7750]

@@christophergarwood2320 This Article, this discussion isn't about YOU or YOUR ADGENDA... NARCISSIST

[@christophergarwood2320]

@@kellyhoover7750 Want to moan over the evil of Hitler but not over the evils you and your Generation did to black people!? Is that it!?

[@fritzj6803]

@@christophergarwood2320 Let's not forget Leopold II of Belgium and Shark Island concentration camp in central Namibia. 60 minutes should do a story on that as well.

[@m.w.3256]

@@christophergarwood2320 white people’s frigidity when it involves the evils of slavery in the United States, the reconstruction period, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement and the era of Trumpism in the 21st Century! They would just prefer to gaslight black people’s continued discrimination and patronized black people! We are about to experience the annihilation of voting rights for particularly black people and the majority of white people could care less! Their ultimate solution; attack history of treatment as eliminating so called “Critical Race Theory”, limiting opportunities for black people to vote, race soldiers (the cops) killing black people and simply telling black people to “just get over it”.

[@ashdav9980]

Fear makes people do evil things…de-humanizing people and “othering” them into collective “bad” groups is the pathway that allows this to happen. Most people think they would have saved Anne, when in reality only a tiny minority would risk safety and comfort over possible insecurity and sorrow. The vast majority would help load someone onto a train if they thought it would keep them safe and ease their fears. First step to not repeating this is to acknowledge it.

[@VesperAegis]

If I recall, wasn't there a moment or two in Anne Frank's diary where she mischievously snuck downstairs and peered out the window and thought she was spotted? I still wonder if people had lingering suspicions from outside the warehouse, perhaps they heard a sound or two and saw faces every once in a while and decided to report to authorities "just to be sure," perhaps not realizing the tragedy they were partaking in.

[@scarylion1roar]

I have a huge textbook about the Holocaust and there's a photograph of a Polish woman carrying a sobbing Jewish woman to the Gestapo.

[@VesperAegis]

@Annedolf Frankler Honest question: How old are you? What productive things are you doing with your time on this Earth today?

[@user-yb8vr2ip2t]

@@VesperAegis Don't waste your time on anti-Semitic trash.

[@simonbutelerdellepiane5564]

@Annedolf Frankler I hope you can sort your issues and be a bit less pathetic.

[@Neptune44u6k6]

Nobody deserves to be treated like this .were all equal human beings🕯️😢🙏

[@susanjoyce-yq2mg]

Anne's story has touched the hearts of untold numbers of people worldwide. The most Earth shattering realization, to me, is that the tragedy is multiplied six million times. No, never again!

[@carmenxajay8772]

Betrayal is always from one of your own.

[@chicanica64]

A sad reality.

[@geozap4518]

Thijs Bayens, the man responsible for assembling a research team to look into the matter of who betrayed the Frank family and the others hiding in the annex, said that "we don't have 100 percent certainty" on who was the informer and that "there is no smoking gun because betrayal is circumstantial."

[@Hale-Bopp]

It's very sad and painful knowing that she died a week before the allied forces captured the concentration camp where she and thousands of others were held captives. She would have been saved and continued to inspire people as a brilliant writer and journalist. RIP Anne Frank🙏 The world loves you❤️

[@ef2718]

The landing in Dunkirk occurred in June 6/1944. Hitler committed suicide two weeks later on April 30, Officially Germany surrendered on May 7th. British forces encountered Bergen-Belsen camp on April 15/1945. 10.5 months after D-Day, 2-3 weeks before the war in Europe ended. Capturing concentration camps was not a target of the military.

[@Hale-Bopp]

@@ef2718 Sorry i used the wrong term.. I meant when the Allied found and liberated the concentration camp.

