Anne Frank Channel on YouTube - the official Anne Frank House website

Anne Frank Channel on YouTube

Amsterdam - 30 September 2009

Today the Anne Frank House is launching the official Anne Frank Channel on YouTube containing existing and new images about Anne Frank. These include excerpts from interviews with Otto Frank and witnesses like Miep Gies, as well as previews of the virtual museum of the Anne Frank House, soon to be opened to the public. With the Anne Frank Channel on YouTube, people around the world will be able to explore the life and significance of Anne Frank through unique images.

The channel opens with the only existing film footage of Anne Frank, made during the wedding of her neighbor on 22 July 1941. In another film, Nelson Mandela talks about the strength he derived from Anne Frank’s diary during his imprisonment on Robben Island. The channel will also contain a series of new interviews with people who knew Anne Frank personally.

Virtual museum of the Anne Frank House

And there’s more. On YouTube, visitors can follow the development of the virtual museum, which will soon enable people to visit the Anne Frank House online. Visitors can watch the ‘making of’ the online secret annex in 3D. The virtual museum will be launched on 28 April 2010 as part of the 50-year anniversary celebrations of the Anne Frank House museum.

Audience projects about Anne Frank

YouTube visitors can subscribe to the Anne Frank Channel. Subscribers will be informed automatically when new films are added. They can also submit their own films on activities about Anne Frank, following the example of the Anne Frank Exhibition in Brazil. The best contributions will be added to the channel.

Partnership with YouTube

Mascha Driessen, Head of YouTube and Display Google in the Netherlands: “YouTube is keen to support the project because of the importance of making this content easily available to the wider public. We hope this YouTube channel will help broaden the reach of the Anne Frank House, its educational power and its message of tolerance.”

The official Anne Frank YouTube Channel has been created in partnership with LBi Lost Boys.