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the following dramatization is based on melissa mueller's biography of anne frank

and original research and interviews by kirk ellis some of the scenes in the film can also

be found in anne frank the diary of a young girl but the film does not use the words that

anne used in the diary to express her feelings the following film contains realistic depictions

of concentration camp life including brief nudity viewer discretion is advised

i want to be a champion skater and a writer i want my picture in all the magazines maybe i'll

be a movie star i want to be different from all the other girls i want to be a modern woman i

want to travel i want to study languages language is in history i want to do everything i want to

he's always looking at you and do you want to come over and play monopoly tomorrow

santa you know my grandmother's coming to visit i'm simply too busy

why don't you ask hannah i'll be chilly so religious quickly

quickly

bye

no no i'm not saying you're a bad cook of course i'm sure your husband loves the way

your strawberry jam is hello mr kleinman hello anne meep where's father one minute he's in the

store room with mr coogler and mr van pels thank me may i say how nice you look today

the problem is you're using too much sugar too much nutmeg

not enough coriander ah yeah um black pepper with uh ginger no close him

your mother telephone she was quite worried you should have gone straight home

what you doing mr cooler is trying out some new recipes your mixing still needs work but

you may have something that's high praise indeed mr krugler as you know mr van pelt

has an infallible nose m a joke for you what is black and white and red all over

what a newspaper

tell me everything you see she's still as curious as ever you see your book

let me see wait grandma has another surprise and here's your present and

a fountain pen

look margo it's beautiful and treasured always thank you grandma i'm so glad you came to visit

grandma will be living with us from now on girls would you like that oh yes very much and

why don't you try out your new fountain pen yes

immediately excuse me don't be too long the gosslers are expecting us make sure she gets

ready let her have her fun he did you spoil her terribly otto she should have come straight home

oh i'm starving and please mind your manners and i know night margot i thought you'd like the gospels

of course i do i just wish hannah lee's family wasn't so religious i'd rather be at the movies

oh

if there's only a fever hands germany will recover not my words

what's to keep that madman from annexing holland and liberating his germanic brothers

the dutch are different sometimes after i think you have too much faith in people

poor mother she's used to better god willing edith one day we'll all go home until then

we get by be thankful you've got central meeting can you help me with that mrs

gosling oh that's very kind of you such a sweet girl you're lucky hannah's got two left hands

sometimes i miss a full-time servant but we don't have the money to pay servants ah the dutch ones

are hopeless anyway simply cannot be relied on mother anne says you shouldn't call them servants

say made god knows everything but anne knows everything better

you like to spoil yourself you like it even better when other people spoil you

does that make me a bad person

good people and bad people have one thing in common they both make mistakes

only good people can admit their mistakes and learn from them

tell me about the paulus that's a story for children not a little woman like you

no i want to hear it

the pawlers live here with us you can't see them but sometimes

if you keep absolutely still and really listen you can tell where they're hiding

but beware because you never know which pawler you might find

good paula or bad caller who's always causing trouble

i don't mean to be bad paula sometimes

sometimes she just escapes doesn't matter as long as you always keep good paula in your heart

daddy couldn't they be the same person good poor and bad paula

why yes i suppose that's possible

maybe good paul is afraid of what people may think of her that's why she's bad sometimes

at least that's what i think and you always told me i should think for myself so i did

papers say hitler has his eye on poland now holland will stay neutral whatever happened

still all this nazi talk bad for business

i have fewer patients now but no matter always be jewish cavities to be filled

say ah

mr pepper not until we're married and come out of the water

or to say something and do us your mother says

you know it's not good for you to go swimming here try yourself you never let me have any fun

i don't want you getting sick you know how frail you are

where are we ever like that no i don't we were never like that

stars

hey

why was i not invited to this party

it's mr goslow look it's your dad

you see and you told me he'd never come to holland happy birthday again

we must have a picture a picture yes put her picture yeah adolf is your birthday present

the girls and uncle adolph

hannah point at your dad everyone pointed uncle adolf

and the free state of danzig ending the efforts and hopes of diplomats for peaceful settlement

the roar of gunfire replaces the talk of statesmen and the curtain of war falls over europe

warsaw is from classic shell holland

the nation's first full work of defense

wasn't even sure beautiful much too pretty to lose her head i didn't like the king very much though

tyrone powell was much more handsome just like the boy i'm going to marry you've already chosen oh no

too many admirers just like paul marie antoinette the world would come here

daddy no organ i don't think i'd like that very much no um the british will see to her hitler

violating repeated proclamation of holland's neutrality in the current conflict german troops

what do you think you're doing

go grab one

i ask you mr geese what good is the dutch army in the face of a blitzkrieg they'll be riding to the

front on bicycles i wish i could disagree with you but i'm afraid i can't curly all this talk

of an invasion is nonsense why haven't they what's stopping them mind you stay out of it i'll do the

thinking if you please mr frank listens to his wife you see what he's like knows all the answers

beware of marriage mr geese in my experience its merits are greatly overrated

my sister begs me to send the children to london to live with her

and will you how can i keep them safe there it's better if we stay together hope the

best ah here's a joke for you you've heard it

so

um

five days was all it took now people are throwing themselves on the windows where does panic at his

hands we learned to adapt we adapted in germany i wanted my baby to be born in a different world

not like the one we left it's strengthened all over again i mustn't let myself think that not now

my friend who saw it yesterday

it must

good outside is that good

you know bureaucracy

annelise marie franklin

wait for me is this her she's adorable her name's gabby i'm still not used to having a

sister she keeps me busy all the time you mustn't spoil her hannah no one likes a spoiled child