[@dianacambridge38]

@@ef2718 ... June 6, 1944 was D-Day, the (largest, most important) invasion of France by the Allies, for the purpose of liberating Europe and ending WWII. THe landings were on five beaches in Normandy, France, between Cherbourg to the west, and Le Havre, east of the beaches. Dunkirk was the site of an evacuation by the English, military and civilians, of Belgian, British, and French soldiers, just about FOUR years prior to D-Day. Per Wiki, "... the evacuation of Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. " Dunkirk is located on the coast of France very near the coast of Belgium, a long distance E/NE from the Normandy coast west of Le Havre. Dunkirk is even miles E/NE of Calais, a city on the coast that is closest to England, also known as the area that Hitler and some of his generals firmly believed, in 1944, would be the site of the invasion ... which they all were waiting for. Bring up a Google page, click on images, and then do a search for "D-Day beaches map", or for "Dunkirk evacuation map". One of the best things about the internet is researching, and using reliable, accurate sites. Wiki is one of them, with millions of pages.

[@joem7799]

Someone who was Dutch and outside the camp saw Anne behind the wire fencing. The person knew Anne and her family and talked to her. She said that Anne was unwell and very weak from starvation and she thought she had pneumonia and didn’t look like she could survive longer than a few more days. That was the last sighting of Anne. Within a week or two of the woman seeing Anne, the war was over and liberation began.

[@farmerone3710]

Bs

[@renee1961]

The Research that was done is Impeccable! The Time, and Effort is Incredible! Thank You!

[@kathleenorourke6917]

I read this as a fourth grader in Catholic school. I couldn’t put it down and it left an indelible mark on me for the rest of my life.

[@ravenbone3028]

What makes her writing so powerful was she didn't write; she spoke. You didn't read about the people in her life, she introduced them to you. It was like you were a secret. As if Anne had broken the rules, like inviting a friend over when you're not supposed to. She would suffer a terrible fate; dying a strange, cruel death in a horrible place. The epilogue to her diary is horrific because of the stories we tell ourselves; to consider what could have been. You feel it in your bones that this person was a gifted writer. That writing was Anne's destiny and she would have gone on to be an author of great renown had she survived. She is that in death, but the world was robbed 'cos she's got no more stories for us. Hers is the only one she ever got to tell. But, I'm damn glad she was brave enough to tell it.

[@jessicasparkle]

very well-written comment!

[@kathyracine1903]

As am I

[@myname604]

What makes fiction books so powerful is MSM reporting it as truth when its is in fact a forgery proven! Records show she had top notch medical care under Germany and passed away from Typhus! She never wrote the diary! Its pure fiction!

[@Adam-im3uz]

What's powerful about it ? It was a diary, not a novel. She was talking to herself, she wasn't intending it for an audience.

[@ravenbone3028]

@@Adam-im3uz That's true. But even so, we edit ourselves. You are there because she wants you to be there. Candor is a quality distinct from honesty.

[@sandrataylor2323]

No matter who betrayed them, it was a sad thing to happen. No human being needed to go through what that poor family and many others like them, went through.

[@StonefieldJim4]

A lighthouse in the darkness: a perfect metaphor for Anne Frank's moral courage.

[@willettecorley2508]

I have read the Diary of Anne Frank several times & it is always poignant. I also read the book by their good friend who helped them in hiding , Miep Gies. I don't remember the name of the book, but it was written from the perspective of what she went through trying to get food to them (with ration cards), clothing, etc., as well as the prospect of being arrested for helping them.

[@priesteresmarietje4772]

Please also read "Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family." It is the story of Miep Gies, who died at age 100 in 2010. In it she tells the story of the days leading up to the family going into hiding and then the day they actually left their home. When someone went into hiding, others told them, Don't tell me where you are going because if they interrogate and torture me, I will have to tell them. Also all the rights that were gradually taken away. It happened over a period of years. First kids can no longer attend school. Then all bicycles must be handed over~in good condition. Then all radios, etc.

[@utubefreshie]

Oh wow. Didn't know she lived to 100! I wondered what happened to her. I know the Nazis also captured and murdered some of the other people that helped the Franks. Miep Geis is a hero!

[@AvecPoesie]

That book adorns my bookcase and it is quite fascinating!

[@ssshadowwolf6762]

@Susan Wojcicki Bolshevik from Poland you’re incapable of thinking

[@Sapphire586]

@@utubefreshie I think God had a special place in heaven for her.

