Anyone else watching this?

I'm not entirely sure which BBC channel it's being shown on. I found it on iPlayer.

I'm not sure how close the reality this is, but it's fascinating.

It's only on ep2 so far. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gn81c/The_Diary_of_Anne_Frank_Episode_2/)


edit: Episode 1 is still available here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gndt1/The_Diary_of_Anne_Frank_Episode_1/)

Unfortunately there aren't any subtitles, so good hearing is necessary.

Im watching this but also just started reading the book

I've watched this. it's on BBC1 every evening this week at 7pm. It been really interesting.

I don't want to spoil the surprise but I think I know how it ends.

I don't want to spoil the surprise but I think I know how it ends.

I'm quite looking forward to the ending when she goes on her killing spree before riding off into the sunset on her motorbike.

I'm quite looking forward to the ending when she goes on her killing spree before riding off into the sunset on her motorbike.

I heard they'd re-released the book with the censored bits taken out, but that's ridiculous ;)

really enjoying it.

read the book years ago

I don't want to spoil the surprise but I think I know how it ends.

I was going to retort with the point that this version is well acted. But thinking about it, I have no idea whether she herself would have made a good actress or not. :huh::hihi:

I wikipedia'd her after last night's episode, and although we all, of course know the ending, it's incredibly sad how people so recently were treated.

It would totally spoil the book for me to watch this. So no.

I'm half-way through the book right now actually, would be interesting to watch when I've read that.

The person playing Anne looks exactly like her (from the picture on the front of my copy anyway). She's a fantastic actress.

Yup, I am watching it. Not sure how true the story is to her diary as I have never read it, but I am really interested. It might sound daft, but not sure what the ending will be like. I mean, we all know what became of Anne and her family, but it will be interesting to see at what stage they end the story.

yes im watching it too, the feeling of being closed in which they all must have felt was very apparant to me.

The house in Amsterdam is very interesting. We went at a busy time,which was a shame as I could have just stayed there for ages, just imagining what life was like for the family. I have been recording the episodes, but haven't watched them yet.

Only saw the last one tonight, but it was quite something.

Watched the concluding part tonight and the final bit got me. I had a lump in my throat when it showed them being taken away at the end, along with the bit that went into detail about when and where they were executed. Very moving :(

I spent quite a bit of time at Anne Frank's house last year. It was a very intense experience where emotions ran high for both myself and many of it's visitors.

I swear that you could almost 'feel' the intensity of these emotions - almost as if they were your own. Amongst them were sadness, fear and love....backed up by loyalty and a strange sense of community - albeit a small and insular one. All of these feelings were present as you walked through the shared areas - which have remained pretty unchanged since the Frank family were taken.

There was a written piece of text on the wall downstairs - I took a photo but haven't uploaded it to a host site. The text reads as follows:

'One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows.

Perhaps it is better that way; for if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live'.

Primo Levi - Writer and Survivor of Auschwitz. 1986


Anne Frank's house then (http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/images/Anne%20Frank%20house%20-front.jpg) and Anne frank's house now (http://www.amsterdam.info/pictures/night/images/anne-frank-house.jpg)

Watched the concluding part tonight and the final bit got me. I had a lump in my throat when it showed them being taken away at the end, along with the bit that went into detail about when and where they were executed. Very moving :(
Same here :(

'One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows.

Perhaps it is better that way; for if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live'.

Primo Levi - Writer and Survivor of Auschwitz. 1986


Anne Frank's house then (http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/images/Anne%20Frank%20house%20-front.jpg) and Anne frank's house now (http://www.amsterdam.info/pictures/night/images/anne-frank-house.jpg)
Very wise words.

I think when people see the numbers of people who died in such terrible conditions as in the camps, it's difficult to think of people as individuals when all you can see is x,000 here, and xx,000 there. It becomes just a figure.

These two films are now available on iPlayer.

2 hour film. On Anne Frank. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gkv53/Anne_Frank_Remembered/)

and

A secret diary - the story of Rutka Laskier, a Polish girl.. whose diaries where found in 2005.(40 minutes) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gn734/The_Secret_Diary_of_the_Holocaust/)

Same here :(

and me :cry:

I very rarely shed tears for a tv program but I did for the last episode of this. I have also been to the house, and it is a strangely moving, intense place.

I very rarely shed tears for a tv program but I did for the last episode of this. I have also been to the house, and it is a strangely moving, intense place.

do you know if the series was shot in the house b and h?

Watched the concluding part tonight and the final bit got me. I had a lump in my throat when it showed them being taken away at the end, along with the bit that went into detail about when and where they were executed. Very moving :(

never mind a lump- i cried like a baby.

there was also a program on recently about a polish jewish teenager whose diary survived the war, but unfortunately, she didnt.

her name was Rutka Laskier (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gn734) and her father survived and moved to israel after the war. the story is told from the perspective of his daughter by his second wife who goes to poland to see what survives of the huge jewish community at bedzin where the laskier family lived.

equally moving, and equally horrific, albeit different circumstances from the frank family in amsterdam.


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do you know if the series was shot in the house b and h?

I wouldn't think so - I'm not sure the trustees of the museum would allow it and besides, it really is a small space. The bedroom that Anne and Mr Dussel (sp?) shared - you can stand in the middle and spread your arms and virtually touch both walls. The staircases are very steep and it's quite amazing that so many people lived there for so long.

Just in the middle of reading the book, which is good, so would be interesting to watch the bbc version after