i'm not sure if i care for your outfit lucy if you don't mind me saying so mother makes me wear it

she said we should show some allegiance whatever that means papa's been out of work for so long

mother said hitler would make jobs here the same thing he did in germany lucy what are

you doing get away from those girls not to worry mr clymen will beat the nazis at their own game

paperwork because pecticon is registered as a jewish business it's necessary to create

an entirely new company and with your permission jan i'd like to call it geese and company whatever

i can do to help but you must be careful mr frank the bureaucrats are silent collaborators

you'll be listed as supervisory director with no responsibilities mr coogler

will take over day-to-day operations along with mr kleinman it'll be a purely

aryan enterprise all strictly legal on paper i won't exist

is there something wrong with us the jews no

no you must never think that you must have done something awful

ah

i was a little girl like you in vienna when the war came and there wasn't enough

food to eat one day my mother bundled me up and she took me to the train station

she put me on a train to holland she hung a signer on my neck and she said goodbye did she love you

anymore yes she did that's why she did it there was food here and family's willing to share it i

didn't know that at the time i felt so sick and so alone when i got a little older i realized

good people sometimes find themselves in trouble without having done anything wrong

do you think i'm a good person yes i do

only one we'll get another one later when times are better this one's yours prove that someone's

finally going to make an honest dutch woman out of you i'm already honest oh i do i do

i now pronounce you when and why

two left

gone you dance divinely me oh thank you man you too yan she leads i just follow

may i see your ring again please me

i want one just like it when i get married and husband like yan too you'll find them i did

curly just one more time sit down please put you only make a fool of yourself

you wouldn't refuse a lady's invitation mr frank

well i'm afraid that at the moment you have a rival mrs

chance

this is

the name of the man who discovered the basic laws of geometry was pythagoras write it down please

yes i'm afraid that however interesting your lesson might be i can't see it

ah well um you will you change places with miss um frank frank james please

the square on the hypotenuse i like your eye jackie the first thing i noticed about it

people say my hair is my most attractive feature you think they're right yes of course you know

we live on a vader plane it's not far away you can come to my house if you want we can

do our homework together i like that very much so dark we're going to be famous friends i can tell

at the montessori school i was very popular i cried when mrs cooper has told us we couldn't go

there anymore at my school there were these awful boys they started calling us two girls we were so

scared we ran away i don't know maybe it's better this way think about it if it hadn't been for the

germans this is moji she's going to have kittens soon because she keeps meeting lots of men um

mommy would it be all right if shaky stayed over one night she wants to wait i have a

better idea i'll come over to your house we can talk about things they don't want us to

you want to see something really magical mother designed that

best people used to wear dresses she stopped making them when the war started she thinks

they're out of place after the war i'm only going to wear the finest of clothes miss anne

frank was radiant at the princess ball last night wearing a beautiful gown of gold lace

you don't you've read it three times i love [ __ ] from that spout she's my favorite writer

didn't you love the part when leo proposes to you yeah i'll be you can you be leo

hold my hand you you're crying let go of my hand leo what if

i told you that you were my one true darling oh leo kiss me you

jackie if i tell you a secret will you promise not to tell anyone

i promise i've never been kissed by a boy before have you what was it like kissing it was

you'll find out i want to be a real woman with a woman's body i'd love to know what one feels

like may i no but we're best friends aren't we of course we are we'll always be best friends

if one of us ever has to go away let's promise to exchange letters promised

remember the circumference of the circle formula two five are right please

not quite the chatterbox sanctions frank perhaps you'd like to share your wisdom with us a little

essay perhaps entitled uh quack quack quack quack mrs quack and bush say 500 words due tomorrow

oh these blackout drapes make everything so stuffy i feel as if i'm suffocating sometimes

it's all in your head you know that isn't true i'm a very delicate creature mr frank

very delicate

i tell you the germans will lose this war and they keep asking you when we must be thankful

for what blessings we have blessings utter really our families are still together that's enough

attention everyone quack quack quack said mrs quackenbush a story by anne frank go ahead and

we're all listening once upon a time there was a mother duck and three beautiful ducklings

who lived in a lake ruled by a proud swan quack quack quack said mrs crack and brush to her brood

quack quack quack said the ducklings keep your voices down lord this one his feathers all in a

ruffle be quiet or i'll bite you and then you'll never quack again this one was not a nice one he

was a black squad and all the other ducks in the lake were afraid of him but not mrs quackenbush

you won't bite these children she said to the swan who answered i'll do exactly what i please

they're only ugly little ducklings and i am their master and then he began to bite the ducklings

save us mama the poor little ducklings cried and then mrs quackenbush began to crack she cracked

and she cracked and she cracked stop it stop that infernal quacking by this one putting his wings

over his ears but mrs quackenbush did not stop not until the black swan flew away never to return

she gathered her ducklings around her and together they swam off happily ever after singing quack

run up quack

i've been thinking it might be a good idea to take over the building behind us

i'll show you what i have in mind

it's um it's two rooms and the bathroom below an attic upstairs it's a perfect laboratory space

wouldn't you say a place for mr van pelt and me to cook up our little experiments

what do you say yep why not business is good the war we can afford to expand

yep next

the germans are feeling especially generous today four stars for a single textile coupon

must we be branded now too so it appears and you must pay for the privilege

once you come to my school now it's almost over i am

especially history i love history such a long walk to the lyceum

i miss having a bike personally i'm glad mine was stolen at least the germans wouldn't get it

