Monday, October 5, 2009

Anne Frank on Film, July 22, 1941




The first, and only known video of Anne Frank released. Anne at age 12, leaning out the window of her apartment, watching a wedding. Anne died aged 15 of typhus in the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, seven months after her arrest and just two weeks before British and Canadian troops liberated the camp.

Like many, Anne Frank has occupied a singular and simultaneously horror stricken and awe inspired
place in my heart since I myself was about 12 years old. She was gorgeous, innocent, intelligent, talented, unique, fiercely alive, and doomed to die in such a horrible way that words fail.


And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
Anne Frank
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