安妮·弗兰克的父亲奥托重回阁楼入口，那里曾是他和家人躲藏两年、直至遭到告发的地方。阿姆斯特丹，1960年。

Damn, poor guy. I couldnt deal with that, my whole family. Damn

We checked that out when we were there. It was an extremely good hiding place. Book case swiveled perfectly into place with a 100% seal. The setup of the house was pretty disorienting, and the house being in rows you couldn't tell how far back they go so it was perfect for hiding out.

I visited a museum recreation of the annex. The scariest part was walking up the recreation of the wood steps because you heard the thumps of your own footsteps. All I could think of was being in the annex on the morning that they were taken and hearing the commotion below and then hearing those thumps, and knowing who was coming. It was a deeply upsetting and heartbreaking experience that it's heart to describe in words but such an incredibly well-done exhibit. If you ever have the opportunity to visit anything like that, please do. Now more than ever, we must educate and insulate purse against the idea of genocide, a term by the way which arose from the holocaust because never had there been a word to describe the intentionally industrialized and engineered murder of specific groups of humans. All this to say, poor Otto, if I were him, hearing my own footsteps would have been indescribable. I pray that he and his family and all others impacted by the Holocaust know peace in their lives.

A tragedy that can never be forgotten!

Incredible photo. I thought it was a pencil drawing at first

Jordan Peterson would rat her out to the Nazis.

I have some original photos of him and his new wife, a photo of them and the man and woman who helped them during this, a photo of Anne Frank, a photo of the building and a post card with an arrow pointing where the building was. On the back of these are some dates and names and the handwriting matches Otto Franks handwriting. I found them in a first edition English version of the Diary of Anne Frank. I contacted the museum and sent them photos and they confirmed they was real and they asked if we could donate them. My parents were iffy about it and now theyre locked up in a safe that doesn't have a key, its been lost for years. 🙄 I never seen this photo. The museum said he liked writing with people that wrote him after the English version came out so they weren't too shocked that it ended up in bum fuck nowhere Oklahoma.

Think about it—two years hiding in terror. My heart goes out to them for their traumatic experiences.

I often think about that terrible moment when they heard that bookshelf door open in the daytime and knew it was all over. And poor Miep sitting at her desk downstairs watching those men storm up the stairs and then come down with the Franks and the other victims. Just so terrifying and heartbreaking to be that helpless.

I visited their house when I was 10 in 1998, 53 years after Anne Frank died. 53 years ago from right now is 1972, which sounds so recent. These horrible atrocities did not happen long ago, and as I get older the recency feels so much more significant.

I've walked through there. Wept when I saw her diary. When I understood how close she came to surviving the end of the war.

It was sound that gave them up wasn't it?

I always wondered how you could hide an entire attic. I understand how you could hide the entrance, but the existence of an attic? Then I checked this page: https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/ And it wasn't just an attic, it was 3 entire floors of the building that were "hidden". Seems even harder to believe, not that I don't.

What happened to the snitch? Did the find out who it was?

Never Agai...wait never mind

That was a mind-blowing place to visit in Amsterdam. I was surprised at how many journals she had filled up, the top floor had about 20(?) or so on display. I only thought she had the one diary, I was wrong.

If you got access to a VR headset, check out the entire hideout in the Anne Frank VR app, it's phenomenal. I remember that entrance very well from the experience. You open it manually.

As a society, we made a grave mistake by removing Anne Frank's diary from the required reading list. While the atrocities of the Holocaust are well known, seeing through the eyes of a child who had to hide her existence just hits different. And it was removed because of her description of puberty, after HER FATHER removed any pages that he found to be too descriptive of the subject. Taking this book out of school and public libraries screwed up generations of people.

It takes an incredibly strong man to go back there in front of the world as the lone survivor, but you can see their ghosts in his eyes, I swear you can. He probably felt so numb when that picture was taken and may have had to recover for like a few days afterwards. All conjecture, but as someone with basically lifelong PTSD, that’s what I’m gleaning.

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IIRC, the worst part is that they were outed by someone they were close with.

Not that it matters to the power of the picture, but I understand that the modern thinking is that they were not betrayed. The unit that discovered the Frank family was not primarily responsible for seeking out Jews but investigating ration card fraud. Some people now think that it was just the mechanics of trying to obtain food for the extra people beyond what should have been there that led the authorities to search closely.

Otto's life was like a rollercoaster that keeps going down. He grew up wealthy, but his family lost most of their wealth due to the war and discrimination. But he still had a small business and a wife and kids and was living a simply, middle class life despite the hardships and increasing discriminations. Then the concentration camp happened and he lost everything.