quack

quack quack they can be so childish sometimes

look listen to darling i asked daddy to buy it for me for my 13th birthday

it's going to be the best ever the most smashing

i'm sorry um oh you and frank um you go to school with my cousin vilma

i'm hello hello silverback oh hello hello this is my best friend jackie how do you do perhaps

you'd allow me to buy you a hot chocolate i love chocolate chocolate is your name really hello

helmut but my grandfather doesn't like it so he calls me hello instead don't your parents

think it's funny i don't know i haven't seen them in four years you came all by yourself

must have been so so dangerous i've never had an adventure like that before

i suppose oh my dad she never talked about it much

she died last winter she had cancer oh um i'm sorry i never got to tell her how much i loved her

i'd like very much to see you again if that will be all right you don't have a girlfriend do you

well there's orzo of course she's very pretty yeah really we're not as interesting as you are

we can meet on wednesday evenings my grandparents think i go to wood carving lessons but actually

i go to zionist meetings i'm not a fanatic or anything you know mostly everyone just yells

i'd much rather be with you well here i am i can call for you then

that would be nice until wednesday then

bye bye

um

oh come in me

sit down

you've no doubt read how the germans have emptied the provinces of jews and

sent them all here to amsterdam our own jewish council urges cooperation

let's talk of mass deportations labour camps you know those poor boys they rounded up last february

they were sent to labor camps not one came back we have a great secret to confide in you

edith the children and i are going into hiding mr van pulse and his family will join us

we're not going to wait for the nazis to drag us away will simply disappear

where will you go yeah i don't understand in the annex at the back of this building

we make the move on the 16th of july that's less than a month away

kleiman and coogler have been helping to move in certain belongings and supplies a little at a time

we'll need someone to rely on for necessities to act as caretaker

you know how much i trust you here in the office but but i'm asking well what

i'm asking of you now yes i'll do it of course think me it'd be a great burden not without risk

the penalties are bound to be severe i said yes i meant it thank you me

and marco do they know no not yet let them enjoy their lives for a little while longer

so

thank you so much thank

she's just excited i'm sure

quite a glamour girl wouldn't you say

the souls are almost like real leather you're so unlucky

who's that boy oh that's peter van pels he's always hammering something out in the garden

behind us he's a dope mommy says i have to be nice to him because his father works with pem

i think he's cute

peter would you like a biscuit um and bake them herself great

i'd have fun thank you come in i'll get her

hello good afternoon everyone

hey go cheese everyone the show is about to begin

oh um those are for you thank you

i know what you're thinking but i'm not in love with anybody we're just friends

my grandparents don't improve my sinu they say

you're not old enough well you shouldn't do anything your grandparents don't approve of

love always finds a way i'll see you later then goodbye goodbye

margo what do you think of hello

he's very nice and decent it's easy to see he's in love with you yes it's rather fun

how old were you when you got your period and little girls shouldn't talk of such

things tired of being a little girl i want to be a woman well it's different for every girl

woman your turn will come you just have to be patient for how long frank yes son here

so

oh

marvel

i have to go over to the front passes don't answer the torah until i get back do you understand why

you your father's got in the summons don't worry he's made plans i'll get back as quickly as i can

and has to be told break it through as gently as you can

and remember keep absolutely still there to think no one's home i understand and

what's happening they've come for margot we always thought they would come forward over me

never the children

visiting some friends at the jewish hospital plan for the 16th but this changes everything

what i will know what to do

daddy i thought i'd never see you again

oh be silly huh

what's happened

and listen to me i want you a margot to pack a rock sack there won't be any time tomorrow

teddy what's going on i'll explain everything later i'll go call mr clyman he has instructions

fetch meep and jan have them come around and see her off the streets by curfew

these pictures are important and i know it's hard i have to try the sensible i don't care

my stars mean everything to me

jackie's on the phone jackie yes and remember

jackie and you won't believe it you've got a baby now did you ever think she'd become a mother who

yep haven't you seen the new [ __ ] van marksman book i'm almost halfway through it sounds divine

i'll move tomorrow we can read it together you can be you and i'll be leo just like the last time

all right i'll see you tomorrow i can't wait to show you the cover it's so darling

i have to go now our guests are here goodbye jackie yes

go on now finish packing your clothes

help mr frank

this will put people off the track if anyone inquires tell them that we've gone to switzerland

oh first this to my mother

you know what to do

tomorrow

how long will it be in hiding a few weeks perhaps a month or two until the war's over

where we go

will it be in town

the country you'll know tomorrow we'll all be together that's the main thing

why be able to write to jackie she must never know

mochi can i take mooji with me i'm sorry

we'll leave some food and a note for the neighbors it isn't fair no no

don't worry we'll see you hurry marco before gets locked bye

please

everything will be fine you'll see

even everything

we can't live in the past dude

only the future and quickly please

my brother

oh

and marco she's waiting here thank god

dear jacqueline you're the only person i can tell about what happened

but you must promise not to say a word to anyone don't answer any questions about where we've gone

if you do it could be very dangerous for us

since you've never had to disappear i'll try to give you an idea of our life i call

our hiding place the secret annex and strange as it may seem it's actually quite cozy here

you'd be surprised to find out that we're just above daddy's office

up the back staircase and behind a small door open the door take one giant step and voila

daddy and mommy's room is right behind the staircase margaret and i reside next door

we've even got a bathroom upstairs there's a larger room with a kitchen

the van palsas sleep there at night but during the day it's a big living room

you have to stay upstairs as long as the workers are still in the building

vampires has a room off to the side much smaller than mine and there's an attic for storage

