Most students have read The Diary of Anne Frank; it's a bestseller and important part of history. Whether it's viewed as a reminder of the Holocaust or as the remarkable writings of a budding literary talent, the story behind Anne Frank's diary is full of controversy, some of which is still unfolding. In 2022, for example, researchers announced they might have discovered who betrayed Anne Frank's family to authorities: Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh.
In her diaries, Anne includes facts about her birth in Germany in 1929, details about her family's move to Amsterdam as Hitler came to power, and reflections on hiding with seven other people in a secret annex.
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I don’t know why I’ve never thought about this until recently but this diary was effectively, Anne’s sanity. She was in a stifling yet extremely precarious position. It wasn’t just finding certain people insufferable, it was the fear of being caught, the protocols that were completely against her own nature. She really could have done something great and this diary is proof of the kind of writer she could have been.
It's a disgrace that this Diary has to be censored. It changes the whole story.
I need to go back and read the Diary again. I read it when I was young. I am a girl so it did not surprise me that she wrote about puberty and sex; many girls do, I know I did.
And her father actually never censored that part, only the "I hate my mother" stuff.
@@marianparoo1544 yes he did.
The fact she believed in the good of people while experiencing what she did speaks volumes
Shows how stupid people can be
Like your parents? @@TheKawasaki250
@@TheKawasaki250 like you parents.
@@TheKawasaki250SHAME ON YOU 🤬
"It was my imagination, and in my mind, I believed it. Even now, I believe it"
The house and attic are one of the most memorable museums you'll ever visit.
The Dutch disagree.
@@lawsondurbin26 What's their problem with it? I heard a few speak fondly about it.
@@lawsondurbin26Says who??? I'm Dutch, and everybody I knew are very proud off the book! So explain yourself, or shut your mouth!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬✡️🌹🙏🏻
I can't believe this book is being banned in some states. Disgraceful
Ball point pin…. Propaganda
It’s been banned a few times, though not because of how Anne wrote about other girls (like it is this time). I can’t remember the exact reasons why but it’s gone off and on the banned book list for years. You’d be surprised what books are on that list
@@triciacarey2288 yeah more than half of the ones I read in high school are on there
Probably banned because the source material is heavily questionable. A lot of speculation of bias from the editors and possible ghost writers that might have altered or got rid of what was in the real diary.
@@slimshadow49 Nope. The first attempt to get Anne Frank's book banned came in 1982. Parents in Wise County, Virginia, objected to the descriptions of Frank's anatomy, the romantic feelings she expressed for a female friend, and her burgeoning sexual feelings. In 1983, in Alabama, there was a push to ban the book because people thought it was too depressing for younger readers. Her diary gets banned over and over again bc she expresses attraction to women, discusses her changing body, and the tragedy of her life can lead people to question their faith. It also is seen as too graphic due to the nature of the Holocaust and what she was living through.
In Auschwitz, according to testimonies, Anne and her mother became very close. Edith reportedly lost her will to live after Anne and Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen
But somehow at the same time there was 0 survivors at Auschwitz.
Lot of survivors of those "death" camps. Pretty weird.
@@deep_fried_midgetwhy is it weird? Auschwitz had 1.5 million prisoners over the 3 years it ran.
@@deep_fried_midgetGet all the way fucked.
@@deep_fried_midget How so?
I am leaving this comment here so that after some hours, days, weeks, months or years when someone likes or comment on it, I will be reminded to watch this video again
Thanks for sharing. I guess.
Good for you.
Hello I get it this time!!
Hope I reminded you
I got worms 🪱🪱
I feel sorry for annes mother She was obviously depressed but Being a fifteen year old Anna didn't realise this that edith was depressed
I don't she did either. They were living during a war so I could see Edith being depressed around that time plus who knows how Otto really felt.
Wow. It is amazing that this diary has gone through so many Interpretations of what other people want Anne to say but hers Is still an Important voice that needs to be heard for all the good It can do. That you for the kind and respectful tone reading this. Good job!
The fact that some people didn’t believe Anne wrote them because apparently they were too mature for a teenager 🙄
Rest in power and peace 🙏 Anne Frank 12 June 1929 ~ Feb/Mar 1945 @ 15 years young⚘
Well today class we have a substitute teacher😂👍
I love sub day. NO HOMEWORK!!
Brutal…but otherwise accurate
🤣🤣🤣
Learning is learning, my guy.
Here before there are comments that focus solely on the narrator and not on the subject.
None of us are here for the topic. I’m here for the narrator
@@RageQtGaming Kind of creepy.
Why would we focus on him
@@GreatLakesFeatherCo Because it's a different narrator than before in the past videos
Like you’re doing rn?
