"Happy birthday, Anna." "Thank you, Pim." "Such a surprise, huh?" "Chose the nicest one, didn't you?" "We did." "'Writing in a diary is going to be a really strange experience for someone like me." "'Not only because I've never written anything before, 'but also because it seems to me that later on, neither I nor anyone else 'will be interested in the chatterings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl." "'The thing is, nobody would believe that I'm alone in the world." "'I have loving parents and a 16-year-old sister, 'and there are about 30 people I can call friends." "'I have a throng of admirers who can't keep their adoring eyes off me." "'No." "On the surface, I seem to have everything... 'except my one true friend." "'I hope I'll be able to confide everything to you 'and that you'll be a great source of comfort and support.'" "I'd love to." "Till tomorrow, then." "Where are you going to go?" "Just for a walk." "At least we can still do that." "'Jews are forbidden to go to the cinema, you see... 'or to swim, or go ice-skating, or use the parks, 'or sit on public benches, or use trams, or ride in cars." "'But we can still go out with a boy.'" "(You go.)" "Why?" "I don't want to look too keen." "What's happened?" "Don't answer the door." "Don't let anyone in." "But what is it?" "It's call-up papers." "Father." "But...they'll send him away to the labour camp." "Excuse me." "You dropped something." "Thank you." "You won't be going, of course." "Where's she not going?" "The summons was for me." "What?" "Why didn't you tell me?" "It's that friend of yours." "He'll think there's no-one here." "Why are they sending her?" "It's because I'm 16." "Why didn't you TELL me?" "We thought you were too young." "Too young?" "Annelies, sit down." "You must listen to me, very carefully." "We've been making arrangements to go into hiding..." "Hiding?" "Where?" "We planned to leave in about ten days' time but we've had to change it." "Is it in the country?" "I can't tell you yet, my darling, but we have to leave early tomorrow morning and we have to move fast." "Darling, Miep will take you separately." "It'll be safer that way." "Now you must say nothing to anyone." "Do you understand?" "Now, wear all the clothes you can and pack what you can carry in your schoolbag." "We can't be seen to carry suitcases." "Miep and Johannes will collect the rest of our things later." "He's gone." "I'll take Moortje." "'I packed the craziest things, but my brain was in a whirl." "'Anyway, memories mean more to me than dresses.'" "Leave them." "'We looked as if we were going to spend the night in a fridge." "'I was wearing two vests, three pairs of pants, a dress, a skirt and two pairs of stockings.'" "Ready?" "'I was suffocating even before we left the house.'" "Goodbye, Moortje." "It's here?" "Your office?" "I thought we were going to the country." "You must hurry up." "It's late." "The workers will be arriving." "Thank you, dear Miep." "'So much has happened since yesterday." "'It's as if the whole world has suddenly turned upside down." "'When the door closes, the reality is that we'll have to stay here until the war's over.'" "Well done, Margot." "That sewing machine..." "Hasn't that just gone to the menders?" "There's that little table." "I wondered where that went." "You sit down there, darling." "They're arriving." "It's 8.30." "Now... ..we have to stay very quiet until 12.30." "What?" "Shhh." "What happens if we need to go to the lavatory?" "'Father's warehouse was on the ground floor, you see, 'underneath his office." "'The warehouse men who worked there don't know anything about us, 'so while they're down there during the working day, we'll have to keep quiet.'" "Margot." "'No looking out of the windows." "No walking around in shoes." "'No running the taps." "No loud voices." "'No flushing of the lavatory." "'I don't know how I'm going to bear it.'" "'We can relax during the lunch hour when the men leave, 'and after 5.30 when they go home." "'The only people who know we're here are the office staff." "'And they're risking their lives to look after us.'" "We're lucky." "We're really very lucky." "What'll happen to them if they get found out?" "Now, let's get these unpacked, and... ..make some lunch." "'I don't think I'll ever feel at home in this house, but that doesn't mean I'll hate it." "'Father's brought some books and says we can have some games." "'I've