The Diary of Anne Frank

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Is anyone watching this? Ds is fascinated by it- i have been filling him in on the background, bits of it any way, not sure how much a 6 year old will get.

He was even more interested when i told him i visited the Annexe when i was a teenager- (me and an endless queue of Americans)!

Is anyone else watching?

I feel the same Sexonfire my nan was the only person who got out of Germany in time she lost everyone including her twin brother.

I never knew any of this when I was growing up she married an English soilder (my grandad obv) she died when I was 21 I wish I had known her better .

It must have been so hard when she actually found out that all her family were dead and missing ,it also makes me feel ill when I think if she hadn't have left when she did a whole new family would not have existed .

Funny you mentioning nightmares I had one last night too although I can't remember exactly what it was about .

CWWM I gor goosebumps reading your post.

I think as adults we have a greater understanding of the horror and terror that people went through. Maybe that was why we had nightmares? My nightmare involved me hiding in my wardrobe, frfom tha approaching Gestapo. Strangely, most of my nightmares involve hiding and corridors. Do you think it's possible that strong emotions and memories are passed down via genes and that is why we sometimes have the terrifying nightmares? Still, I'm not complaining about my nightmares. They are meaningless compared to what millions of people the world over have to endure. You know, however uglier and wiser I get, I will never understand the senselessness of events like the Holocaust.

please excuse typos, crappy new tiny keyboard.

I didn't watch the documentary is it repeated ?

It is very odd but I always dream about warheads and bombs I mentioned it on another thread last night .

But the odd thing for me is that I never knew any of this while growing up but I was obsessed with the Holocaust I used to search out books in the library about it and think about it a lot (still do TBH).
Its an awful feeling knowing that families just like us will have had to endure horrors we can't even imagine .

The programme was so moving though My ds age 11 watched it with me and I think it has made him think a lot.

CWWM The documentary was on bbc4 so I'm assuming you can get it on iplayer for the next 6 days. It was called Anne Frank Remembered and I'm hoping to download it soon as I didn't think it was suitable for my DD.

Documentary here. Only saw part as I decided it was becoming too candid for the dc part way through. I notice it carries a warning but suspect we missed the introduction if it was stated on the programme itself.

Oh god an watching the rerun of fridays episode now and I am blubbing (PMT) but I know how it's going to turn out!!

MY son is asking me why I am getting upset!!

I watched first 3 episodes on Iplayer with DS age12, I asked him after the first one if he wanted to watch the next. He wanted to watch them all, he was entranced and fasinated, he read a book last year about jewish children split from their family, can't remember their name.

DD age 9 decided to watch the second and third one with us and I did a bit of a running commentary at first to explain whats what. She was a bit upset when they nearly got found and DS said its OK they will all be OK and turned to me saying won't they mummy , I had to say no they are not, I think I may have to watch the last one before I let them watch it so I can see how to deal with it with them, but I really do want them to see it but not if they will have nightmares, really depends how it is tackled.

It was the bits with Anne rebeling against her Mum and her mum just wanting to love her that got me, I was thinking how I would cope in that situation .

Thanks for the advice about the documentary, I will give that a miss with them hen.

Ds wants to visit the annex now, is it still there?

I thought it was brilliantly done, so moving.

Very impressed with Anne, just how I imagined the charactor.

very good wasn't it.

The Annex is still there think it's called Anne Frank House.

I watched the program and I have to say I think it was fantastically played by all, Anne was exactly how I expected her to be!

Very well done the documentary was alright but the pictures of the camps were a bit much for me, I feel awfully selfish saying that as obviously people actually endured that but I just felt that although we do need to be aware did we really need images of cannibalism and people being so degraded made me very

Those poor, poor people none of my family were affected directly by the holocoust but I do have relatives who faught for Britain during it and listening to the stories used to scare me so much, but in a way it made me very aware of the monsterous acts that people can be led into.

i watched this with ds (9) he now is pestering me to see the film - does it show a lot of the concentration camp? (I don't remember ever seeing it) he is very interested but i don't know i want him to see exactly what they went through iyswim.

I didn't realise they were all seperated - and died in different camps

How did Otto survive?

The first 45 minutes or so is fine - interesting interviews including Miep and Otto Frank and footage of the Annex . It is the accounts from people who knew her from concentration camps which start the more grusesome section. Shame they didn't also produce a documentary suitable for family viewing really.

Watched it with dd. Very good and the actors were perfect. I wouldn't have minded it being a bit longer really.

Not for children, but does anyone remember a film Life is Beautiful? Where a Jewish father pretends the war is a game to protect his son and help him to survive? I saw it once by chance and would love to watch it again.

i ant to watch The boy in the Striped pyjamas, but i know i will get upset...
Ditto Life is Beautiful...

The annexe, as far as I know is still a well visited tourist attraction in Amsterdam- _ i was there in 1988, in a way it seemed bigger than i expected, but of course i wasn't living in close proximity to 8 other people, many strangers, with no possibility of going outside

The fact they all died in different camps stuck with me, too.

What is the boy in striped pjamas about?

Life is beautiful is a fab film, it's on Film4 alot. I watched it one day when I was bored and it was really good very moving and would say it's suitable for kids to watch as I dont rememberthere being any violence infact there a few funny bits IIRC.

That got me too that they all died in different places when they kept saying, well in the program, no matter what happens they are the lucky ones because they have each other

I think Margot and Anne died at the same camp within a day of each other

Boy in the Striped pyjamas was originally a book, and now a film about a the 9 year old son of a camp commandant in Aushwittz, who has no idea what his father does for a living, or the significance of what he sees around him.

I haven't read the book, or seen the film, but the clips of it look very good, and i hope to watch it one day.

The book is by John Boyne, I'm sure there have been threads about it.

DD (10) and I have just watched episode 2, have the rest recorded. She's loving it. Me and my mum visited Anne Frank house about 3 years ago and dd was with us, obviously about 6 or 7 at the time and she understood bits about it but she cant really remember going there now. It was really moving. They still have her pictures on the wall of film stars etc

Moved to tears in the last episode, maybe more so as I went to the Anne Frank House 2 years ago this month (Holocaust Memorial Day coming up). bitterly ironic that Otto fought for the Germans in WW1.

in the programme, you could see how when Otto mentioned to the German that he had fought in the war, there was a momentary flash of - this is wrong- in his eyes. It really was a very well made and acted programme.