there are warehouses on both sides of us and neighbors all around

we have to be invisible day and night

still see light sweets at first it was only daddy and me doing most of the work

mommy and margo eventually got over their shark and started to help

shirts it was amazing to see how many of our things daddy had managed to sneak away

i wasn't the only one who brought my memories with me daddy kept his

old soldiers trunk it was hard for all of us not to think about the life we'd left behind

i miss my old room but at least i have my movie stars to keep me company

with a little luck we can all be happy here until we go back home and now our annex

really is a secret mr coogler mr clymen had a bookcase built in front of our little doorway

you have to be careful when you go downstairs to bend down low and try not to bump your head

everything was ready by the time the vampels has arrived on july 13th

well i told mr van pence that i'm not going anywhere without my little puppy

peter van pels dope that he has bought his cat

even though daddy told him not to mrs vampires asked me to love peter like a brother

that's impossible mummy says he's shy but i think he's rather boring

now we're to have another guest the other day daddy announced we have an opportunity

to save one of our acquaintances mr pfeffer has asked me about a hiding

place now we know this will only add to your worries so the final decision rests with you

it's just as dangerous for seven as it is for eight

so were agreed from what we can tell mr pfeffer is quite congenial for a dentist anyway

that's all i had better right for now i'm sure we'll see each other again jacqueline

but probably not before the war is over until then a little kiss from your best friend

anne

what is that

good morning me good morning mr frank good morning here you are some cigarettes if you don't mind

and some peppermint tea i've been having the most frightful dizzy spells lately

things are harder and harder to come by whatever you can do will be fine for all of us so meep

what's the news have you seen jackie i have a letter for her but daddy won't let me give

it to you when i finish with the shopping we'll have our talk and one of our friends mr pfeffer

he can't come tomorrow he has patience the idea what nerf tomorrow's friday tell mr purple we

will expect him monday that'll give him time to settle his affairs but not a day later i'll see to

it

uh maybe you remember one of our salesmen mr winter may take your coat

how are sales and hubberson oh what bad uh-huh very bad

the way

but you you're in switzerland no no that was only a story hello

welcome well here it is mr pfeffer nice to meet you don't worry it's only like this when

the workers downstairs are out to lunch for the rest of the day it's quiet you'll have to learn

the rules of course there are scans of rules mr pepper appreciates the value of discipline

their idleness is our enemy our motto work and hope listen to the prussian officer

breakfast is at 9am except on sundays and holidays when it's 11 30. lunch is from 1 15 to 1 55

and then we expect visitors visitors our help is of course yeah thank you

dinner after the nightly news broadcasts and lights out promptly at 10.

come on what does that mean

i poor charlotte she thinks i've been spirited away to the country

who would ever believe that i'm right here in the center of amsterdam

would you like some more vegetables mister thank you i think we're all very fortunate here

what a ridiculous thing to say i don't think it's ridiculous at all it's a wonder i don't

cry all the time thinking about my friends she's been taking her valerian drops be quiet putty

you're spoiling my digestion children are nothing of what goes on in the world here here

where's my pillow what have you done with it this time

i ate it how am i supposed to know where it is keep losing everything here

then your predictions never come true when have i ever been wrong well have you ever been right

i think it's a bit odd and in there mr bever he's so old answer the child you won't

mind

we used to have such fun before before we were married you mean

ah do you always take so long only as long as i need to i'll have to have a word with your

father

it would have been different with the gustlers with two children and a baby on the way

we've been over this edith if the baby had cried what then it would have given us all

away this is no place for a woman as pregnant as she was at least i could have taken care

of her i still can't believe it mother and baby both dead mother don't it would have

been different if if i had been there to help you don't know that he is that's just a tuttle

i will never know you have to try not to think of things outside these walls

it's hard i know but we can't be responsible for everyone just for ourselves

so

so

uh

you mustn't do that i can't help it i like watching people sometimes i make

up stories for them imagining what their lives are like what else would be like if

and

margo don't i look different to you

different

i wanted it to be my own sweet little secret for a while i've only told that she fetched some things

from the chemist for me i'm happy for you really if only people just stop treating me like a child

are you busy after school do you think they have jewish schools in switzerland

of course they do but there aren't any germans to force you to go there

i still can't believe she left her shoes behind she was so proud of them remember you really saw

them right on the floor let's just kick them off did you see the diary it was gone that we looked

i'm sorry

i'm sorry my wife

they took her away last night

he sent you this i've seen for it

can't even tell me where he is i don't know

see that he gets this of course thank you you're so kind

tell him i love him that they'll wait

damn you you

than beasters we have experienced so far in this but in the end all the oppositions fell together

and all our folks submitted can't stand to hear that man half the time i don't

even know what he's saying this is not the end it is possibly the beginning of the end

and it is certainly the end of the beginning how do you know what that means mr franklin

if you ask me the british should spend more time bombing germany less time drinking tea

shut up already every time you try to fix something it only gets worse the americans

are tall why don't they come why do they take so long they got their hands full fighting the

japanese you mustn't despair it if the invasion will come they'll be here soon yes but will we

daddy will you please ask mr pfeffer why he thinks it's unreasonable of me to insist upon

me being able to use my own desk i have important work to do work you understand

and besides there are other places you can go this writing of yours you could do it

in the attic perhaps it's only a diary after all childish pastime childish no no you needn't argue

what i propose is this uh anne should have the desk say twice a week from four in the

afternoon until 5 30 and mr pfeffer may use it the rest of the time but oh we agreed

we all have to make small sacrifices anne you mean me i have to make the sacrifices and it isn't

small i'm not a little girl anymore mr pfeffer has a right to the desk and don't i have rights i work