[@nilsacred8180]

@Annedolf Frankler bored again Abedolf Hitcoln? ;P

[@donnabaardsen5372]

I'm sure everyone agrees with "What would I have done" to protect myself and my family under the same circumstances. If faced with such horrific danger. We hope we wouldn't betray. However, I've experienced terrible family betrayals merely based on evil. I fully believe humans can and will do the most inhumane, cruel things, mostly based on that. With very few exceptions.

[@hubriswonk]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/inOodGV3ZtqqqpY Well worth the time to watch.

[@donnabaardsen5372]

@@hubriswonk I did. Doing evil comes back to bite those doing it.

[@MoTHFC]

Sometimes it's good to be a martyr instead of betraying others to safe yourself. That's what they should learn from Islam.

[@andrew_koala2974]

Donna Baardsen Know that EVIL is a transposition of LIVE They are both opposite sides of the same coin. One side is Moral and the other side is immoral. Any time you are immoral - you are EVIL The Government is immoral - POLICE are immoral - COURTS are immoral Government is a religion with a whole lot of dogmatic man-made laws that violate peoples rights - Government agents will threaten and use violence against anyone who breaches their sacred rules (Laws) even when such breaches do not harm anyone - This group of government agents who claim to protect the people from violence - use violence against those same people often killing them in the process. When you vote for them you support violence - slavery - oppression and evil. Think about that for a moment -

[@stacimilligan3412]

Just look at neighbors turning one another in for not wearing a mask. Some go as far as assulted people for not doing so. This mentality is in the mob mentality, it was in the witch trials, its in everythinng. Everyone are cowards.

[@cockytalk9193]

I first read the diary in high school and it's something I will have my own children read now. I graduated in 2015 now it's late 2022 and this book is still as important today as it was when it was first published.

[@LeoHoxtonI]

It's not - never was... And, she died of typhus.

[@missrayelyn3045]

My mom gave me this book when I was in the 5th grade. Encouraging your children to read is a gift to them. I'm pushing 70 now and am an avid reader. I will read anything except gossip rags, propaganda, or romance novels.

[@LeoHoxtonI]

The books rubbish! She died of typhus in Belsen. The End! It the AZIS had an tisdermination policy, she would've been trf to a secret facility, then offed, and no one would've known.

[@gevansmd]

@@LeoHoxtonI what does any of that gibberish mean? She was sent to Auschwitz. The diary is rubbish? What do 'tisdermination' and 'trf' mean?

[@deltaboy767]

That sent chills down my spine when he said, Thier lives depended on the Allied Invasion to go successful.

[@ismailshabazz9554]

It's amazing how this seems to be such an unheard of act of betrayal. When in fact most oppressed people were directly or indirectly crossed by there own .

[@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918]

BIG TIME. Happens All.The.Time in cultures all around the globe. Back in the “bad old days “ of the “troubles” in Northern Ireland, UNTOLD amounts of Irish Catholics would become informers and rat out members of the IRA to the British, all done in the belief that they themselves would be granted a certain amount of impunity.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

@@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918 Yes, same with the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule... People constantly ratted out on each other out of fear and that (false) hope...

[@ThePrimeSpotcom]

I believe the birds circling above the stench caused some curiosity. NO BETRAYAL.

[@greystripes2278]

so If I told you I would shoot your child/mother/best friend or you give up some intel on your fellow country men what would you do? it is not like he enjoyed and went looking for the Nazi's to give them information.

[@brahtrumpwonbigly7309]

For instance, George Soros.

[@crimsongrave101]

I remember reading the diary in middle school. It touched my heart and I feel terrible for the people who had to go through what Anne and her family did.

[@asintonic]

anne frank is a fraud. the book is a fraud and we have been lied to, by you parasites. we feel sorry for no liars. the Anne frank foundation admitted that half of her supposed book was written by her father. FU and stop push this bs on .

[@caroloneill4760]

I went through Franke hiding place 1986. What is really upsetting to me is some of the German people their same time said it was no big deal. It was a Jewish Family. I was in tears hearing the music and soldiers footsteps being played. How could they say no big deal?

