Rare video footage of Anne Frank
GIL SHEFLER
WASHINGTON — The only known video footage of Anne Frank has just been released by the Anne Frank House Museum.
The museum uploaded to YouTube a 20-second video filmed in 1941 in which the young diarist is briefly seen leaning out a window.
“The footage is very moving and unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” Annemarie Bekker of the Anne Frank House was quoted as saying in press reports.
The film was taken during a family wedding about a year before the Franks went into hiding in 1942.
They were discovered by the Nazis in 1944 and Frank was deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died at age 15.
Her posthumously published diary has sold millions of copies and been translated into dozens of languages.
JTA
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