even got my collection of film stars.'" "Just like home." "What are you going to put on your side, Margot?" "Don't know." "I know it's difficult, Margot, my darling, but at least we haven't been separated." "So many families have." "At least we've got each other." "Cheer up, my love." "Pim, can you smell smoke?" "Edith!" "Mother!" "It's all right, Anna." "It's only a saucepan, my love." "Shhh..." "It's all right." "Sweetheart, will you go and finish your unpacking?" "Please..." "Please." "Good girl." "Darling... we're going to be all right." "We're going to be all right." "You stop this." "Stop it." "That's it." "Now, come on." "You must be strong for me." "You must be strong." "'I don't know what I feel yet." "'It's like being on holiday in some strange boarding house." "'It's a bit damp and lopsided, but it's probably the most comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam." "'No, in all of Holland." "'Daddy's right." "'We're very lucky." "'The first thing we have to do is sew some curtains so no-one can see us.'" "Slowly." "'Actually, you can hardly call them that since they're nothing but scraps of fabric.'" "Most artistic, isn't it?" "Perhaps we should sell it to an art gallery when the war's over." "Shhh!" "'We can't call a doctor, of course... 'for obvious reasons.'" "12.30." "It's all clear." "Have some more water." "Miep, how wonderful to see you." "Have you seen Hanneli?" "Has she asked after me?" "No." "I haven't seen her." "But you live opposite her." "Haven't you seen anyone from my school?" "Sssh, dear." "Did you get the medicine, Miep?" "He's collecting some more Russian books today." "Where's he getting them from?" "I didn't ask." "You have a very brave husband." "And a helpful greengrocer!" "I'll collect your shopping list at 8.30 each morning, and then try and come at lunchtimes." "Please do." "I can't thank you enough." "Watch out for your heads." "I had to lower the wall there to make the bookcase fit." "Nobody will believe there's anybody here." "Now our secret annexe is truly secret." "'We're making ourselves useful." "'Today's been fun." "We've stoned three crates of plums for Mr Kugler." "'He and Mr Kleiman are running Father's office until the war's over." "'They make pectin for jam and mix up spices for sausages." "'I've bagged the crates for our bedroom." "'But we won't be alone for long." "'Today, the Van Daans are joining us." "'Mr Van Daan works for my father." "'He's got a good nose for sniffing spices.'" "It'll be much more fun to have other people around." "I don't like the quiet." "It makes me nervous." "Oww!" "Welcome." "Are you all right?" "Bumped my head." "Phew!" "I'm quite out of puff." "What a lovely hat." "Oh, thank you, dear." "You know our son, Peter." "I've seen you at school." "What's that?" "This is Moortje." "But we agreed." "No animals." "It's not fair." "Why should HE be allowed a cat?" "I told you not to bring him." "You didn't let me bring Moortje." "He'll be very good." "I'll look after him." "The dear boy loves his pussycat, don't you, sweetheart?" "And besides, you'll thank us for it." "This place must be... crawling with mice." "'I don't expect Peter's company to amount to much, 'but I suppose I'll have to put up with him.'" "Careful on the stairs." "They're a little tricky." "Watch these steps, too." "This is Mother and Father's room." "And this is where Margot and I sleep." "This is Greta Garbo." "I love her movies, don't you?" "And that's Princess Elizabeth of England and that's Margaret Rose." "Are you interested in royal families, at all?" "This is the bathroom." "You have to be finished by 8.30 in the morning." "There's cold water in the sink, but when the workers have gone home, we can use the lavatory in father's office, downstairs." "And we can listen to the wireless there, too." "Come on!" "Please, help." "I am." "This is the living room for all of us, but your parents will sleep in it at night." "Mr Kleiman's made them a fold-up bed." "This is your room." "Isn't it cosy?" "Come on." "Come up here." "And this is my favourite place of all." "We can make more noise up here." "And we're allowed to open the windows so we can breathe the fresh air." "That's the Tower of the Westerkerk." "Mother hates the bells, but I love them." "They remind me of the outside." "I come up here when people get on my nerves." "Do your parents ever annoy you?" "Mine do, especially