[@carolinebergin4633]

I went there too during Christmas in 2018. Unfortunately me and my family couldn’t go in tickets were sold out and most of the buildings were under renovations and repairs. But just looking at her house I felt conflicted. I’m a half German and I felt terrible that the people from Germany did horrible things and somewhat guilty. But i also felt a warm light in my heart, a light of hope that people are still good at heart like Anne said. No matter who you are or where you come from life and people are special I was born by the love of an American father and a German mother. I’ll never be like the Germans and other people who made those horrible mistakes to the Jews and the world.

[@nerinav]

Anne Frank Your written words are immortal. Tyrants were forgotten. Empires were defeated. Ideologies were destroyed. But your little lovely book has survived. Millions of readers worldwide are your friends. You are never alone. You are always alive in our hearts. Grace !!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@shirleylane131]

Gave my two granddaughters a copy of her book. This story must NEVER be forgotten and neither must Ann. God bless her.

[@the_trashman]

Yes we must always feel sad for the tribe that runs all the banks in the world and are the most wealthy people on earth

[@sicsempertyrannisvi7917]

i came across iewish documents that said the 'poor iew' was 'a tactic that has worked for 1000s of years'

[@the_trashman]

@@sicsempertyrannisvi7917 There used to be a ton of replies on this and they're all gone now 😂

[@sicsempertyrannisvi7917]

@@the_trashman nothing strange in orwellian youtubeland

[@gevansmd]

@@the_trashman you need mental help.

[@deborahwade3002]

My Dutch mother in law worked for the underground getting many to safty..She and her husband immigrated to Canada at the end of the war. She will always be a hero to me

[@fuzzamajumula]

There were so many, yet so few. All heroes.

[@ricorofficial]

This is so interesting. I thoroughly love her story and have seen so many depictions of it over the years. My dad was born in the States in the same year as Anne Frank's betrayal on the other side of the globe. Her story is so empowering and sad at the same time. Still haven't read her diary although I feel like I have in many ways. As an Indigenous person, I relate to the struggle of the Jews and other dissidents during the Holocaust. It's powerful to see a flick made of the investigation into the betrayal. Thank you 60 Min.

[@bydacoola]

R.I.P. Anne never forgotten

[@megzee5078]

Reading her diary right now. It’s amazing to love someone so much who I’ve never even met or who has died so long ago. This girl was truly amazing.

[@Everton176]

She didnt write it

[@kare2165]

I visited the house several years ago. Anne's original diary was not on display and the exterior renovation of the home did not allude to the atrocities of the times. However, climbing the stairs behind the bookcase brought chills. We should never forget so history can't repeat.

[@farmerone3710]

Nonsense

[@farmerone3710]

@@themaidofmiddleearth just calling b.s. where i see it, nothing personal, good day

[@Yuyayayu872]

@@farmerone3710 go back to mommy's basement

[@-BUILT_LIKE_A_BAG_OF_MILK]

You are aware war and genocide has been a human behaviour since the earliest recordings from ancient mesopotamia? I highly doubt it will change just because we are alive and relate to a period of history filled with wars.....we never forget, we all learn....and guess what? It will continue to happen.

[@Erin.56]

When I was there 21 years ago her original diary was on display

[@erickoontz6835]

This has been a fascinating episode to watch. Thank you very much.

[@alicat1328]

Bravo for doing this episode

[@m.x.b.9949]

I remember visiting the annex when traveling to the Netherlands. So haunting but amazing. If we all thought living at home was bad, Anne Frank's life was nothing. Small, crowded, couldn't walk around much, no running water during the day. There was this energy that filled the rooms. Unbelievable experience!

[@Hippiekinkster]

Yeah, there was a vibe - to me, anyway, and apart from the claustro- phobic conditions - of being smothered by an almost palpable sense of evil. It wasn't nearly as bad as the feelings I had at Wannsee, but I don't think I was as sensitive in Amsterdam.

[@asintonic]

anne frank is a fraud. the book is a fraud and we have been lied to, by you parasites. we feel sorry for no liars. the Anne frank foundation admitted that half of her supposed book was written by her father. FU and stop push this bs on .

