Anne Frank Remembered Page #10

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And then suddenly, I heard|somebody calling me...

...and it was Anne.|And this was awful.

The first thing, we both|started to cry. Then I said:

"What are you doing here?|You are in Switzerland."

And she answered me, "We wanted|this rumor to go around...

...because we hoped then the Germans|will not look after us."

And then she said|she had nobody anymore.

And this was not right, and I am|so very sorry because she said:

"My mother is dead." And her mother|really was dead at that moment...

...but she couldn't know. She was sure|her mother was killed when she left.

But her mother came out later,|was not killed...

...she just died of exhaustion|in the beginning of January.

Her sister, she knew, was|very, very sick already.

But now her father.

Look, if it was Mengele|or somebody else...

...they wouldn't know how old you are.|They would see only naked bodies.

And Mr. Frank was 55 years old...

...but he was only one month|in the Dutch camp...

...so he looked still very good.

And the Germans just looked and saw|somebody that still can walk...

...so they sent him|to the right, to live.

But Anne thought they go by the age,|and she was sure of it.

"My father is dead. He is an old man."

And I always think, if she had known|her father is still alive--

After her sister died,|she just was without any hope.

Then maybe she had--|You know, it was only...

...one month she died before|the liberation.

But she didn't know, and so she|had really nothing to live for.

At this time, as a special prisoner|being kept for possible exchange...

...Lies Goslar received|a parcel from the Red Cross.

My friends, everybody gave me a glove|or a little sock and a little bread.

So I came back at night|with such a small package.

And then I hear her again,|and we were speaking.

I told her about my little sister.

I told her my mother wasn't|alive anymore. She didn't know.

Miep only told her that my--|That the baby died.

And my father was then|already in hospital.

He died 25 of February,|and this was before.

And I throw the package over...

...and then I heard her|crying or shouting.

And I couldn't understand.|"What happened?"

"The lady next to me caught the|package, and she run away with it."

And she didn't give her anything.

I said, "l will try for another time."|And really, I tried another time.

And this time she caught the package.

And it was the last time I saw her.

More than 50,000 of Bergen-Belsen's|inmates died in 1945...

...as disease and starvation|ravaged the camp.

Typhus, carried by lice, was|a particularly horrible killer.

It is terrible when you|are covered in lice.

Anne had thrown away her clothes...

...and she came to us crying...

...wrapped only in her gray blanket.

Lientje (my sister) lay sick...

...and I couldn't do anything...

...except give Anne|some clothes to wear...

...and give her some|delousing material.

And I promised to come|to her the next day...

...to come to both of them...

...because she said,|"You have to come.

Margot is so ill."

At that time...

...Margot was already mortally sick.

I suppose she also had typhus.

I'm not sure.

But the next day,|I couldn't get away...

...and it took at least four|or five days...

...before I went to her...

...and then they were already dead.

Both dead.

And all of a sudden...

...I didn't see them anymore.

But you would not pay attention.

The place was empty.|We were sick.

And when I was ill,|to speak about myself...

...is why I couldn't pay more|attention than I did.

They're not there anymore.|They are dead.

That was that.|Outside in the entry guard...

...all of them were swept away.|Boom. They are outside.

I don't know whether I can|talk about it.

Meat was traded...

...bodies.

It's very difficult....

Leave it.

I can't say any more.

The bodies from our barracks...

...we almost couldn't lift|them anymore.

They were thrown onto a pile...

...between the barracks...

...and inscribed on my eyes...

...are these people...

...in every possible position...

...in every possible form...

...covered in snow...

...completely naked...

...because they would|always be undressed.

On a pile with wide open eyes.

We tried to close as many|eyes as possible.

It didn't always work.

Bergen-Belsen, as filmed|by British liberators:

A place where humanity had been|reduced to the worst indignities.

Cannibalism became|part of a desperate struggle...

...to quench the most|appalling hunger.

Only a few hundred yards away...

...the Germans kept supplies|of food and medicine...

...while their prisoners died|by the tens of thousands.

In November 1943, a year|and a half before her death...

...in the safety of her|Amsterdam hiding place...

...Anne Frank had a nightmare in which|Hanneli Goslar appeared before her.

Hanneli Goslar in|a concentration camp.

"I saw her there, dressed in rags...

...her face thin and worn.

She looked at me with such sadness|and reproach in her enormous eyes...

...that I could read|the message in them:

'Oh, Anne, why have you deserted me?

Help me, help me.|Rescue me from this hell. '

And I can't help her.|I can only stand by and watch...

...while other people suffer and die.

All I can do is pray to God|to bring her back to us.

If only I could help her.

Dear God, I have everything|I could wish for...

...while fate has her in|its deadly clutches.

Hanneli, Hanneli. If only|I could take you away.

If only I could share|everything I have with you.

It's too late, but I'll never|forget her again...

...and I'll always pray for her.|Yours, Anne. "

She didn't do so much wrong,|you know, if you are in this age.

But this is one of the reasons|that I tell the story now...

...because it is the other way around.

Yes, today I am standing here,|and she is dead.

And so I am quite obliged|to tell about her.

And she wanted to be so very famous.

I can't help a lot of this|but a little bit.

I think, "What a waste,|such a young life should end...

...and without any reason."

She could really have given|something to the world.

The whole thing is crazy.

My father died there one week|after I saw her.

I don't know.|I cannot judge this whole period.

Nobody can understand it, I think.|I don't know.

Auschwitz had been liberated two and|a half months before Bergen-Belsen.

On a freezing January 27, 1945...

...a Ukrainian division of the Soviet|army, accompanied by a film crew...

...arrived at the site of the most|successful mass murder...

...in mankind's history.

The last SS guards had already fled...

...Ieaving behind only those|too young or infirm...

...to be led away on the|now-notorious death marches.

The gassings at Auschwitz had already|stopped the previous November.

The gas chambers dynamited.

But in a wild attempt|to cover their tracks...

...the SS dragged thousands|away with them in desperate flight...

...in the biting cold.

Those of the prisoners|who could not keep up...

...were shot at the side of the road|by their German escort.

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