Mother." "Can I hold him?" "He's a bit shy." "(He's such a clot." "Sh!" "He's just shy.)" "Of all the boys around, we have to have HIM." "I think he's rather sweet." "Margot, you always think the best of everybody." "He's not used to girls and he's frightened." "We're ALL frightened." "They had a very narrow escape." "This last week has been terrible." "Yesterday, they rounded up 700 Jews." "Our friends, the Goslers, you remember them, they disappeared last night." "Please, let's talk about this later." "People think you've gone to Switzerland." "Your neighbour rang me, said you'd left in a hurry, so I went round and searched your place." "That's when I found the note you'd left." "What note?" "It had an address" "I told him to destroy it in case anyone found out." "Next day, everybody was telling me you'd fled to Switzerland!" "Did you see my cat?" "What cat?" "She'll be fine, dear." "Mrs Schmidt will be looking after her." "Is she all right?" "There is a war on, you know." "We've got more important things on our minds than cats." "So why did you bring yours, then?" "Edith, where's that bottle of cognac?" "Cognac?" "We kept it for your arrival." "'I was really looking forward to having the Van Daans join us." "'Now, I'm not so sure.'" "Welcome to the annexe, my friends." "We're very grateful to you, aren't we, Petronella?" "Oh, my dear." "She'll be all right." "'At the weekend, we get the run of the whole building." "'Today, Mother sent me downstairs to do everyone's laundry.'" "Anne." "'Then she gave me another one of her lectures.'" "Anna!" "'Take the opposite view on everything." "'Every day, I feel myself drifting further away from her." "'It's hard to believe that only a month ago it was my birthday." "We were so happy." "'Father says I should be nicer to her, 'but sometimes I want to slap her across the face.'" "You don't need all that stuff on your face." "It's not stuff, it's make-up." "It's costing us a fortune!" "Then we can't afford your cigarettes, but that doesn't..." "My cigarettes are not a luxury," "What do you want me to do?" "Walk down the street to the apartment and pick up the make-up?" "Who is it for?" "'It's only up here that I can feel free." "'Soon, there'll be conkers on the chestnut tree." "'Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say." "'And I'm terrified our hiding place'll be discovered and we'll be shot." "'That, of course, is a fairly dismal prospect." "'The lavatory's blocked again." "'Father's trying to unjam it." "'He's fished out several pounds of excrement and strawberry recipes, 'which is what we've been using as toilet paper.'" "Eurgh!" "Is it fixed yet?" "'Everything's so embarrassing." "We all know each other's secrets." "'Margot's an idiot if she thinks no-one notices her little packages.'" "I'm afraid it's still blocked." "Ugh!" "What are you going to do with that?" "Burn it." "We've got to use these." "Oh, you must be joking." "It's all right for you, you've got a spout." "Erm..." "Edith, turn off the tap." "Miep says the plumber's arriving soon." "What, already?" "It's nearly half past eight." "What if he comes upstairs?" "Sh." "Peter!" "Shut up and put that down!" "Oh!" "You oaf!" "Sh!" "'The banging went on for hours.' Sh!" "'We kept on praying he could fix it from downstairs." "'Thank goodness he did." "'The lavatory's working again, 'but everyone's been in a foul mood all day." "'And they all gang up on me, it's been driving me crazy." "'Margot never takes my side, she never does anything wrong." "'Why did I have to have HER for a sister?" "'Only Father comes to my rescue." "Without him, I wouldn't be able to stick it out here.'" "No, thank you." "Oh, eat your cabbage, pet." "The potatoes are quite enough." "But cabbage is good for you, I'm sure your parents would agree." "Do eat it up, Anne." "I don't WANT to!" "Don't snap at your mother!" "I can do what I like." "Please, Father!" "She doesn't want it, Mrs Van Daan." "If you ask me, that child's spoilt." "That would NEVER happen in our house." "My dear boy was brought up to do as he was told, weren't you, sweetie?" "Now, if she were my daughter..." "But she's not." "And if you don't mind me saying, you're not eating yours either." "Excuse me, Mr Frank, but cabbage gives me wind." "Oh, you find that funny, do you?" "She's such a twit." "Anne!" "She gets on your nerves too, you just don't say so." "She doesn't want to be here any more than