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Saturday 3 October 2009

The only film of Anne Frank


"July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her wedding, the bride lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39. The Frank family lived at number 37, also on the second floor. The Anne Frank House can offer you this film footage thanks to the cooperation of the couple."
Seeing that face looking out of the second floor window/balcony is a really odd experience for me. I first went to Amsterdam back in the 1970s and I found the Anne Frank museum very moving. I have been back to the museum quite a few times since, although not for some years now, but the last time it got too much for me.

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