Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family?

[@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.

[@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.

[@EnemyOfThePeople1984]

@@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....

[@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

[@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.

[@David-g1p-v8k]

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

[@danomyte67]

@@David-g1p-v8k anti smoking ads are technically propaganda, but are they wrong?

[@David-g1p-v8k]

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

[@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]

❤️

[@MikeGervasi]

Her diary left a mark on anyone with a heart.

[@AvidiaNirvana]

Yes, truly an inspiration to write it with a ballpoint pen before the ballpoint pen was invented. Such talent...

[@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.

[@Earthy-Artist]

I hope I get the honor to meet Anne in heaven one day. There are lots of people I'd like to meet there for the 1st time, and many other people I'd love to see again, I'm talking to you my dear Grandma❤& Grandpa ❤.

[@melissapinol7279]

"What is remembered, lives".

[@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".

[@lilybond6485]

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

[@organicdudranch]

@JoeM 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

[@nocelebs]

@JoeM Beautifully put!

[@samspade5962]

This world may have failed her,…but god certainly did not, I know that along with so many others she went to a dimension we call heaven.

[@shirleylane131]

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

[@sicsempertyrannisvi7917]

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

[@sicsempertyrannisvi7917]

@The Trashman nothing strange in orwellian youtubeland

[@gevansmd]

@the_trashman you need mental help.

[@gevansmd]

@@sicsempertyrannisvi7917 liar. What documents did you come across?

[@tundrawomansays694]

@@sicsempertyrannisvi7917Please cite your sources. Thank you.

[@erictaylor5462]

I saw a family plot of a wealthy family who were hiding Jews. 7 children, between 18 and 7, all died on consecutive days. The Nazis learned that the family were hiding Jews and asked them about where the Jews were hidden. When they refused to say, they took the eldest child outside and put a bullet into her brain. They returned the next day and did the same thing with the next oldest kid. And repeated over the next 5 days, until no children were left. Consider that before you judge those who betrayed the Frank Family. While the family whose burial plot I saw stood fast against the Nazis, would you have done the same? The bravery of these kids (the youngest only 7 years old) was incredible. The bravery of their parents even more so. I don't think anyone could say they would be as brave unless they are faced with such a thing for real. I was 16 at the time, the same age as the second child who was murdered. I'd like to say I would stand there in silence and allow myself to be murdered, but I'm not sure. I've never faced such a choice, and I don't think I would tell you if I had. If I had remained silent, then I would not be alive to tell you. If I had betrayed the secret, I'd be too ashamed to tell you.

[@AirQuotes]

The family knew they'd be killed no matter what. What a horrible regime

[@cl8804]

that's what makes it so jewcy!

[@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 .

[@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.

[@ScherrerMadness]

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 🙂

[@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.

[@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!

[@lisaintheuk3347]

@TheresaGraf, please get your history correct before making comments. I’m not sure if I’m more upset over your ignorance or your intolerance of others. Mainly I feel very sorry for you.

[@KrystyneY]

​@TheresaGraf you sound like a crazed conspiracy maniac. Trump much?

[@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@nomdeplume2213]

She didnt just get famous this yr lol

[@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.

[@ladwad6819]

sadly it’s a independent school so they can basically do whatever they please.

[@I_am_a_cat_]

Whaaaaaaa??? Man wtf

[@SaltyChips-dh3mp]

Incorrect; it was a sexually graphic adaptation written & illustrated by 2 men that was read.

[@TranslateToEnglish]

Vote red.

[@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..

[@Allie8567]

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.

[@sharrielee911]

Totally agree with all of these comments😊 you'd definitely be surprised to know what you would do to survive I couldn't imagine what the Frank's and the others that were doing the same thing just to survive 😔

[@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.

[@CosmicTrollstopper]

my respect for that guy 📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈

[@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

[@Allie8567]

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.

[@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.

[@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”.

[@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!

[@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 !!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@angelvaldez8048]

I love you Anne. Thank you for leaving us your diary and sharing your life with us.

[@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.

[@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 .

[@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.

[@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!

[@whitemiasma5288]

so no one else matters then.

[@susanjoyce-yq2mg]

@@whitemiasma5288 I wonder about the person who got that from anything that I said. Look inward. You'll find issues there.

[@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!

[@TheRealJamesKirk]

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 .

[@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

[@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.