[@elizabethgrogan8553]

My mom gave me a copy of her diaries when we were covering the Holocaust at School. I became obsessed. I visited the attic where they lived. It was impossible to understand how they coped. I also traced their apartment in Amsterdam where the Franks lived before going into hiding. I always wanted to know who turned them in, a mere months before Holland was liberated. So sad.

[@mikehaynes1769]

@@alawitemuslimdefenceleague8792 you’re very ignorant.

[@esbenm6544]

@@alawitemuslimdefenceleague8792 said the propagandist

[@myname604]

Pure fiction being pushed to maintain the mind control of the dumb masses who believe fictions!

[@alawitemuslimdefenceleague8792]

@@esbenm6544 Lol when criminal cultural and political Zionist Marxists accuse others of propaganda Lol

[@xxSk8ing4christxx]

@@mikehaynes1769 No he just questions things

[@susancady2581]

Thank you for this thought provoking story! As sad and terrible as it is, I found myself riveted to my screen and earphones. I can’t imagine what it was like for these poor people having to hide for their lives, and for those who had to turn on their own to save themselves and their families.

[@Wilson.katie815]

I totally agree. A very well done story by 60 Minutes and kudos to them for doing such a good job on this.

[@ur_local_nintendo_ds]

Imagine..nobody betrayed her family.. the words "we made it out! The war is over" would be in her diary..she would be a writer now..

[@lisaparyani4860]

I saw her diary in a traveling exhibit changed my life, I started reading all the autobiographies by Holocaust survivors. One quote by Anne Frank was “one day I want to be a writer” she became one thanks to her father. She has changed lives.

[@myname604]

A: She wasn't murdered, it is in records she died of Typhus under medical care. B: That book was written by a man who has made a fortune selling it to the world as if it was fact!

[@sportsguydave6201]

@@myname604 Fake news.

[@myname604]

@@sportsguydave6201 YOU are fakenews!

[@snowwhitedopeydisney4396]

@@myname604 WOW!!! LOL Seriously, how in the world could you even make-up such a ridiculous story??? And where is your factual proof to back up your supposed claims?? Lol please get some help... you're delusional lol

[@cassielong6617]

@@myname604 her diary was written by Anne Frank there for her diary was not made up. Whoever told you that it was has not done the research and was not there during the time when she wrote it stop listening to the people who are lying to you turn on research and get your real facts. Don’t be listening to somebody who knows nothing about the world war two horrors.

[@mollymollie6048]

I read The Diary of Anne Frank when I was in the 5th or 6th grade…I didn’t know she had died…I thought if her diary was published, then she survived. I was horrified at the end of the book, so upset, so sad…she made the Holocaust very real to me, and I remember talking to my mother about how awful this was, and she was very supportive and comforting. They were so close to being free…damn the person who turned them in.

[@katehenderson8194]

It’s all 💯 BS

[@esbenm6544]

@@katehenderson8194 no u

[@SixDayWar67]

@@katehenderson8194 How's your basement Katey ?

[@gilchasin1022]

@@SixDayWar67 it's stench must be horrendous

[@tederiksin7783]

@@SixDayWar67 top floor does not exist...

[@renee1961]

Thank You for this video.

[@metsdudenj]

My grandparents were Dutch resistance workers and they had told me that it was well known among many Dutch that one of the secretary's sisters was the one who betrayed the Franks. The man in this story had nothing to do with their deportation

[@anemarie2984]

It is a very sad story and I don t think we Will never know the truth May be Otto Frank ?

[@CH3CH2OCH2CH3net]

Anne Frank was an extraordinarily gifted writer - no doubt about it. I do believe Anne Frank would be astonished to know that her diary is considered one of the 100 greatest books ever written.

[@joggyjames]

i toured the annex a couple years ago i will never forget that experience, i would highly recommend anyone who is able to go there once the world opens up again.

[@minirock000]

You should check out a concentration camp for a complete soul crushing experience. I went while my Infantry company was in Germany. All cold blooded killers the lot, the catching babies on bayonet types, not a dry eye amongst us. Dachau.

[@B_Bodziak]

@@minirock000 For me, Dachau was the most intense.

[@minirock000]

@@B_Bodziak You have been to more than one, then. Wow, talk about a masochist :-) I think Dachau was the first one of the Death Machines.