just as hard as anybody else here i just don't want that man pouring through my private thoughts

that's hugely remedied as you think

i have it here

this will keep your diary safe from prying eyes thank you daddy my little woman

pardon me

never let it be said that anne frank failed in her so-called studies on my account

thank you

uh

to save us

what are you doing not everyone here is an ex-soldier

this is my partner our indispensable me hello and beb nice to meet you this is mr

vamarin he'll be taking over as foreman at least until beth's father feels well enough to return

well i'm not much for talk

but if it's a hard worker you're looking for i'm you man

fine um show in the storeroom please bec i'll do it

our salesmen give their orders to bep once a week everything you need to fill your orders

is right here we have two kinds of pecticon products spices and jams well this would fetch

a pretty penny on the black market i wouldn't know about that uh your office is going to be in here

what's this blue paint for ah that's to keep the spices out of the light

what does mook think she doesn't trust him she thinks he's a thief ah she's very protective

charlotte peace is so boring i can never be a housewife sleep being in prison

kind of temporary your father would be back soon enough i'm sure of it no they say it's cancer

so much suffering in the world is that all you can say mother that will only make matters worse

honestly i don't know how you could be so thick sometimes um that's no way to talk to your mother

don't listen to them you know what i do when things get difficult i go upstairs

there's a window in the attic where you can see the old chestnut tree in the yard

that's the most wonderful branches when they're in full bloom it's beautiful

when i look out i feel

better somehow makes me wonder if god is a lot closer than most people think

do you read that in one of your books such a font of knowledge you've become

i suppose i'm just hopeless excuse me

don't you think you should apologize jonathan she could be such a trial sometimes you're quite

a trial yourself so people keep reminding me it's only natural for a girl and i mean a young

woman of your age stop i don't want to hear that i'm like all other girls i'm not i'm me

and frank and your mother's your staunchest defender i've heard her with mrs van pals

she's your friend i don't want her to be a friend i need you to be a mother someone i can look up to

to set an example your mother's a kind generous woman she's a dutiful wife she's

born a great deal without complaint you always take her aside i've seen the way you kiss her

you kiss her the same way you kiss me and margo

i think even you're not in love with her never say that

you wouldn't want me to take away your diary would you daddy i'm sorry i'm really really sorry

i just i can't help the way i feel

mommy and i we're so different we're like night and day

she doesn't understand anything about me have you tried to understand her

and

you're right i must have fallen asleep how long have you been watching me i've just come up

honest um beans and store them everyone's gone now so it's safe to bring them up

hmm

so

so

what do you think you're doing

what's in that building back there it does not belong to us

is that right you are supposed to be at lunch get out go

oh

um

because

oh

coogles records are getting sloppy

the curtains in the front office

they're open again they're always open on weekends mr pepper oh i'm so sorry i forgot

tell me how am i to collect any papers surely no one will see that's how it starts

no one will see no more hair no one will pay any attention then what

hello peter hi did you bring the bread i give me the keys i'll do it myself

and get rid of that cat you look ridiculous like you're wearing one of your mother's precious first

don't cough i think it's beastly the way he treats you

no i don't mind him he gets like that when he hasn't had a cigarette

i like it when you smile really sort of makes your eyes sparkle

they're pretty nice no i'm not pretty

i'm not

you'll just have to believe me then

okay

oh

ah i was wondering where that had got to thank you so it's your wallet then is it i've just told you

you were in the warehouse last night that's right why i don't have to explain myself to you

didn't assert mr frank work here in the office at one time a jew

what's that got to do with anything what happened to him he

disappeared

disappeared that's right now if you'd excuse me

if it's a reward you're looking for i'm sorry to disappoint you oh i got my reward all right

somebody living in that building behind us i know it my wife cleans the offices if there were

people hiding she'd know it she thought she saw something once but he turned out to be a salesman

everybody's hiding somebody these days

what bothers me is that they may be jews it could be bad for all of us i think coogler's in on it

cooler cougar's a liar i know that already the whole bunch in the office is always sneaking

around climbing says he has to go to the store room the secretary is always checking

records and the other one that meep something about her i don't like she's shifty then one

what can you do firing for martin could be dangerous if he suspects something there is a

chance he could go to the gestator the reward for jews has gone up to 25 gilberts ahead

on the other hand if the fella's stealing he's got something to hide as well yes i think you're right

we have to be more cautious from now on all of us that was our last hundred gilders what are we to

do for money now one of those fancy dresses of yours should be worth something i'd like to see

you try stop being a ninny and don't speak to me that way whose fault is it we're in this pickle

certainly not mine would you please stop arguing you're like two magpies always bickering and i

don't see you offering to help please everyone accusations accomplish nothing we'll have to fend

for ourselves why you keep all the money from the business don't you think my curly deserves a share

of that money hmm where would you all be without these precious nose i tell you still making jam

see i told you we should have taken in the goslaws oh edith please is that so yes it is

oh mr pfeffer would you mind waiting a moment would you please convey this to mr

van pels tell him um tell him my way to response oh yes of course

if mrs frank wants her linen back she can have all of it

i've never really cared for it to be honest i've always found it rather shabby haven't you

and from now on they can use their own china see how they like that thank you mr pfeffer very well

be sure to put that in the letter all right it'll teach them to put on airs

mr peffer would you please ask mr van pels to pass the salt

at least it was one of theirs this time

peter get up here it's all right you shouldn't get into trouble on my

account

what do you think you're doing sit down

look at yourselves you're supposed to know better how do you think it makes us feel