[@farmerone3710]

Bs

[@severinefisteberg8893]

Côme on she was ill undernourished and had typhus!! She would have died like many other jew. Mzrgot Caught typhus too like other women..it was her fate maybe ...nothing would have changed and she was skinny and tired hungry sad but thats life . We dont know exactly when thé camp was liberated May she rest in peace like her Sister and mother .. And Many jews died when thé camp was set free even à few days after of exhaustion and illness .Sad but True. Only à few of them survived.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@lasmisita]

Very smart for her age.

[@Neptune44u6k6]

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

[@JuliaShalomJordan]

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

[@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."

[@jessicaselenecenteno]

Exactly

[@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.

[@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.

[@zack.dar40]

What a precious child who deserved every good thing this world had to offer. Love from Pakistan to her and any victim of blind or brainwashed hatred.

[@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!

[@EnemyOfThePeople1984]

@@myname604 Fake news.

[@myname604]

@@EnemyOfThePeople1984 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.

[@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

[@Semtex_1992]

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.

[@Allie8567]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@thembones1895]

Meh. After years of studying the holocaust/complicity, these human truths are trite. Agree true, but trite. The bigger questions for me now focus around why places like the Netherlands fell so quickly and easily to Germany. I believe that the real lesson here is that communities and governments can't be passive. The majority of the governments in Europe failed their people in the face of Hitler. Leaders fleeing, soldiers abandoning the front, leaving the civilians to fend for themselves. And even today most of Europe still has little armed forces, and the average European today scoffs at the idea of militarism and defense. I don't think much was learned. It's probably easy to poke fun at the more brutal and militarized cultures like the US or UK, but when the going gets rough, their people will be ready.

[@katcrow9988]

I love that the Danish and Germans are willing to share the good/bad and ugly truth. America needs to learn this. All history needs to be taught so that we do not repeat it!!

[@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...

[@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.

[@marissashantez6051]

They were directly oppressed by the germans.

[@anng.4542]

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

[@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.

[@james-faulkner]

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]

@@james-faulkner For me, Dachau was the most intense.

[@james-faulkner]

@@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]

@@james-faulkner oh gosh I can only imagine!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@sld1776]

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

[@32446]

It’s all backed up with evidence and many suspects discarded.

[@noemibarrios4056]

what’s your point?

[@noth606]

@sld1776 I have the distinct feeling that you think you're saying something that isn't blatantly obvious and built into the process. That isn't a problem, you're probably the only one who thinks it is. If I say "I'm going to get ice cream" it's built into it that even if my favorite is strawberry, I will get something else if they have no strawberry. EVEN if there is NO book deal for my thoughts on "ice cream and the meaning of life".

[@Repelstreeltje]

@@32446not really. A lot of historians have already disproved this theory and van den Bergh is not really considered a suspect. The Anne Frank foundation dismissed the book. The book is no longer sold in the Netherlands because they didn’t use standard research methods (can still be bought as an ebook but no print).

[@ghostofgarycoleman5251]

@@32446 Is that your prison camp tattoo number?

[@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

[@CosmicTrollstopper]

my respect for that guy 📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈

[@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.

[@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...

[@queen_of_domination]

I’ll bet Anne Frank would have been a wonderful woman if she wasn’t murdered and betrayed. She was wise beyond her years. [(Edit: 1-22-2022) I’m shocked by the comments. But, to qualify my comments….YES, Anne Frank was murdered. The fact that people behave as if she was not makes me very sad. Anne Frank did not beg to be taken to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. She didn’t beg to be forced to starve, nor did she ask for scabies and Typhus. Additionally, none of the other Holocaust victims, asked to be raped or sent on death marches. All of the victims were there because of flawed man-made laws. Because of those laws, as well as the agents who enforced them, millions became victims, and died. They would not be dead if they weren’t placed in such inhumane conditions. For those reasons, those who died in the Holocaust were murdered. Don’t disrespect these people by downplaying the circumstances of their death.]

[@sashamoore9691]

Hella!!!

[@loafandjug321]

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

[@queen_of_domination]

@@loafandjug321 ❤️❤️👌👌👌

[@siobhancosgrove7277]

Anne Frank wasn’t murdered in the camp. There was Typhoid in the camp and both Anne and her older sister Margot died by the disease.

[@poppacapps5573]

She wasn't murdered.the people who exterminated her were well with In the law. It was the people who hid her that were breaking the law. When I look at policing in America today see the exact same scenario. Don't think it can't happen here.

[@erickoontz6835]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@joewarren3608]

I first read Anne Frank's diary back in the very early 1970s when I was in 7th or 8th grade. Somehow the story touched me and stayed with me. After all, when Anne died, she and I were approximately the same age. Fast forward about 15 years and that is when I began to reread Anne's diary again and again, about every three years or so. And still I finish each read with feelings of horror and great sadness.