[@RhettaPeoples]

Same here.

[@RhettaPeoples]

@@minirock000 oh gosh I can only imagine!

[@annakaye1629]

So sad, never again!

[@drmichaelshea]

I fell in love with Anne Frank when I was in the 8th grade. After 60 years, she still represents to me something of what love ought to be. I have never forgiven the Nazis for having taken her out of the world, and in this life I probably never will forgive them. Those feelings that I had as a young man and the loss that those “people” caused has evolved for me into a very deep and dangerous contempt for everything and everyone political. I wish I could forgive, but the anger is far too strong, and not assuaged by time.

[@Ed-uz6em]

Even today half of humanity would choose themselves versus morality

[@thekingsdaughter4233]

Only half...? :-(

[@mulemule]

"Even today, *7/8* of humanity would choose themselves Vs. morality." (ftfy)

[@greggwigen8196]

It's not that simple. I have a wife and two daughters. If I'm told they are going to be killed horrifically unless I give up some information I have, that puts me in a pretty horrible position. Indeed, I can see my wife telling me not to trade somebody else's life for hers. I absolutely do NOT see my wife telling me to sacrifice our children for somebody I've never met.

[@deathlarsen7502]

@Up Yuurs awesome comment!!!! UP Yours!!! well done!!!!!!!!

[@ld3418]

100%

[@spankflaps1365]

Ann got typhus and died in Belsen only a few weeks before it was liberated at the end of WW2. If only the timings had been a little different and she survived, just think of the literature etc she would have produced…

[@totalnewb123]

Night is a good book to read.

[@xombieo0723]

Anyone can keep a personal diary/journal... it doesn't make them a literary expert or professional writer of sorts.

[@randal_gibbons]

@@xombieo0723 do you keep one? If not, you have no experience to speak from.

[@Tom_Bee_]

@@xombieo0723 have you read the diary of this exceptionally talented young author? I have and I would never have been able to accomplish anything of the sort at her age. The natural talent shines through the pages and across the years bringing life in the Annex to us all and literally breaking my heart when I found out what happened to her at the end.

[@andrewcross8244]

Wtf makes her special? I went to the Anne Frank Haus and it was above a factory. They would have been caught.

[@m5sunflower665]

Oh yes Anne’s diary was full of hope of a lovely young girl .

[@georgemargaritis2392]

She is my inspiration since my childhood. I hope she knows the impact she had on the world and that her dream became true: she is a renown writer that surhived after her death

[@r.p.8906]

I visited Anne's room on the upper floor. Small room. Small bed. Very small table. Little chair. I don't recall any windows. It is now a museum. My children and I could feel the intensity of the room. As if the walls were impregnated with fear. I will never forget. It was a very palpable feeling.

[@jjamerican93]

I visited the Anne Frank House nearly 8 years ago. Anybody who is there should see it. And that trip led me to suspect that her family was indeed betrayed by those who likely promised to protect them.

[@deathlarsen7502]

ooook sherlock holmes

[@slowridefpv9668]

Let’s put Enola Holmes on it!

[@KizmaNuts69]

no way i didnt know that

[@bonnierobinson8684]

I took my children to the Anne Frank house and as we moved from room to room I told them her story. I was surprised to find a small crowd following, who thought I was leading a tour. I have long loved her personal story.

[@projectionv.accountability1010]

@@bonnierobinson8684 I loooove that. It's so important to teach our kids. This random, distant internet stranger is proud of your good parenting!

[@Erin.56]

She would be 94 today….. (2023) oh how I wish she was still with us. I visited the Secret Annex in Amsterdam in 2002. It was amazing walking through it and being in her room. The attic was blocked off….I speak English and French. When I was there I bought the French translation of her diary. Le Journal d’Anne Frank. I loved reading it in French….. RIP sweet Anne. 1929-1945 (almost made it to her 16th birthday).

[@rucianapollard4057]

I want to visit the annex in Amsterdam! That's on my bucket list

[@standback5806]

There were many hidden Jewish families. How did anybody think to preserve this house as a future museum? Certainly the diary was not published shortly after the franks were found. The people hiding the franks out weren’t arrested. Too many questions, I know.

