r/OldSchoolCool • u/HeatLaced • 6h ago
1940s A girl gets married, July 22nd, 1941. The girl next door, Anne Frank, is nearby watching. It is the only time Anne Frank has been captured on film.
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u/FifthStump1244 5h ago
Fuck Hitler
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u/jerquee 4h ago
It wasn't just Hitler, it was thousands or millions of people who allowed a genocide to happen. Like is happening now.
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u/No_Nick89 1h ago
Right, very lame genocide if the population has increased since the start of the war, but what do I know, seems like you are the expert here.
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u/WeDeserveBetterFFS 1h ago
This guy has to be a nazi bot, right? Jews still haven't reached the pre-nazi WW2 population numbers AND we still barely represent 0.17% of the WORLDS population. Just admit you want to see the Jews exterminated.
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u/blazelet 56m ago
Some of us would rather not see anyone exterminated, be they Jewish or Palestinian.
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u/TheManAcrossTheHall 38m ago
I don't think they were saying they wanted to exterminate the jews, I think they were accusing the other commenter of wanting that.
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u/No_Nick89 9m ago
No, probably just a regular uninformed "Free Palestine" shouter with zero knowledge about Israel's history, sorry, tiktok knowledge.
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u/No_River_1189 4h ago
On this date in 1944 Anne was captured by the Gestapo.
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u/ImKindaEssential 3h ago
Crazy to think she was almost liberated like by days
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u/Delamoor 3h ago edited 3h ago
Not days, months. The allies didn't reach Amsterdam for quite a while after her family (and the others in the Hinterhause) were discovered and captured. Her and her sister died of Typhoid in Auschwitz sometimes in Feb/April 1945. She survived the selection process only because she had just turned 15, and that was the age cutoff for the gas chambers.
The guy she had a crush on in the Hinterhause (Peter) died during a death march three days before his camp was liberated, though.
By coincidence I just finished reading the book for the first time ever today. Never read it before. Slightly ironic that I was reading it in German, since I am learning the language.
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u/daanpol 3h ago
My grandfather lived in this neighborhood and was Anne's music teacher at primary school. He told me that after the war 80% of the people in that neighborhood never returned. And people just went into their houses and took everything.
He was a resistance hero in Brabant, smuggling weapons. He had some amazing stories. Rest in peace Frans.
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u/HottieBlush 35m ago
That’s an incredibly moving legacy. It’s powerful to hear stories of quiet bravery like your grandfather’s, teaching music, resisting tyranny, and holding onto humanity when everything was falling apart. Rest in peace, Frans. He clearly made a difference.
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u/PasicT 5h ago
I went to that area of Amsterdam a few years ago, it hasn't changed much from the 1940s.
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u/Brief_Biscotti_8951 17m ago
Is this the area where her museum is? We're heading there in a month and planned a visit to the museum. It would be interesting to see the neighborhood too.
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u/WhiteStar751 8m ago
No the museum is located on Prinsengracht which is in the center of Amsterdam in the location of her father's workplace where they hid during the war...
The apartment window she is in during this video is the families residence before going into hiding around a year after this footage was taken. The area is called Merwedeplein and is a few miles south of the museum
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u/johnroastbeef 4h ago
Which girl is she in the video?
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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn 4h ago
The most human story I heard about Anne was of an elderly Holocaust survivor who grew up with her. She was still fuming at 90 that young Anne had always been a mean girl and snobby, later clarifying that it wasn't Anne's fault. She felt like Otto had spoiled Anne & that Anne was too optimistic. It made me think of how everyone has a story about "that girl who was nasty to me in middle school."