I learned about Anne Frank and her diary on a field trip in the 6th grade to see Anne Frank remembered the documentary I have since read the book probably over 10 times I should read it again
May their memory be blessed. Never again.
I've know the story since the 1980s. What I found really interesting is that her father didn't censor the lesbian stuff, only the "I hate my mother stuff". There are a few passages that to this day haven't been published, because when the full edition was to be published, it was shown to all the people she mentioned, and a couple of them didn't agree because of the typical teenage things she had written about them in the diary.
I remember reading the book in way back in middle school.
God, it's such sad history. Poor girl.
Almost unbelievable.
Don't worry, it's only make-believe
Definitely
Great video. Though its weird how scared KZhead gets whenever anyone discusses these topics. They even had to put a content warning, as if we don't know about that horrific event.
NAZI BAD MKAY BOYIM?!
Sadly there are plenty of people who believe it wasn't nearly as bad as it was, or didn't happen at all 🤯😠
No you arent allowed to think critically about the topic. It's against the law in most places.
Thanks for this! ✍
very cool upload. thanks
Thanks!
The backstory is just as fascinating as the book itself. So many dimensions to it, but that’s what humanities does
Cool stories. I really like your channel. I also started making stories, not as professional as yours, but I think for a beginner very good.
Honestly, it's the disrespect for me. She had a copy she wanted published. The original she didn't want published. The girl glued brown bags onto pages she clearly didn't want anyone ever seeing. After her death, the only surviving member of her family edited the book to show his daughter in what he felt was her best light. None of those wishes were respected. They published what she didn't want published and are still fighting on if it's appropriate or not. They just had to see what she tried to hide, waiting until technology allowed them to violate the wishes of the dead. The purpose of the book was to be a sneak peek into hiding during ww2 from people that wanted them dead and ended up succeeding. You don't need to know about her puberty or natural sexual curiosity to get the viewpoint of those horrendous things in history. It's just disrespectful.
She had her own edited version, which she prepared for publication after the war. I think it's the B version, but I would have to check my copy with all three texts.
@@marianparoo1544 The current published version people knew is a mix between the A Diary and the B Diary...
I mean, if you're dead you're dead there's no such thing as disrespecting the dead.
@theotherohlourdespadua1131 that's why it's disrespectful. Some things were not ever meant to be seen. Other things she felt were okay. At the end of the day, we are talking about a minor. Had she lived and not perished, she would have certainly edited it again before publication. The fact still remains that we didn't need to know all the nitty gritty of her experiencing puberty to understand the historical context or significance that the diary represents. This is something that is still very controversial today. In my personal opinion the way her diaries have been handled historically is disrespectful to the little girl who hid in an attic from a government that wanted her dead based solely on her ethno religion. A little girl who wrote about her most inner thoughts and one day wanted to be a writer, who was taken too soon due to hatred.
@Shlumbus69 you can disrespect the memory of a person once they are gone. Which is disrespecting the dead. Typically only done by cowards since they know the person is not here to defend themselves or their memory.
It's still not clear who betrayed them. 😢
A (more plausible) theory was that... They were never betrayed at all. The Dutch police were smart enough to notice discrepancies in the use of ration coupons like how there is one place that buys more supplies than what the records said...
Doesn't matter now because they are long dead. What are we going to do if we find out, try them in absentia? Try their current relatives? Nothing can be gained at this point.
@@katemaloney4296 We certainly can't change anything that happened, but historical accuracy must be upheld at all times, IMO.
I just finished reading one of the many books written about her, hoping to find who the traitor was and as always, nothing.
Maybe that's because the story was all a lie in the first place
There is another theory floating around that suggests that the Franks and the other folks were not betrayed by someone, rather the Dutch police got smart and noticed something unusual about the place. If I recall correctly, what tipped off the police was discrepancies in use of ration coupons like how one household bough more rations than what the records said they ought to buy...
I know the script is the same regardless of who narrates the video, but I’m far less inclined to continue watching the video when I hear it isn’t Tom.
This has been my favorite book since being a child.
Nice video.
The sad truth is that had she survived, her diary would probably not have been as famous.
But the good truth is that she would've been alive and not die a young age...
Why wouldn't a book about a person who actually experienced the Holocaust not be as famous if they were still alive?
@@blackpoptart4781 Because there are hundreds if not thousands of memoirs of holocaust survivors. Hers would just be another one.
If she had survived the diary would have likely never been made public. It was full of her private thoughts, the words on the pages were for her eyes only. I can't see her agreeing to publish it. She was not alive to protect it, so it got published without her consent.