we do." "Stop being reasonable." "And as for Peter, Mummy's little treasure," "I've never known such a geek." "What are you doing?" "It's all those beans." "What do you think RSVP means?" "Danger." "It means please reply, idiot." "'Geography, French, horrible Maths.'" "Sh!" "Hermann." "'You've no idea what agony it is, sitting still for four hours." "when we go back to school.'" "I've learnt two new words today," ""courtesan" and "brothel"." "Stop playing with that silly cat, sweetie." "I've rubbed out the crossword so you can do it now." "All clear." "I'm bursting." "Fetch the bread, Son." "He's doing the crossword." "He hasn't got very far, has he?" "'That's one of Peter's jobs." "'Every day the baker delivers five loaves of bread and leaves them downstairs." "'It doesn't look suspicious because people think they're for the staff.'" "Mr Frank, can I ask you a favour?" "Of course." "Would you give Peter lessons, too?" "How about asking me first?" "Putti!" "What do you think you're going to teach him?" "Please, Mr Frank, he's already behind at school." "You're so clever." "Unlike some people I could mention." "Do I have your permission, Mr Van Daan?" "Go ahead." "It will do him good." "Then if the girls agree, I'd be delighted." "Oh!" "..Thank you, Mr Frank!" "Oh!" "You're the dearest man in the world!" "Stop it!" "How would you like it if my mother started flirting with your husband?" "Anna!" "Margot!" "'Thank heavens for Miep.'" "'Every day she brings us our groceries 'and news of the outside world.'" "Have you got my shampoo?" "I'm afraid there wasn't any in the shops." "W-What am I going to wash my hair with?" "Soap?" "I'll search again tomorrow." "She's doing her best." "Have you been past my school?" "Did you see any of my friends?" "Couldn't you go in there and ask?" "Anna, she hasn't any time." "They're rounding up more Jews." "They've raised the reward to 25 guilders." "Bep's boyfriend is being sent to fight in Germany." "Poor Bep." "They've raided the Van Daans' apartment and taken away all their belongings." "Oh, no!" "Girls, don't tell them." "It makes me ashamed to be German." "We're no longer German." "Hitler took that away from us long ago." "Please stay with us, Miep, you promised." "You and Jan can have our room downstairs." "Don't pester her, dear." "We get so frightened in the dark." "I want you to be here, with us." "I'm going to get MY period soon, I can tell." "I keep finding a white smear in my panties." "Anne!" "What does it feel like?" "I don't want to talk about it." "Please." "Ask Mother." "Mother?" "I wish you were nicer to her." "I am nice to her!" "WATER RUNS" "But she always takes it the wrong way and snaps at me." "Do you know what she said the other day?" "That I was always looking on the bright side." "Since when was that a fault?" "But you always snap at HER." "But she doesn't understand me." "Nor do you." "I WISH my friends were here!" "You're not the only one." "Do you think I want to be cooped up here?" "Do you think I don't miss my friends?" "You're not so special." "You just make more noise about it." "Oh, everybody loves YOU." "I'm not even pretty." "Do you think I'm pretty?" "You're OK, I suppose." "You mean I'm ugly." "You've got nice eyes." "Is that all?" "Boys seem to like you." "That's true." "But what good's that going to do me here?" "'I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed while out there, 'my dearest friends are at the mercy of the cruellest monsters 'who ever stalked the earth.'" "Anne!" "Anne!" "Pim." "Can I get in?" "Come to me, darling." "I want Pim." "Can I get in?" "Come on, then." "Put that out!" "Otto." "No lights." "It's all right for you!" "You've been in the trenches!" "We have to have rules." "To hell with the rules!" "Please, Daddy!" "All right, darling." "All right." "'Today it's Saturday, and the warehousemen aren't around 'so we can get up late, and have our baths." "'We can go anywhere in the house, but I like to use our toilet.'" "'Mr Van Daan takes his bath in Peter's room, 'while Mrs Van Daan has yet to take a bath." "'She's waiting to see which is the best place." "'Mother washes in the living room, behind a screen, 'while Father takes his bath in the office downstairs." "'I wish they'd all hurry up.'" "Please stay up here for the next half an hour." "Please stay up here for the next half an hour." "I've got it." "I've got it." "It's not heavy." "Right, right." "Ah, Dad, the