Almost 60 years after Anne Frank died of typhoid in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, video footage - probably the only moving images of the famous diarist - has been released for the first time.
The
footage comprises of black-and-white images of the girl who grabbed the hearts of millions around the world with her diary, in which she gave a personal account of World War II.
Shot in 1941, the
20-second video shows - among other people - Anne leaning out a window in her home in the heart of Amsterdam.
Anne and her family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained power in her country of birth. When the Germans occupied Holland in early forties, the Franks were trapped in their home. The situation worsened when persecutions of the Jewish population increased and various anti-Jew laws were passed. To protect themselves, the family went into hiding in the secret rooms of her father Otto Frank's office building.
The Franks were eventually betrayed, and shipped off to concentration camps. Both Anne, her sister and mother died. Her father was the only survivor. When he returned to Amsterdam after the war, he found his daughter's diary.
It was published for the first time in Dutch in 1952, and translated in English in 1952.