me peter and margo to see you behaving this way a fine example you're setting

she's right you know there's absolutely no place for pettiness

give me a plate

would you like soup or porridge porridge please

mr pepper would you be so kind let's pass this porridge

have some vegetables

here's a joke for you ann what has four legs and flies tell me a horse

what do you mean

germany is to be blacked out night raids have already caused

civilians

look how fast i'm growing daddy

mother says you should drink this such a bother having the flu

i'm afraid to cough or fear someone my

hair i like the bells i like to hear that there is life waiting for us

marco what you miss most about outside we don't know so many things

i long for everything i've decided something what after the war i'm going to live

i need to travel study languages go to paris or london

study history i love history it sounds romantic you think i'm too extravagant

no i've been thinking too i've been reading about palestine i'd like to see it

maybe be a nurse there it's going to be different for us we're going to be modern women

this is very kind of you me i wish there were more they're not enough ration coupons you don't need

wishes to remain anonymous thank you very much

no one has any sympathy have each other you see i have no one oh thank you in my life

did she give you anything

oh thank you and merry merry christmas happy new year thank you i have something for you

they're beautiful i've never had high heels before

no i hope they fit here they fit they feel they do wonderful oh let me see you walk here

what a beautiful young lady you've become do you really think so

i do it isn't easy for me to always look my best peter thinks i'm sweet though he told me so

he said he liked my smile you have a lovely smile

me when you met yan did you know no oh yes i think i did when

when he kissed me

yes peter oh no i keep wanting him too though

but i'm trying to be a lady about it he will how could he resist

red shoes

me what you doing

how much do you think something like this would fetch mr clyman has a furrier friend we can ask

him he just wants money for bloody cigarettes you think food is cheap curly you sold everything else

my best dresses and jewelry let me keep this at least enough putty anything you can do meep

you see what it's come to mrs frank i won't have any fine things left

how am i going to face people after

merry christmas merry christmas everybody merry christmas

must you go meep oh diana's waiting just a little longer please

you hear how they all talk after the war i say nothing what could i say to them

this is fun pelts everything a crisis

she's to criticize the things she says about the children the children and

margo water says we must be hopeful hopeful for what you mustn't think such things i know i know i

have to be strong but for how much longer if only this waiting would end at least i could be certain

meep we're not going to make it it will have a bad end i'm sure of it now

it doesn't matter for me with the children

the children me what's to become of the

children

how

help me

man i saw her who hannah

so awful

the way she looked at me i was so mean to her sometimes and now there's nothing i can do to help

you just a bad dream i hate them the germans they won't stop it so they've killed all the

jews with me i wish all the germans were dead and listen to me you must never think like that there

are good and bad people everywhere it makes no difference where they come from what about meep

mr cooper they're austrian just like hitler you want them to die as well

and don't forget we are german no we're dutch aren't we margo of course we are

i don't want to be german not ever here take your valerian it will make you feel better no

kim let me sleep here tonight

that's please goal

oh i'm desperate for smoke maybe coogler forgot some cigarettes in the office

i join you

uh

police are coming

i need the toilet i'll have to wait i just have to hold it marco for queen and country freedom

truth and right this is no time for insulins what about the radio they're going to find the radios

what difference does the radio make if they find us

i still feel heartbeating i thought we were lost you can see the gestapo taking us away

we're safe now

mr kleinman will be here soon i prayed to you

i wouldn't have blamed god if he didn't listen

i never used to give him a thought he was watching us i know it

he's always watching the jews

he was well

look i'm glad we're here together me too

listen peter

and they beautiful they're telling us things are going to be all right

i must complain in the strongest possible terms about the new security measures i'm sorry mr

pfeffer but downstairs is off limits until further notices except for those with responsibilities

you can't keep us prisoners in this attic mr frank we are prisoners mr father none

of us can afford another encounter like the last one no see here it's been decided by me

if the allies knew about mr prefer maybe they'd be here already

here we go

and if we're not very careful it's going to be a waiting on our hands

do you know where this is

if you have mice you need a trap

i know where they're hiding

this is armed forces radio today is the day today is d-day at 0-6-30 hours allied

forces under the command of general dwight d eisenhower landed on beaches throughout normandy

fighting is heavy but victory is assured to the people of western europe we say be strong

have faith stand firm 1944 will be the year of your liberation

bye girls we made it

just think of it we'll be back in school in october it's cool

hello i know this is going to be a celebration later right well i just wanted the first to say it

so happy 15th birthday oh thank you peter they're lovely maybe pop them for me

it cost me everything i had

and it's worth it so you smile what are you doing i can't believe i was so innocent when

i wrote some of this but i'm trying to make it better i'm dreaming of turning it into a novel

does it have a title here maybe the some bosmans of an ugly duckling oh the secret annex

you must say something why am i troubled but mine won't say anything he's got his reasons

what about the neighbors maybe they've heard something

pipes people talking god knows what i'm staying out of it they catch you

they'll find out you've been hiding from them why didn't you report when you were supposed to have

you thought about what will happen of course i've thought about it how long will you wait

until the gestapo comes to take you away what shall i do then who cares about a bunch of jews

they've got it coming to them anyway it's our lives i'm talking about lemont is fighting a calm

according to the reports don't belong now

do you think it's such a good idea you're spending so much time in the attic don't

you think you should do your homework in your room daddy you of all people know what mr pfeff is like

your father's trying to say that you're spending a little bit too much time with peter

i don't understand we're doing something wrong no no um it's just uh

you encourage him a little too much i think you should set limits don't you like him i think he

has potential yes this is the wrong environment for an infatuation and i'm i must say i'm not