[@marciaadamson7032]

I love Ann Frank, And I believe she was truly a wonderful person. The world lost a angel when she died.

[@sashamoore9691]

No it didn’t

[@loafandjug321]

You seem like a nice person, but I actually only have three friends. I can’t really handle any more.

[@katehenderson8194]

Elves are demons, which I guess are technically fallen angels so

[@KDSima]

Yes we did. I think about all the angels who were lost during WW2, and in Rwanda, and the victims of the Khmer Rouge, and the people who are lost to physical, and economic violence everywhere.

[@sherryrunslate9678]

She was a young girl who had an entire life to make of herself.

[@nyerineu3388]

"First they came for the socialists, did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, did not speak out, because I was not a Trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me." - Martin Niemöller, German theologian, ca. 1934

[@TechnoLion1]

Pretty dumb quote

[@SixDayWar67]

@@TechnoLion1 We'll try Humpty Dumpty for you if you like.

[@TechnoLion1]

@@SixDayWar67 He does have a few good quotes.

[@megasizer5119]

he only really came for communists and jews. most socislists were fine.

[@jjh00242]

I read the diary when I was around her age. The diary was fantastic, and it felt like a normal teenager's emotion. Especially the romance part. It even made me write my own diary when I NEVER write. This diary teached me to be more interested in history and writing. My dream is to be a historian or author. I really thank Anne Frank for giving me that dream. I hope we get to figure out what exactly happened. I feel horrible for her and her family to go through situation like this. After all, Anne is just a teenage girl. She was so close to achieve freedom and life. An actual happy life I am greatfully living right at the moment.

[@yamil.343]

Soo sad. What a bright future she could’ve had. Her & all the children that perished. 😞

[@armiesep8710]

Fear causes all sorts terrible things.

[@jgrant5255]

Remember that when you may be forced to turn in an in vaccinated citizen.

[@scrubjay93]

Add hate and it's a genocide. I am sometimes ashamed to be a human at all.

[@armiesep8710]

@@jgrant5255 ?

[@carolinebergin4633]

Those terrible Nazis must have done something terrible that made someone betray them. They were so merciless and cold hearted .

[@eauneau]

So true.

[@stefansnellgrove]

Feel so bad for her dad he lost his wife two daughters and the entire other family they were hiding with he was the only survivor of both families. May they all RIP. My heart breaks for what these poor people had to go through and Anne and her sister died just few months before liberation which makes it even sadder. They were both so young and had their whole lives ahead of them. Their father must’ve been heartbroken to learn that his babies and love of his life all died.

[@spirittammyk]

Makes me wonder if he is the one that ratted them out in exchange for his own life.

[@stefansnellgrove]

@@spirittammyk why would he do that? He tried to come to America and after the umpteenth time of being denied he had the family into hiding. Also he was the reason her daughters book was published if he sold her out he never would’ve shared her story.

[@sparkykitty6870]

​@@spirittammykI don't believe that. I think most parents would rather die than their child.

[@Erin.56]

Anne and Margot died only a few weeks before liberation of their camp (Bergen-Belsen in Germany). So sad….

[@maggiesanford8324]

The truth will never be known - not by us. The people involved are long gone.

[@sharonmassetti265]

I’ve read her book and seen the movie. She was an amazing young girl. The world lost an amazing young lady just think of what she could have done for the good of all people.

[@jennifergridley8111]

It is heartbreaking. Every story of this kind. There were no winners in this story. What you would have to live with, just to protect your family. It's hard to imagine. But as a wife and mother, I can understand why someone would make those decisions. I fear a return of these same types of horror.

[@gailhitson6722]

The one thing we can ALL agree on is that rascism is alive and well. Genocide is evil incarnate.

[@beebuzz959]

@Ima70iqafrican It's all important to learn about, and though I've never heard about it this seems disturbingly important, and I will research it! But no matter what happened that in no way takes away the horrors of what happened to the Jews, nor does it mean they're horrible people any more than Germans are. Most Germans and most Jews are good people, but that doesn't mean ancestors of them haven't done horrible actions. And this person making the comment you're responding to hasn't said anything in support of people who did horrible actions, more against them.