According to many eyewitnesses and people that knew Anne and studied the diary believe this person would have done marvelous things in her future. She had talent and insights beyond her years.
I wanna hear about the Michael Swaim Diaries😉
Stop the madness, stop the war ☮️ Rest in peace Anne ☮️
“This child was trying to write a book while hiding from the nazis… with a ballpoint pens…”
7:50 the argument that it swaps between ink and pen and is therefore fake is such a strawman argument
Going to be interesting to see how long the ballpoint pen comments stay.
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@@James-co2nb the book was written in ballpoint pen something that wasn't available until 1951... Anne Frank died in the 40s
Another interesting factoid. Anne Frank's step sister has called out the "liberation" footage as not being real as there is no snow on the ground.
@@MalachiHealey What? Anne Frank only has one sister (Margot) and both of them perish before the war's end. How could she be commenting on that?
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 It was her step sister Eva Schloss
What about the part that was written in ballpoint pen?
The notes written by a graphologist.
since i've read comments about the new narrator, i can't unhear it
I was surprised to learn there were three versions of her diary. I didn't know her father was the one schlepping it around to get printed. It's always all about the money.
Because it's all BS.
@@deep_fried_midgetcheck your antisemitism at the door please.
The book i read in school was titled "The Diary of Anne Frank" ...the "young girl" part is new to me. Mendela effect, or public school censorship?
The Mendella Effect is just people remembering things wrong, spelling things wrong, or pronouncing things wrong. The proper name is "The Diary of A Young Girl' but its' 'commonly referred to as 'The Diary of Anne Frank' Most likely came about so people knew exactly who the young girl was.
The original title for this book is "Het Achterhuis" (The Backhouse, poetically translated as "The Secret Annex")...
The play is called "The Diary of Anne Frank" and the (American version) book is called "The Diary of a Young Girl"
@@spidermiss2426 Ah, tx!
I now understand a bit more about her story
The book only gets air once every 10 years? Wow.
How times have changed since 2010.. 🤦🏻♀️
8:59 i thought Eleonore Roosevelt had a have in getting it published in the USA? I do know for sure that she wrote the preface of one edition…
Great book! -- Helen Keller.
Ball Point Pen.
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” - Anne Frank
A+ video! Awesome topic and history, so complicated!
Sob really wanted to listen to this one
Wow.
Wow Anna Frank ❤❤❤
It’s a little more complicated than just weird, so many questions yet we’re haters if we broach such questions about #Ourhistory
*Anne Frank:* _Still the World's Hide 'n Seek Champion!_
Awww man, it’s the JV narrator today.
Leo frank's grandma 😂
Hello fellow noticers.
I've got a request for a topic. How about the REAL history of the creation of Bill Finger's Batman.
Sounds like it’s all about the money, not getting her story out there.
She and her family were betrayed by a neighbor
Edith was never Otto's first choice, and apparently young Anne took notice that her mother could never fill his father's heart? Rewinded and listened like 3 times, and then looked at the subs, did nobody catch this error? (5:57-6:02)
Having ANOTHER Weird History drink! Drinking Nettle Leaf Tea*†...while watching this Weird History video! Great tea for insightful journal writing! * Inspired from the Weird History videos about the Royal Family. † The brand of the tea is Traditional Medicinals.
She's the most famous of her dairy, but there were other kids (girls) that wrote a dairy during WW2. I have hers and another one they made the book look so much like her real dairy, it was gift to her in a dark brown leather cover it shows how her dairy look for the cover design worn out.
Have you read the book Hana's suitcase? I got it in elementary school when the author came to our school and talked about it and signed it etc. It's a fascinating story!
@@lrosenberg101 yes I heard of her she was the Jewish Shirley Temple. It's looks like her dairy on the cover jacket that looks worn out in leather. Thanks for asking.
So they start a legal war over it. We never learn.
Try to grasp what "Never again" really means. It only applies to the Jews. No one else.
Any comment on Anne's ballpoint pen diary entries?
I just got flagged 2 days ago for "hate speech" 😂 lol they'd surely shut me down again for pointing out that inconvenient fact
She used a fountain pen, not a ballpoint pen.
She was the inventor after all.
Ballpoint notes were added by a graphologist in an examination of the diary after the Second World War.
The paper, ink and glue in the diary and some of the accompanying loose sheets also all existed in the early 1940s. Anne mostly wrote her diary using grey-blue ink for fountain pens, with some parts written in pencil.
It's sad 15 American publishers turned it down.
I have a very strange question. Is Michael Swain narrating?
We’re living it threw it now
Is that SWAIM??