[@joewarren3608]

@Wackie Jackie you aren't wackie. You are a lunatic.

[@SJ-wq3os]

She lived in those dark times, ❤and her writing is pure light

[@AZ-kr6ff]

The diarrhea of Anne stank.

[@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.

[@Allie8567]

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

[@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!

[@alisonmorton9465]

Anne Frank is one of my role models. Her heart, bravery, and positive spirit in such a scary situation makes me want to be strong like her.

[@franktuminski8460]

I would like you to learn about the brave Polish children who participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. They did not have to fight but choose to, even sacrificing their own life. There is one section in the Warsaw cemetery called "Powazki" where you can visit their graves. It is very sad that in some cases families lost all their ll children. This is true heroism.

[@GDnewbie]

*was

[@michaelwilliamson4759]

Yes. If I ever want a great fictional book with a fantastic tug of emotions and no facts... I will read the "diary."

[@audreykennedy90]

​@@michaelwilliamson4759you doubt WW2? People died, millions of people.

[@gevansmd]

@@michaelwilliamson4759 disgusting comment by a despicable person.

[@JoshuaWaltz-fj4rg]

RIP Anne Frank and her family. You diary was a treasure. You gave so many people hope.

[@Julsdoy]

Compeling no doubt, kudos to everyone involved in the investigation. Another wonderfully produced story by 60 Minutes.

[@epajarjestys9981]

@Jesus is LORD no u

[@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 .

[@racourdav]

Otto Frank, not only was he a pillar of strength, he was a very wise man. He knew what would happen if that became public knowledge, and perhaps a part of him understood. I always cry when I see stories about the Holocaust, Anne Frank and I have to regroup. I’m a descendant of slaves and the knowledge of knowing the cruelty, the horrors and hardships they ALL went through is overwhelming. Great story…

[@husnaakhan7538]

You have my support sorry to hear what happened to your family i agree with you need to end homophobia, white supremacy,Racism blm and stop asian hate

[@FreeSpirit47]

I'm 1/2 Native American. It's difficult for me to see the atrocities forced on them. In present day there is an ongoing insurgence of Native Americans reclaiming their cultural practices.

[@kylecox005]

I bet you don’t stand up for the unvaccinated

[@tracysample6942]

@@kylecox005 Why would we when going unvaccinated is a choice?

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

@@tracysample6942 just like being jewish was a choice in germany at the time

[@laurenbaker8803]

I would have rather died than betrayed people like that.

[@Peter-w4s1e]

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.

[@taurondur]

@@Peter-w4s1e I wonder what drugs or pills do you take? Must be good stuff!

[@sarahj6995]

​@@Peter-w4s1egross

[@maskcollector6949]

@@Peter-w4s1e You have no idea what a hero is, he snitched.

[@rn9119]

I went to Dauchau when I was 16, I read Anne Franks Diary the year before. I never forgot that visit. I will never forget how I felt, how I saw people felt. Broke my heart then as it does 35 years later💔😞😞😞😞

[@brega6286]

Never Again !

[@renee1961]

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

[@justbeingmesparks6538]

Anne Frank is my friend in my head. I pray that people come to understand how CRUCIAL it is that we protect American Democracy NOW! We MUST keep anything like this from happening in the United States - it is really disturbing what is going on right now.

[@phewkyu7079]

Usa deserve what is coming. The good times are long over! No jobs, unemployment, education reduced to a minimum, almost every fourth household is in deep depth, this country is done! Just a matter of years..

[@ilonabaier6042]

Agreed bit everyone knows democracy in USA is on a steep decline and will slide into the abyss in this year's election.

[@Nic1Moreno]

@@phewkyu7079 I bet your also a US citizen... most KZbin videos are country oriented , so if you hate the US leave

[@ec6443]

@@phewkyu7079 I'm guessing your a pos from China or Chinese living in America. If you hate it dont love here. We dont need or what you here anyway.

[@ssballs]

@@ec6443 I think you're having an issue w/ China or the Chinese. Back to school, you.

[@soangiewrites5639]

"The question is, what would I do?" Very important points made at the end of this report which have me pondering my own humanity, as we all should.

[@chad3232132]

Nobody should ever feel ashamed of looking out for their own life over others. He did what he had to do and should feel no shame.

[@Yette]

I visited the Anne Frank Haus in 1998 and felt a dark, suffocating presence while touring the artifacts. I returned decades later and again experienced a foreboding bleakness. I pray those captive in The Annex never felt it.