[@ssshadowwolf6762]

@Ima70iqafrican way to broadstroke an entire people . My husband was Native American. There is another and people are talking about it . Your name and anti semetic shade tells me you’re a bigot which makes you what you think you’re above . Get educated and look at all of history.

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

Yes I’m afraid. There are so many similarities we should be giving lessons to teach this history , as it’s playing out. Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss.

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

@Ima70iqafrican that’s such a obtuse question. The answer is because Europe and other countries were in what is called a World War. America was fighting that war also. We lost many Americans in that war. It’s a very well known war, and taught in schools..

[@artie4017]

Betrayal? It happens every second in this 'modern' era. People relish in pointing a finger.

[@simonbutelerdellepiane5564]

I think there's no autocratic government in the west actively trying to exterminate a minority group and seeking collaboration from the rest. I get that many people have a deep persecution complex, but it's just not comparable to anything happening today.

[@hubriswonk]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/inOodGV3ZtqqqpY As long as it happens to someone else..............

[@nolabrah]

Fascinating. But sad at the same time. Great story.

[@UHDGamers-re2xj]

Anne was only one of many children killed, but remains immortalised and became a shining light in the darkness. She showed how resilient a human can be, how brave she and others was. The saddest part of her short life was the horrible way she and her sister died. Her sister died after falling out of her bunk bed and the shock killed her weakened system and Anne died of Typhoid I believe.

[@Erin.56]

I think they both died of Typhus only days apart….

[@TheQueenVixen]

This is the wildest thing I learned most recently that Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank born in the same year, 1929

[@arias6720]

I went to Amsterdam 2009 2010 and I had the opportunity to walk through Dr. Frank Ottos bookshelf into the secret room. I will never forget the experience I hope that if you get to go to NL you visit this.

[@nikoteen9110]

I have been there as well.

[@2ndlifeseekers282]

No you didn't, stop lying

[@sashamoore9691]

Free Jodi Arias

[@sashamoore9691]

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[@goldilox3147]

My grandfather faught in this war 9 th armored division I’ve always felt such a connection to this war even watching documentaries like this . he never liked talking about it when I had to learn about it it I told my mom I said I get it its the past but we have to learn from it I hold this time period very careful in my family I always also why family was important to him. This was always a question of mine because my though is you can’t trust anyone just your family I still to this day understand why it is so painful the look on his face whenever it was mentioned just you get it you don’t ever want to see that. But as a person who loves history I hope we can’t repeat it he is rested now hopefully reunited with people he’s missed but he’s missed a lot on earth

[@shirleyleighton]

Ann you may have left this world but through your wonderful diary and your wise words you have kept faith in humanity.

[@artistlynn667]

Her book is an incredible testimony for history, to keep her memory alive, and to bring us into her reality. I couldn't put that book down.

[@breakmylegs7294]

Her father edited her romance with Peter, he may have been her lover

[@kevinmcdonald951]

@@breakmylegs7294 We all know that.

[@jakebaker6218]

An innocent girl writing her dairy would have never thought the posthumous fame she will get after 75 years of death. May her soul rest in peace.

[@Trevilianband]

Anyone else here from watching “A Small Light”?

[@willcollins5660]

Me. Great TV show, cried several times.

[@isabelleambers]

Anne said she wants to go on living even after her death, Well I think she is going to live in the minds and hearts of people for generations. I will say Anne's diary was not what I expected I thought it was going to be a typical 13-year-old yelling and kind of talking about her day. But when you read it and you think about being stuck in a tiny space with seven other people 24/7 never being able to go outside never really being able to have friends other than the people you're living with that must have been really hard and I know for a fact that Anne frank will be a person that will never be forgotten Anne's greatest fear was to be forgotten but I don't believe that fear will ever come true I think Anne's spirit should be able to rest easy knowing she has touched not only the minds of millions of people but hearts as well. I hope that Anne and everyone that was in that annex and who died in the Holocaust I hope they can rest easy.

[@anng.4542]

Now THIS is the kind of good work that 60 Minutes used to be known for.