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The only video of Anne Frank is now on the Internet. It was an online success. Over 1.7 million people downloaded it in the first few days. The video is from a in Holland called the Anne Frank House. They it as part of YouTube’s new Anne Frank Channel. The film is only 21 long. It shows Anne, age 13, on the of her apartment. There are just a few brief of her waving to a wedding party. The of Anne were shot about a year before her family went into hiding from the Nazis.

This new video is a very part of history. Anne Frank is famous all over the world. She wrote a diary about from the Nazis during World War II. She the diary as a thirteenth birthday present. It helped millions of people about the horror of the Holocaust. ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ is one of most read books ever. It is an story of the last two years of her life. It is a warm but sad of her life in the attic. In 1999, ‘Time’ magazine listed her as one of the of the 20th century.