[@shannonobrien9922]

Do you pick up other energies????? I'm an empath and pick up most energy good and bad.....sometimes it's a lot! The town we are living atm and it has LOADS of negative energy and ANGER like you wouldn't believe: I'm trying something to totally turn that OFF because it's too much

[@melissapinol7279]

You were probably feeling the terror and anxiety that the people hiding there felt every day and night.

[@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..

[@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]

@@2ndlifeseekers282 😂😂 lmfaooo

[@nata3467]

This was amazing. As a History major and teacher find this so powerful. So appreciate the Rabbi's words- history has to be faced to fully understand who we are.

[@JohnSmith-uy7sv]

Everyone will give an account on judgement day for the good and evil they did in their bodies. No one will escape it.

[@jimscanoe]

@@JohnSmith-uy7sv The *Sky Daddy* scam continues.

[@JohnSmith-uy7sv]

@@jimscanoe and everything just fell into place perfectly and millions of animals and creatures and humans crawled out of the same pond and then the planet created it's own atmosphere exactly to support all the life forms and the perfect gravity and the perfect angle to the sun in th exact rotation around it so we don't freeze to death or burn up. Yes, keep denying the unbelievable truths of the Bible. Keep pushing it away from you and deny your arms and legs and say they are not yours and why everything supports everything else. They don't make a drug that can cause such delusions. He is called satan, the father of lies. Stop listening to him. Come to Jesus Christ. You celebrate his birthday at Christ mas every year and his resurrection at easter every year. Don't be a fraud. Believe or stop celebrating.

[@alicat1328]

Bravo for doing this episode

[@bella2304]

Anne Franks story is so terribly sad, even today it evokes deep pain at the loss of such a wonderful soul :(..

[@theghostofbabanovac7069]

i agree it's story is even better than Tokien's LOTR

[@EMPtaticz]

@@theghostofbabanovac7069 To bad both of them aren't real lol

[@epajarjestys9981]

@@EMPtaticz Wow, so based. So what is the source of your "knowledge" that Anne Frank's story is not real?

[@bella2304]

@@EMPtaticz Spoken as a true anathema, morally and spiritually bankrupt

[@theghostofbabanovac7069]

@@EMPtaticz ;)

[@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..............

[@jessicaselenecenteno]

EXACTLY

[@marylawson5906]

When I’m down or bothered by a problem I think of Anne.I think of her words her hope and her spirit. And I realize my problems are so petty He Spirit soars to this day Thank you Anne

[@myname604]

A fiction book written by a man years after she died of typhus in a German care facility!

[@SadisticStang]

Jesus save this woman from the purple koolaid

[@patricdaniels3760]

It's not really effective to hide from your problems though, unless you are a spiritual person, then your spirit can be free to soar no matter where you decide to hide.

[@pedinurse1]

Poor innocent child, who thought the world of stupid mankind.

[@nilsthatboi]

​@@myname604braint dent spotted

[@roodbennett]

Reading her diary, I felt her words. Beautiful soul and her spirit lives on.

[@amydavis4945]

It's such an horrific thought. "I would do _anything_ to save my family... my children". Would I turn in the family of someone I didn't even know, knowing that they would be sent to death camps were God only knows what would happen to them before being gassed to death? I certainly wouldn't do it just to save myself... but to save my family... my children. I don't know. If I did, I know I would lament over it for the rest of my life. If I didn't, I would lament over that choice too, for however long I had left. It's an impossible choice. I can't "blame" this man for his choice... I blame Hitler and those around him for forcing this man to make this choice.

[@CourtneyK87]

Well said

[@SuAva]

Also keep in mind that regular people during the war didn't know what was going down on the other side of the train ride, they just knew it was no good and no one ever came back. But indeed, it's an impossible choice and the blame lies on those that made him choose and those that took them away.

[@amydavis4945]

@Pitu Guli I suppose you are one of those that also believe the Holocaust never happened either, right? The FACT is that the book is real, and Otto Frank fought in court until he died suing these people that called it false. The whole "part of it was written in ballpoint pen" is an absolute lie, and there was no "guy that penned it", so no one got $50,000 for doing so. These false accusations are generally made by people that say the Holocaust isn't real either, for some sort of political agenda.

[@amydavis4945]

@Pitu Guli You are the one set in your views that are NOT set in fact, so stop stating that it is. I have more to do with my life than argue on KZbin about whether the holocaust actually happened, and whether Anne Frank wrote was in the book. Believe what you want, I really don't care. I know the truth, and that's all that matters to me. It's funny how you claim to have no political agenda, but what you say is politically motivated and I suspect you are one of those trying to deny the State of Israel... which explains your beliefs. Whatever. You can save your "Yeshua" blessings... I have my own spirituality.