Anyone else think Anne would have cringed at the thought of someone reading her "real" diary?
Totally thought I recognize this voice. It’s Michal swaim from cracked.
are you sure?
@@angelae4412 yeah! He posted about it on his twitter when I looked it up
I would really like to know what it was like to go through puberty during that time. Parents just don’t understand.
What they never experienced puberty themselves, & were also once young ? 🤔
Didnt the father embellish like a good portion of it
This Michael Swaim narrating, right? Formerly of Cracked and Small Beans?
1:46 That is a beautiful diary, so iconic!
I know they buried her body with others, her sister and mother and five hundred families…..
And will she remember me fifty years later I wished I could save her
in some sort of Time Machine......
So its not a real autobiography?
Ever listened to his translated speeches? Nothing told to us about the time period was real.
YES IT IS
What is a real autobiography to begin with? Unless it is a self published pdf on some server a lector at least had a look at it...
Ball point pin….
Man that blind and deaf girl really could tell a good story
The Diary Of Anne Frank was a play and a movie. Anne Frank The Diary Of A Young Girl is the published book of her diary. I mean it is even written on the copy you displayed.
Ball point pens
And typhus.
She used a fountain pen, not a ballpoint pen.
Ballpoint notes were added by a graphologist in an examination of the diary after the Second World War. The paper, ink and glue in the diary and some of the accompanying loose sheets also all existed in the early 1940s. Anne mostly wrote her diary using grey-blue ink for fountain pens, with some parts written in pencil.
"It was real in my mind"
I have always believed one of the helpers turned them in.
Ignorant comment
She used a fountain pen, not a ballpoint pen.
This channel isnt the same with the distinct voice of the other narrator
I wanna know what happened to the OG narrator
He's still around lol he didn't go anywhere
This girl is better than me
I like The other guys voice
I'm half way through the video and still no "new" news....sad to use this as clickbate...
Can you do a video about the count of Monte Cristo book please?
I'm surprised by the amount of copy right attached to it, sounds more like an account of history that profiteers perfer to have omitted. Seriously thats the same as over charging a society for just wanting to know what truly happened, to avoid it from repeating again on a victim n observers stand point of view.
Such a great reminder of how horrible antisemitism is.
Oh give it a rest already. Hatred of any group is no worse than another.
@@DD-gc2nq I hate Philadelphia Eagle fans But I don’t want them eradicated from the face of the earth See the difference ?
Hey new narrator: I like you!
Swaim, you have been an amazing online presents for years, but these scripts sound so drab. I wanna hear your comedy. you are a hilarious writer.
I own multiple editions of this Diary and read it once a year.
Here’s a better question. Why is the holocaust museum in Washington D.C?
There are many holocaust museums all around the world. What’s your point?
There are many all over the world. They are all paid for by private donations and are built on private property. You might be human tr45h
There's one in Jerusalem---Yad Vashem.
You misunderstood so much about this topic and omitted some important aspects.
What happened to the other voice over person? 😢 loved that voice
Her voice didn't sound like an adolescents? She was 12 in a war time situation and couldn't speak louder during a whisper most of the day how the hell is she supposed to sound? Her childhood was basically gone.
I remember someone suggested writing a diary. One pervasive thought was, does it seem wise to write down intimate thoughts with an abusive narcissist as a father? I can see my father's glee in fu¢king me over using my most inner most thoughts, was my response to this emotionally disconnected moron (a therapist I choose NOT to partake of their service).
History, yes. Weird? No. Bring back the Weird Guy! When will these guys realize that the "Weird" in "Weird History" comes from the great narrator?
This narrator is fine, take it easy champ.
@@babscabs1987 Fine? Maybe. Actually I think he's a bit weak. Weird? Not even close? Funny? He reads the lines in the script but does not invoke laughter. Did you laugh?
@emmgeevideo no, I didn't laugh during a video about a little girl who died in the holocaust...
@@babscabs1987 "Weird History" has covered a lot of topics in their signature "weird" way. Typically the real Weird Guy makes wisecracks that are funny. This story wasn't just about Ann Frank, it was mostly about her father's attempt to bring her diary to market and expunge parts of it that weren't flattering to him. It was about attempts to turn it into a musical. It was about copyright law. All of those are grist for a true "Weird History" and offer opportunities for wisecracks. I guarantee that if the real Weird History guy did the narration, we would have had a chuckle or two. I could tell where the "laugh lines" were in the script but the guy just couldn't pull it off. I think you're missing the point.
@emmgeevideo I get your point, I just don't mind the other narrator. My last comment was more of a joke tbh, you set me up real nice 😁