certain i approve of all the necking i hate that word just don't take things too seriously that's

all we're asking i think i'm old enough now to make my own decisions besides he likes my smile

all that went well

ever since i was little i used to think my parents had the perfect marriage

i can't remember ever once hearing them argue

daddy even used to serve mummy breakfast in bed can you imagine my father doing that for my mother

probably hit him with a tray and vice versa mommy loves daddy i'm sure of that but sometimes i

think daddy married her because he thought she would be a good wife do you see the difference

i asked daddy about it once you know what he said your mother's very beautiful beautiful

i want so much more than that

i say let the nazis kill each other less work for the british and the russians

this time next month we'll be having our shabbat million freedom this is not a meal this is garbage

your people could be doing more for us mr feather

how could you say something like that have you thought about what would happen

if meeper caught one of your little packages from charlotte now you even begrudged me my charlotte

and you think you're the only lonely person in the world yes those in glass houses what's that

supposed to mean this modern household of yours it's the same argument over and over again some

people never learn you could afford to take some lessons too you're selfish you're hysterical and

you're [ __ ] i am not pushing as if you were some ideal mother you can't even control your own son

it's a wonder woman wait a minute just please be quiet sit down you stop telling me what to do

somebody's been a bad influence

i'm proud of you

i just suppose i just finally had enough it's a beautiful story do you really think so everyone

would be amazed to know that you had this in you people would just think i was being silly or worse

margaret do you remember the stories daddy used to tell us about the two pawlers of course good paula

everyone expects me to be a bad poor so i try not to disappoint them good pool is just for me

i keep her here i don't let her out in public well why not show them who you really are

good paula's not strong enough she hides and lets bad paula do the talking

except in my diary well but every one of you wrote this i think it's very fine

you know you are old enough to know by now that there's no harm in being yourself i try margo

really i do it's just other people keep getting in the way

well good night good night

just a second

hello i i have information information information about what about about some jews at 263

somewhere in the back building

hey what's the problem

kenya nairobi hungary free to pass

that's the boss

upstairs

you've been denounced

all right you let's go

all heroes those who foretell the future

and now show us what's behind that bookcase

stop them

enzo

move

that's it money valuables you'll find a strong box in the closet go get it

so

stop packing we've got five minutes

listen to me i want you to go to my house tell my wife what's happening don't come back

for now there's no guard

still tom you can go too no i stay

it's all right mr theft

you'll see here again soon

what's in this trunk nothing of any value not to you

memories this is a soldier's trunk where did you get it it's mine

yes i was a reserve officer in the first world war

but but why didn't you register as a veteran he would have been sent to teresa instead

he would have been treated decently

take your time attendance thank you sergeant

guys house

finish your packing you in here

me see that you stay out of it tell us what you can't

i'm ready pen

so you have nothing to say

neither one of you no nothing

well now it's your turn you're from vienna so am i i heard it right away papers you get out

geez

like the name of the business yes strange that your husband isn't here

have you no shame what am i going to do with you

as far as i'm concerned you can stay here in grouds it a personal favor but if you leave

we'll seize your husband you keep your hands off my husband he has nothing to do with

this it's my affair don't be stupid you're both in this up to your necks

i'll be back to check on you god help you if you're not here

get the keys lock the plates up

no you're not supposed to take anything

help me pick this up help me

oh quickly before he comes back

we have taken them together headquarters i should think after that it's so awful enough

aren't you going to read it no this belongs to ann when she comes back i'll give it to her

uh

10.

the entire

i'm in here

welcome to the jerusalem of holland registrations at the far end of tourist family just follow the

crowd we're all jews here germans let us run the place the test parents watch out you don't end up

the place is a little dirty but we've got everything you need to make yourself comfortable

we've got lots of work to keep you busy we're all ready

things don't look so bad make ourselves useful stick it out

name frank otto frank this is my wife edith my daughter's anne and margaret s barracks if i may

i'd like to request that my daughters be assigned to kitchen duties i can do anything and very handy

no privilege is for criminals of esmeraks may ask what crime were accused failure to report

when ordered next not a crime scene next it's not a crime sir next it doesn't make us criminal sir

in his arms and they dance and dance

before the world he went to every movie he could i can't wait to see all the pictures i missed thanks

to all the magazines she already knows all the blocks by heart they can't touch us i heard one of

the other women talking she said the allies have taken paris and are marching through belgium now

is that the latest from the gpa what's the jpa the jewish press agency every day a different rumor

the allies are here there everywhere they say there hasn't been a transport in two months

maybe there's help there's always hope yeah as long as we work hard that's my father's motto

where can he and then mrs quackenbush began to quack she quacked and she quacked and

she quacked stop that infernal quacking cried this one then he put his wings over his ears

but mrs quackenbush did not stop not until the big black swan flew away

she waited to see if the swan would come back but he never did so she gathered her

ducklings around her and together they swam off happily ever after do you know what they sign

that's right quack quack they love your story do you think you could arrange for

me to visit more often i'll try they don't have parents to tell them stories anymore

when we're liberated i'm going to get all the paper i can find and start my stories over again

did i tell you i was working on a novel huh i think so

well i was i didn't know how to finish it but now i do i can't wait to get

started again it's going to be a romance but not sentimental mind you i've grown too old for that

do you remember how you told me once you were ashamed of being

and jewish people

chosen for this we've suffered before and it's only made us stronger

one day people will look up to us yeah any of us left

i used to take so much for granted like the sky

do you see those stars he had a club called the little dipper once jackie hannah sanner and me