[@chad3232132]

@Pitu Guli 66 million victims of the Holodomor?!? Ukraine only had a population of ~32 million during the famine. Did everyone die twice?

[@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%

[@Jennyhbell]

It’s extraordinary that Otto Frank didn’t pursue the accusations in the letter he received either to protect the possible betrayer and/or protect the image of his people and not provoke antisemitism. He possessed strength and decency beyond a word’s description.

[@josephgraham4531]

Maybe the father ratted his daughter without realizing it you know talking with other Jewish families in hiding so scared one of them who was definitely female called the gestapo

[@franktuminski8460]

What kind of decency is to protect criminals?

[@sanspareille]

That note was not from 1945. That note was from 1958, which plummets the whole theory. The cold case team are a bunch of crooks

[@laurenbaker8803]

Why would the cold case team want to do something crooked?

[@midbreezy]

This is the most impactful book I read as a child. I remember wishing the end was different. I mostly couldn't understand how something like that could wver happen, unfortunately I am observing how something like that gets set up.

[@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?

[@dr.aniasara7038]

It's not the first time that people who are the same group have betrayed one of their own, it still takes place.

[@loafandjug321]

Does it matter?

[@bettetetreault1029]

It was probably not betrayal, but instead, a desperate attempt to survive.

[@loafandjug321]

@@bettetetreault1029 Social Media can't accept the fact that in the end self-preservation is a basic human instinct.

[@davidlynch9049]

@@bettetetreault1029 The reason might give you comfort, but it was a betrayal nevertheless.

[@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."

[@basilbcf]

When my Dad was stationed in peacetime Germany in the 60's he took us to visit Anne Frank's house. Even thought I was a young boy, I will never forget the experience. (My Dad was also involved in the D-Day invasion (after WWII he separated, but re-joined the Army 16 years later). He also took us to see Dachau concentration camp - he wanted us to understand the atrocities that had occurred and that he had helped fight against.

[@Vydio]

I saw Dachau when I was stationed in Germany. The German tour guide made a point many people hadn't considered .... the first victims of the Nazis were Germans. Dachau was the first concentration camp ... was especially creepy to me because it was darned near in the local populaces back yard.

[@onlyelio6443]

If you don’t mind me asking, has the house looked different before in the 60’s compared to now?

[@maggiesanford8324]

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

[@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.

[@Allie8567]

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

[@David-g1p-v8k]

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

[@Spooky_515]

That’s what I remember most about the book. She really got her hopes up after D day. She kept writing about starting school in October and showing people the best side of her that she kept hidden. Tragic

[@SuperHuscarl]

A brave young woman with a heart of gold snuffed out before her prime. It’s a story we don’t hear too often, but are well acquainted with, unfortunately.

[@plagues-haze-3987]

What was she famous for i never heard of her

[@SuperHuscarl]

@@plagues-haze-3987. Don’t know.

[@mpdoriscar]

She was a victim (I believe age 15) of German mass killing of Jews in German occupied Holland. Her family was betrayed. She died in a concentration camp of Typhus sometime during the spring of 1944.

[@squidlipssupreme168]

@@mpdoriscar she died of typhus

[@squidlipssupreme168]

@@plagues-haze-3987 her dad invented ball point pens

[@iowagirl19631]

I'm not Jewish and all of this happened decades before I was born. I of course read The Diary of Ann Frank and it broke my heart even as a child to read it. The betrayal seems unimaginable. But we didn't live in that atmosphere of fear. It's so easy to judge looking back. I hope I wouldn't betray others, but we just can't know the desperation these people were living with.

[@janreznak881]

Written by her father. Don't get to upset by the fiction.

[@Tom_Bee_]

@@janreznak881 citation needed...

[@james-faulkner]

That's the point of the story here. I came into this rabid expecting post vengeance. I have never read the book being a science fiction reader, mostly. I still wanted justice until they explain who he was. We all say we would do anything for our families. I began to wonder though what is harder, turning people over to the enemy repeatedly or accepting your fate? Is there too high a price others will have to pay so you can save your own neck? For him, there obviously was not too high a price others would end up paying.

[@Juror_Number_Eight]

@@Tom_Bee_ same citation he uses to claim people never landed on the moon.

[@Tom_Bee_]

@@Juror_Number_Eight ah the Moon. I see. Where the remaining Nazis escaped to after Operation Paperclip with help from NASA and the CIA. Got it.

[@m5sunflower665]

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