Anne Frank Remembered Page #6

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We found some spices.|But we had to move out...

...because we recognized people|living in the house...

...because they made|a mistake upstairs.

That's what I later realized.

I didn't know it was the Frank family.

We did not know.

We were not supposed to know|who was living in a house...

...because of what I explained earlier.

You didn't speak about people|living somewhere.

So we heard them flushing the toilet...

...so we moved out because that|was a sign people were upstairs.

And well, we were not there|with an agreement of anybody.

"Wednesday, March 29, 1944.|Dearest Kitty:

Mr. Bolkestein,|the cabinet minister...

...speaking on the Dutch|broadcast from London...

...said that after the war, a collection|would be made of diaries and letters...

...dealing with the war.

Of course, everyone pounced|on my diary.

Imagine how interesting it would|be if I published a novel...

...about the secret annex.

The title alone would make people|think it was a detective story.

Seriously though,|10 years after the war...

...people would find it very amusing|to read how we lived...

...what we ate and what we|talked about as Jews in hiding. "

For 6 weeks, Anne thought constantly|about the message from London.

Then she made up her mind.

She had wanted to be a journalist,|a famous writer, to travel the world...

...see Paris and Hollywood.

This was her opportunity.

Starting in the middle of May 1944...

...she began to furiously rewrite her|whole diary from the first entry...

...with a view|to future publication...

...at the same time as keeping up|her regular diary entries.

"Tuesday, June 6, 1944.

Dearest Kitty:

'This is D-day, '|the BBC announced at 12.

'This is the day.|The invasion has begun. '

A huge commotion in the annex.

Is this really the beginning|of the long-awaited liberation?

The liberation we've all talked|so much about...

...which still seems too good, too much|of a fairy tale ever to come true?

Will this year, 1944,|bring us victory?

We don't know yet.

But where there's hope, there's life.

It fills us with fresh courage|and makes us strong again.

The best part of the invasion...

...is that I have the feeling|that friends are on the way.

Those terrible Germans have oppressed|and threatened us for so long...

...that the thought|of friends and salvation...

...means everything to us.

Maybe, Margot says...

...I can even go back to school...

...in October or September. "

With the Allies advancing,|the spirits in the annex soared.

Otto Frank kept a map...

...tracking every advance of|the British and American troops.

But the odds were stacked against|those in the hiding place.

Of the 25,000 Jews who hid from|the Nazis in Holland during WWII...

...some 8 to 9 thousand|were discovered by the Germans...

...or betrayed by their Dutch hosts.

Many of the Franks' neighbors, some of|whom were known Nazi sympathizers...

...knew there was something going on|in the back house...

...at 263 Prinsengracht.

Anyone could've called the|authorities to collect the reward...

...for betraying Jews in hiding.

Anne herself chronicled|many acts of carelessness...

...that could've led to the suspicion|that could easily lead on to betrayal.

It has never been proved|how they were betrayed...

...but on a sunny summer morning|in 1944...

...two years after they first stepped|behind their secret door...

...their world collapsed.

It was the 4th of August...

...1 944.

You know, it was always my task|to go first...

...up in the hiding place.

Also this day.

I go up, took my shopping list...

...talked with the people...

...and came down.

After an hour, I was|working in the office.

Bep in front of me,|Koophuis on this side.

The door...

...goes open, but I did not look.

And it was quiet.

In a moment, I look up...

...and there was a man standing|before me with a gun to me...

...and said:

"Quiet. No words."

Was there ever a plan...

...for this sort of situation?

No. No.

We were so...

...sure that it never would happen.

The authorities were alerted|by an anonymous phone call...

...that there were Jews|hiding in the Opekta offices.

Four Dutch policemen from|the German security service...

...Ied by an Austrian officer,|went straight to the secret bookcase.

I could hear the voice of the Nazi.

And I heard this man...

...speak with a...

...with a Vienna accent.

And if you know, I'm born in Vienna.|I know that accent.

I stand up and say to him...

...in a nearly friendly mien:

"You are a Vienna.|I'm a Vienna too."

And this one sentence...

...was perhaps too much for this man.

He was standing there...

...Iooked at me.

And when he come to him--|He come to me...

...so near to me that I feel his...

...his adem.

His breath, I feel his breath.

"Aren't you ashamed of yourself...

...helping Jewish baggage?

You deserve to receive...

...the worst punishment.

And you know what that is."

I did not say any word.

I was....

He was going in my office from|the one wall to the other...

...as a wild...

...animal.

Animal.

After a while, he stood still...

...Iooked me a little friendlier.

"Out of personal sympathy,|you may stay...

...but woe betide you if you flee.

Then we'll take your husband."

When the Germans captured|Jews in hiding...

...they looted everything of value.

Officially, this was meant to finance|the transportation of the Jews...

...to the Polish death camps.

But corruption was rife...

...and Jewish valuables often lined|the pockets of Nazi policemen.

Needing a container for his loot...

...the Austrian arresting officer, SS|Oberscharfhrer Karl Silberbauer...

...emptied the contents of Otto|Frank's briefcase onto the floor.

And thus, he left behind|Anne's diary.

After the Franks and the other|peoples were away...

...I come here in...

...and found...

...the diary scattered on the floor.

Ellie and me, Bep and me.

Bep and me, we saw this.

"That is the diary of Anne!"

"Please take! Take it!"

We took all the things...

...but I was afraid...

...that I had not all|the paper of the diary. I knew that.

But I was so in hurry...

...because I was afraid|that this Austrian man came again.

-That the officer--|-That the officer....

Because he say,|"l come back."

Within two weeks of Miep Gies|saving Anne's diary...

...the Dutch firm of A-Puls stripped|the hiding place of its possessions...

...to be sent to Germany to aid|bombed-out German civilians.

Silberbauer and his assistants|had taken the eight Jewish prisoners...

...to Gestapo headquarters, housed|here in a former school in Amsterdam.

Of the helpers, Johannes Kleiman|and Viktor Kugler were also arrested.

Though not the two women,|Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl.

Kleiman and Kugler were|then sent here...

...to Amersfoort labor camp|in Holland...

...shown in this film during|a Dutch Red Cross inspection.

Kleiman was released in September|due to bad health...

...and Kugler managed to|escape in 1945...

...when the train in which he...

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