Official Anne Frank Channel Launched On Youtube
Youtube have launched a dedicated channel devoted to Jewish teenager Anne Frank and her story. She was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12th 1929 in Frankfurt and later died in a WWII Nazi concentration camp, the video sharing site and the Anne Frank House announced.
The website has collected existing and new images, including the only known video footage of Anne: a seconds-long shot of her leaning out of an upstairs window during the wedding of a neighbour in July 1941.
It also includes an interview with her father, Otto Frank, a preview of the new virtual museum of the Anne Frank House, and a series of interviews with people who knew the girl, said a media statement.
“With the Anne Frank Channel on YouTube, people around the world will be able to explore the life and significance of Anne Frank through unique images,” said a media statement.
“We hope this YouTube channel will help broaden the reach of the Anne Frank House, its educational power and its message of tolerance.”
The site contains a clip of South African anti-apartheid activist and Nobel peace prize laureate, former president Nelson Mandela, talking about the strength he had derived from Anne’s diary during his own imprisonment.
Anne, her father Otto, mother Edith, sister Margot and four other Jews hid from Nazi occupiers for nearly two years in an empty section of the Franks’ Amsterdam home.
The teenager chronicled the details of her life until the group was betrayed and arrested in August 1944. Anne died in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen camp in northern Germany.
The book that every school child has read, Anne Frank’s Diary was released in Dutch in the year 1947.
It has been a bestseller around the world and been translated into more than 70 languages selling millions of copies.
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