Frank, Isaak. Yes.
Frank, Margot. Yes.
Frank, Otto. Yes.
Frank-Holländer, Edith. Yes.
When I was in the camps and things were very difficult...
I sometimes thought about the good times in the past.
No... My friends.
Home.
Dear Moortje.
It made me feel less afraid for a while.
AFTER THE ARREST
*Happy birthday to you
* Happy birthday to you
* Happy birthday, dear Anne.
* Happy birthday to you.
Hooray, hooray, hooray!
LAUGHTER
TEARS
The night we heard we were on the list of people to be deported...
we didn’t sleep a wink. We didn’t know where we were going.
We did know we were going east.
We’d heard that people in the east were being murdered.
FRIGHTENED, SOBBING
But the reality was much, much worse.
We had to hand over our overalls and clogs.
And we were given back our mouldy clothes that had been in bags.
Take these things with you.
Take them with you.
Everything was organized very precisely.
Then we had to join long queues to go to the trains..
Take all your things with you.
Oh...
Are you OK? Young lady, keep walking.
Anne... Sorry.
CHAOTIC BACKGROUND NOISE
Anne, stand here.
The children too.
Where should we... Ow, my foot!
THE TRAIN STARTS TO MOVE
The journey went on forever.
We had hardly any water, and no food.
And no decent toilets.
The toilet barrel kept overflowing.
The stench was unbearable.
But at least we were altogether.
Yes, we were terrified. And we were in a bad way.
But there were eight of us. And we could console each other and hold each other.
We were in the wagon for three days and three nights.
SOUND OF THE TRAIN RUNNING ALONG THE TRACK
And then...
we arrived in hell.
SOUNDS OF FRIGHTENED PEOPLE
SHOUTING, SCREAMING DOGS BARKING
Outside we saw a row of people...
who were waiting for us.
They were prisoners
in striped clothes.
They were going to chase us out of the train.
The Germans made them do it.
They hit us to get us out.
SHOUTING
Anne, come here!
PANIC, SHOUTING AND SCREAMING
We were split up.
The women had to go to the left.
And the men...
to the right.
Anne!
I never saw them again.
Can I put this one in my mouth or do you want it?
Go on then. For me? Yes, OK.
So delicious.
But luckily I also had those memories.
But dad had gone.
And Peter.
Mr Van Pels.
And Pfeffer too.
SOFTLY: OK.
Me, mom, Auguste and Margot...
were in a queue together with hundreds of other women.
Some women even fell over...
they were so tired, hungry and thirsty.
Frank-Holländer, Edith.
Frank, Margot.
Frank, Anne.
And then...
we were taken to a big place...
where the number shown on our note
was tattooed onto our arm....
Up to then we’d been treated like animals.
But now we were actually numbered animals.
We had to get undressed.
And our heads were shaved.
And then ...
we had to go into the showers.
The water was icy.
They threw clothes at us at random.
It made no difference...
whether they fit or were warm enough.
You had to make do.
A warm dress could be the difference between life and death.
This is where we had to sleep.
Aufstehen!
Du hier.
Every day we had to stand outside in the cold for hours.
Many of the women became ill
and just collapsed in despair.
COUGHING
SOUND OF A WHISTLE
The work we had to do was completely pointless.
It was just to torment us and keep us busy.
We had to walk to a railway track...
pick up four stones...
walk on for a few kilometres with the stones and then put them down...
next to a house.
Our hands were completely wrecked.
But not as wrecked as our spirits.
ANGUISHED SCREAM
I remember the day that a girl tried to escape.
She just ran away.
Two guards grabbed her and brought her back.
And hung her in the middle of the camp
So that everyone could see what would happen...
if we tried to do that ourselves.
But I never thought of doing that.
I did everything I could possibly do...
to stay with mom and Margot.
We held onto each other for dear life.
Are you OK, Anne?
At least we still had each other.
I’m so tired, mom.
We didn’t sleep.
And the food was even worse than in Westerbork.
We had to stand outside naked for hours and hours.
And we saw people falling down dead right in front of us.
And thousands...
thousands of people were...
murdered in the gas chambers.
And as soon as they were dead...
the next ones were already arriving.
This went on all day.
It was a factory.
A murder factory.
And those children ...
I’ll never forget those children.
Little children...
didn’t have any chance at all.
They were taken to the gas chambers straightaway.
Together with their mothers.
And pregnant women.
Old people.
And sick people.
They were worthless to the Nazis.
At night we tried to forget...
the horrors of the day.
But it didn’t work.
On top of it all Margot and I got scabies.
Little animals, they bury themselves under your skin.
And are very contagious.
So we were separated from mom...
and had to go into quarantine.
In a separate scabies barracks.
We itched all over...
it was horrible.
WHISPERING: Frida.
Little Frida.
Come over here.
Mrs Frank has bread for you.
The four of you can share it.
Hurry up.
We have to go, Edith. Come on. Yes.
We’re waiting for you.
DISTANT BARKING Come.
Come on. This one.
We’re leaving here as quickly as possible.
Oh mom.
Oh dear, brave, mom.
I can’t recognize you.
She’s changed since the Annex.
At first she was always so obedient.
Like a good housewife.
But in the camps...
she became a lioness
who did everything she could...
to protect her children.
Anne, come here. You can sleep here.
Margot, you go there. Oh, Auguste is joining us.
Schnell.
Schnauze halten.
Luckily...
we were able...
to see mom and Auguste...
for a few more days...
after Margot and I came out of the scabies barracks.
The last days.
Because then...
at the end of October...
the people who were still strong enough...
had to be transported...
away from Auschwitz.
To go somewhere else.
Me...
Margot and Auguste.
ANGUISHED: Mum. Anne!
Not mom.