"#Anne Frank: Parallel Stories": New Documentary on Netflix

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- Trailer. "Anne Frank Documentary That Also Features Stories of Holocaust Survivors," by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, July 6, 2020. A documentary titled “#Anne Frank: Parallel Stories” began streaming on Netflix this month. The 2019 film — narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren — shares the story of the teenage diarist who died in the Holocaust paralleled with five female survivors of the Nazi genocide, who retell their experiences on camera.

The survivors featured in the documentary faced deportation and suffering during childhood and adolescence like Frank, but were fortunately able to stay alive.

As a young German Jewish girl, Frank kept a diary of her family’s two years in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. The family was eventually captured and deported to Nazi concentration camps where they all died except for Frank’s father, Otto. Mirren tells Frank’s story through the pages of her diary. The documentary includes commentary from historians and professors, and a guide through some of significant places in Frank’s life, as well as those of the survivors.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/07/06/netflix-airs-anne-frank-documentary-that-also-features-stories-of-holocaust-survivors/

~ Beautifully made film on Anne's life, & 5 other young women who survived the Holocaust, told by Helen Mirren. Watch it.

[Skittles]

1. I will be watching this

her book had a profound effect on me as a teenager

[appalachiablue]

2. Same, I read Anne's diary when young and always remember.

The Eichmann trial that was broadcast in 1961 on TV also made a lasting impression on me and the world.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/eichmann-trial

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3. I watched the film "Anne Frank Remembered" and it was excellent.

Afterwards I found this video with one of her real friends from the film who knew her at school then ran into her again a few weeks before she died at Bergen Belsen of typhus. It was so overcrowded that starvation was so bad there was cannibalism. The friend got rations since part of the camp was built for prisoners to be exchanged, then too many new prisoners were sent there when Germany was losing the war. She threw food over the fence to her but it was caught and taken so she had to get more. This was at the camp where she died Her sister was already sick and she believed her father was already dead. The friend said that may have been a reason she died...lost hope.

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5. Brief clip of Hanneli Goslar- Pick at Belsen talking

about her last times seeing Anne Frank who she knew since childhood. Yes, Hanneli threw a package of food to Anne over a fence but another hungry woman grabbed it.

Anne and Margot at the end were described as desperate, sick and thin, Anne seen walking around the woods wearing a blanket during that cold winter of Feb. 1945 while older sister Margot was deathly ill and bed-ridden with Typhus.

For sheltering and protecting Jews in Holland as long as they could, and striking in protest over their mistreatment and Nazi occupation, the Dutch people were punished harshly by the Nazis who withheld food and other aid esp. during the "Dutch Famine Winter, 1944-1945." https://dutchreview.com/culture/the-hunger-winter-the-dutch-famine-of-1944-45/

- Hannalei Goslar- Pick at Belsen camp talks of trying to help starving, sick Anne by tossing food to her over a guarded fence area.

Wiki..On 28 October, selections began for women [at Auschwitz] to be relocated to Bergen-Belsen. More than 8,000 women, including Anne and Margot Frank, and Auguste van Pels, were transported. Edith Frank was left behind and died of starvation. Tents were erected at Bergen-Belsen to accommodate the influx of prisoners, and as the population rose, the death toll due to disease increased rapidly. Frank was briefly reunited with two friends, Hanneli Goslar and Nanette Blitz, who were confined in another section of the camp. Goslar and Blitz survived the war, and discussed the brief conversations they had conducted with Frank through a fence.
Blitz described Anne as bald, emaciated, and shivering. Goslar noted Auguste van Pels was with Anne and Margot Frank, and was caring for Margot, who was severely ill. Neither of them saw Margot, as she was too weak to leave her bunk. Anne told Blitz and Goslar she believed her parents were dead, and for that reason she did not wish to live any longer. Goslar later estimated their meetings had taken place in late January or early February 1945.

In early 1945, a typhus epidemic spread through the camp, killing 17,000 prisoners. Other diseases, including typhoid fever, were rampant. Due to these chaotic conditions, it is not possible to determine the specific cause of Anne's death; however, there is evidence that she died from the epidemic. Gena Turgel, a survivor of Bergen Belsen, knew Anne Frank at the camp. In 2015, Turgel told the British newspaper, The Sun: “Her bed was around the corner from me. She was delirious, terrible, burning up,” adding that she had brought Frank water to wash. Turgel, who worked in the camp hospital, said that the typhus epidemic at the camp took a terrible toll on the inmates..

Witnesses later testified Margot fell from her bunk in her weakened state and was killed by the shock. Anne died a few days after Margot. The exact dates of Margot's and Anne's deaths were not recorded. It was long thought that their deaths occurred only a few weeks before British soldiers liberated the camp on 15 April 1945, but research in 2015 indicated that they may have died as early as February. Among other evidence, witnesses recalled that the Franks displayed typhus symptoms by 7 February, and Dutch health authorities reported that most untreated typhus victims died within 12 days of their first symptoms.After the war,

it was estimated that only 5,000 of the 107,000 Jews deported from the Netherlands between 1942 and 1944 survived. An estimated 30,000 Jews remained in the Netherlands, with many people aided by the Dutch underground. Approximately two-thirds of this group survived the war...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank

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4. the great Helen Mirren narrates... I will definitely watch this ASAP

It seems like it could be a very inspiring viewing for the times....