one star for each of us how much one were you

well i should have known

tomorrow at transport we leave this camp

the audis are preparing lists inmates selected for

this transport will be allowed to take with them all belongings surrendered upon arrival

i look forward to personally seeing you off wishing you bon voyage back to your bags

now

there must be something you can do

gotta keep us off their list the string in this camp i haven't tried to pull the only

language they understand is barter we've got nothing to trade i'm not sure would do any

good even if we have the jew traitors here are worse than the nazis saving their own skins in

that place you'd do something different and like job waiting in the ashes while they played god

no it was different for job job didn't have to squat like an animal in front of strangers

job was not driven from his homeland and job could argue back

attention

get in line

step forward when your name is called

brandesiani

isaac brandes lienter

frank otto frank margo

frank colander eat it van pelt herman

fritz

again it doesn't make any sense anyone with brains can see the germans are losing the war

but can we matter to them now nothing makes sense anymore mr pfeffer not to me

as long as my family stay together

yes

so

soon in germany i think i'm sure

everywhere just looks bummed to pieces something anyway maybe they bombed the tracks

that's possible isn't it mr frank yes

i'm going to take off the red patches wherever we're going we are not going as common criminals

um

uh

uh

foreign

is

i guess i lost

foreign

ah

oh

oh

thanks

uh

oh

oh

foreign

did you say goodbye to your father your brother you won't see them

again you know they're already in the gas chambers don't listen to her shut up you

hmm

hmm

oh

first

is

ah

light up

women selected for this transport will be sent to a work camp to work on

munitions transport transport transport

h 16. scabies you're staying here

send her to crossy block i'm staying with my daughter i have scabies too

uh

moving on

i talked to him last night the doctor said they could leave that horrible place

when today she said

and the sun is shining it's dangerous for them there

i should have gone with him

oh

here

z

cousins

foreign

ah

has been a selection for children

hello

yes

oh

oh

welcome

ah

um

and yeah

uh

uh

listen like up but

i've forgotten about birds you never saw them in broken out nothing lived there

birds of prey

scavengers

that's all that's left

that's the steinlag the star camp they're saving those jews to exchange them for german prisoners

they have food over there but be careful if they get you they'll shoot you i'll tell you this is

oh to find you here after all these weeks months your mother was beside

herself with grief which you heard about the transport he didn't come with you

selected every day there were trains just because of the russians is what i heard

only 60 miles away they emptying all the polish camps we don't believe in rumors anymore

though can't you make us stop

get used to it you get used to

everything

all right

there's somebody on the other side of the fence and i think it's your friend hannah

the other side

hannah i know

you what are you doing here you're supposed to be in switzerland

it was only a story so they wouldn't come looking for us we were hiding in daddy's office

i couldn't tell anybody gabby is she here she had an infection

but she's all right now someone's taking care of her

father i'm worried about he's so sick they took me to the hospital i pray for him every night

i used to pray for you too man i prayed that your family was safe

your father your mother my mother's dad they sent him to the cash statements

but your mother selected

the chimney was smoking this is too horrible i can't believe they've taken everything hannah

everything it's so cold the dice are crawling over my clothes there's no food

everything i find i give to marco because she's so weak

we got a red cross package today it isn't much but it's something

wait be careful

what's happening

i'll try again if i can come back tomorrow please yes i promise tomorrow

tomorrow

i got it oh sucks thank you thank you so much meet me here not tomorrow but the next day wait for me

i'll wait i have so much i want to tell you me too i have to go the guards until then

um

no go away

and are you there can you hear me

and i'm sorry i couldn't meet you the way i said i would they told us we were going to be exchanged

finally after all this waiting you should have seen father he got dressed in his best suit

even in the hospital he died in that suit

and now they say we're not going to be exchanged after all

why are they so cruel you're the only person i ever have to talk to

you and gabby she's not old enough to understand yet i don't understand

where are you

and what's happened very close i threw them away i feel the lies crawling all over me itching

itching all the time i'm trying to organize something for you which barrick are you wearing

you have to come to come marco is very sick everyone's

my sister too come when i can now get back inside

take some breath

do you remember how how i was always taking care of you when you listen

it's my turn to take care of you now it doesn't matter anymore no you can't leave me here

tell me a story i just love your stories

i didn't like that do you remember how we talked about it about about what we were going to do

after the war what were you going to be

i can't remember yes you can you have to

be a nurse that's what you told me

that's right

a nurse a nurse in in the sky

that's where i'm going see the world

birds

listen marco

marco

no you'll wake up

thank you

so

breakup

mr frank meep

it's good to see you

elitist she's not coming back

let's go inside

after we were liberated by the russians i found someone who'd known edith in the women's camp

starvation she was hoarding bread under her blanket in the hospital for her children

and her husband she said if her body had only held out for two more weeks

i'm sorry mr frank the nazis dynamited the gas chambers you know to cover their tracks

that wasn't enough for them that's when the marches began i was in the hospital i begged peter

not to go to stay behind he was looking after me then i don't know what happened to him

autumn mr surfer mr van pers i saw with my own eyes being taken to the

gas chamber he was in the barracks when he should have been at work

hey he just gave up and you could never do that

never

and the girls do you have any news

only rumors so many other women were deported to germany i live in hope

yes

spoken with

i'm looking for information about my daughters i believe they were sent to burger king

i have filled out a form add their names to a list then we'll contact you their names

then

my name is danny brandes i was in bergen-belsen with and margot frank do you have any information

follow me

who is it mrs brandes yes otter frank i believe you saw my daughters at birgendalsen

me i'm going down i'm not coming back

yes

you