Anne Frank Remembered Page #2

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So I know her--|All the time.

I could do that just as well.

I will start with the sentence|my mother said always.

My mother said, "God knows everything.|Anne knows everything better."

This describes Anne, you understand?|I don't know in English....

She knew everything better.

Anne was-- In America you say "spicy."|A spicy girl.

She always was friendly with the boys.|The boys liked her.

The girls liked her. She also always|was in the center of the thing.

Then she had something I never saw,|not before and not afterwards.

She could take out the socket|out of the shoulder...

...and she would sit,|and everybody looked.

And then she made out,|and knock, knock, knock.

You have to be very careful. You can|end up with an orthopedic doctor.

She liked it, and everybody was looking|at her. And then she was happy.

When he came to Holland, Otto Frank|set up the Opekta Company...

...a Dutch subsidiary of a German|concern, selling pectin...

...a substance used in making jam.

The progressive Otto had a film|produced to promote the product.

In the early days, he had|four key colleagues, all non-Jews.

One of those employees was|an Austrian who'd grown up in Holland.

Miep Gies.

It was a very fine place to work...

...because we understand|all the people in the office.

We were very close,|was friendly together.

He was always our boss...

...but also our father.

We can go to Mr. Frank with|all our troubles and sorrow.

The office boy and general helper|from 1933 until 1939...

...was Henk van Beersekamp.

Mrs. Frank was different|from Otto Frank.

Otto Frank was a familiar,|friendly man...

...who treated me as an equal...

...and with kindness.

Mrs. Frank was a bit...

...well, maybe|she had been accustomed...

...to better things|in life in Germany.

I don't know.

Margot was a bit subdued...

...but Anne was a dear.

I had lots of fun with her...

...because we would make|funny faces...

...which she found amusing.

I remember one time I did this:

And she always split|her sides with laughter.

And when I did that, her tongue...

...would move to and fro.

But it was fun.|She was a great girl.

Dutch Nazis putting on a show|in Amsterdam in 1938.

Though Hitler had infiltrated|the police, the civil service...

...even the prime minister...

...in the years|before the war, Holland...

...was generally good to|its Jewish refugees from Germany.

Despite these scenes|of Fascist collaborators...

...the Dutch and German Jews believed|that they would be safe in Holland...

...far from the Fhrer|in their former homeland.

Few, very few,|tried to leave for safer shores.

And Otto and his family|were not amongst them.

Sometimes I said to Mr. Frank:

"You must go out of the Netherlands.|It will be danger for you."

Miep Gies

"No," said he.

"ln the first World War, the German|came not here in the Netherlands.

So they come the second time,|also not."

And I said to him,|"You must go to America."

"No, I stay here|because I love the Netherlands."

The faith of Otto Frank|and thousands like him...

...was catastrophically misplaced.

By May 1940, Hitler had conquered|almost all of Europe.

Austria, Poland, Norway, Denmark...

... Yugoslavia, Greece,|Romania, Bulgaria...

...and most of France had fallen to|Germany's air force and storm troops.

Europe's low countries|remained as a tantalizing morsel...

...to be swallowed whole.

Then by the 14th of May, 1940,|it was all over.

Five days after the Germans|had finally...

...smashed through Holland's borders,|the Dutch capitulated.

In Amsterdam, Hitler's victory|was greeted with black humor.

My father made himself|look like Hitler.

It was wonderful how he did it.

Here was the hair|and the black mustache.

The Franks lived next door, and he|would ring at the door and come in.

I remember them all,|you know, the first moment.

They were very|frightened what happened.

If you could think Hitler|didn't come to their house.

But it was very funny how everybody|was frightened at the moment...

...till they...

...till they saw who it was|and what happened.

What happened to your father?

He died in Bergen-Belsen.

The German vice tightened gradually.

First they conducted a hearts-and-minds|campaign to win over the Dutch...

...their Aryan brothers.

THANK ADOLF HlTLER

JEWlSH QUARTER

For the Jews, it was another story...

...as their freedom|was gradually restricted...

...by a never-ending series|of anti-Jewish decrees...

...already familiar in Germany|and other conquered territories.

JEWS PROHlBlTED

By 1942...

...no area of Jewish life|was excluded from German control.

Jews Prohibited|By Law

Everything that was fun in life|was forbidden.

We were not allowed to go anymore|to a park or to a swimming pool.

We were not allowed to go to shops.

Only to Jewish shops and only|between 3 and 5.

You had to wear the star.

You had to have something with you that|would look if you are Jewish or not...

...even if you had the star.

Then things were--|You were frightened.

You just wouldn't go out.|To school and home, and that's it, yes.

How one of the friends of Anne said:

"Everything I did, I was afraid|it is forbidden."

Well, the effect|of these restrictions...

...was, I think, mainly...

...because it came inch by inch,|very slowly.

"lf that's all, we can bear it."

We always had a stiff upper lip,|and we tried to make the best of it.

If you can't|go to public school anymore...

...there are good Jewish teachers.

If you can't go to concerts,|which was important in my family...

...there are fine Jewish musicians,|so we make music at home.

So we always tried to put|the best spin...

...on whatever happened.

And that way, I think,|we tried to ward off...

...thinking about how we were|being more restricted...

...and what was going to be sure|to come afterwards.

Otto Frank,|always the perfect father...

...rented movies to show the girls|on the living room wall.

Rin Tin Tin was a particular|favorite with Anne.

She and her friend Jacqueline van|Maarsen created a cinema of their own.

Together we made little cards|to get in.

Of course, everybody could come in,|but we wanted to make it look real...

...by making these little tickets.

"Jacqueline van Maarsen...

...is invited on Sunday,|the 1st of March...

...with Anne Frank, Merwedeplein 37...

...1 1 :
00...

...for...

...a movie.

Without this card, no entrance.

Please inform in time. Row 2.

Seat 2."

THE LlGHTHOUSE BY THE SEA|WlTH RlN TlN TlN

This film supplied the entertainment|for Anne and her friends...

...when they celebrated|her 13th birthday...

...her last in freedom.

Her prized gift that 13th birthday...

...on Friday,|the 12th of June, 1942...

...was her diary...

...a present she had bought|with her father a few days before.

From the beginning, Anne addressed|her diary as a special friend...

...with whom she would conduct|a secret correspondence.

Her first entry was this:

"I hope I will be able to confide|everything to you...

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