water!" "Useless boy!" "'Peter baths downstairs in the radio room, you see, 'and he's terrified that someone's going to walk in on him.' I've got it." "'His precautions are rather pathetic, aren't they?" "' DOOR CREAKS" "Aw!" "Mother!" "'And Margot baths in the front office, 'where she makes ME stand guard.'" "Oh, do hurry up." "You took long enough." "Anne!" "They'll see you!" "We're allowed to peek through." "Father said so." "It's funny to see all those people." "I used to throw water at them." "You didn't!" "They used to jump up to see where it came from." "Now they're looking up for bombs." "'And yet life is carrying on." "'That's the strange thing." "'There's a family living in the barge - they've got the sweetest dog." "'Once I even saw a Jewish couple, walking along the street." "'I felt I was gazing at one of the Seven Wonders Of The World." "'It gave me such a funny feeling, 'as if I'd denounced them to the authorities.'" "Excuse me." "My dear friends, today we have news of our own." "We all know the dreadful things that are happening outside." "I wonder if you'd consider another person joining us." "Who?" "Mr Albert Dussel." "I know him!" "He's that dentist." "He's very respectable." "He's at Miep's apartment, waiting for your decision." "But why him?" "You wouldn't let my cousins come." "Mr Dussel's a single man." "We only have room for one." "One more mouth to feed." "We could all eat a bit less." "Speak for yourself." "Oh, don't be such a greedy guts." "He's not going to smoke all your precious cigarettes, is he?" "Well?" "Yes, yes." "Thank you, dear friends." "You said we didn't have to go to the dentist." "You're not." "He's coming to you." "'Mr Dussel arrived at the office and when Miep brought him upstairs 'and told him we were behind the bookcase, he was so astonished he nearly fainted." "'Thank goodness she didn't leave him in suspense any longer.'" "What are you doing here?" "I thought you were in Switzerland." "Please, sit." "Smoke?" "Er, no." "Thank you." "The Weismanns swore they saw you being taken away in a truck." "And Mr Niklaus said you'd gone into hiding in the country." "What's happened to Ilse?" "Who?" "Darling, let him get his breath." "Ilse Wagner." "She lives in your building." "The parents were taken away." "I don't know what happened to the children." "No." "Hermann Van Daan." "You know my wife, Petronella, and this is my son, Peter." "Peter." "Would you care for a cup of coffee, Mr Dussel?" "It's ersatz, I'm afraid, and we have to make it in a jug." "I'm still waiting for my coffee machine." "You can have some of OUR sugar." "What's happening?" "Please tell us." "6,000 Jews have gone." "They've even started to take them out of the lunatic asylums." "There's talk of mass sterilisation." "Please." "Let's speak later." "You never told us." "I've got to go." "Now...we have to keep quiet until lunchtime." "I'm so very grateful." "Sh." "I've finished it." "Why does he have to sleep here?" "He has nowhere else to go." "But why with me?" "They said it would be unsuitable for me to share a room with a grown man." "And I don't matter, I suppose." "They don't mean that." "I'm just a child." "They did ask if you minded." "What was I supposed to say?" "Anne, I'd much rather be here with you." "This is my bed?" "You've got the long one." "We had to prop up my mattress with a chair." "I hope you'll find me a pleasant companion." "Many of my patients are children, I get on very well with them." "I'm not a child, actually." "I'm 13." "You can put your things...in here." "'I'm not exactly delighted at having a stranger use my things, but you have to make sacrifices 'for a good cause and I'm glad I can make this small one.'" "Who's that?" "My fiancee, Lotte." "'But he's ancient.' Can I have a look?" "What lovely blonde hair." "I like the flick-ups." "She looks much younger than you." "Yes." "Yes." "She'll be horrified when she finds I've gone." "She has no idea where, you see..." "Well, of course, nor did I." "We've been gone for four months now." "I don't know what my friends are thinking, I don't know if they're still there." "But we keep cheerful." "We have to stay cheerful." "More potatoes, Mrs Frank?" "Thank you." "More potatoes, Mr Dussel?" "Cabbage, Anne?" "No, thank you." "Mr Dussel, would you like some more cabbage?" "No, thank you." "That was quite sufficient." ""Prospectus for the Secret Annexe." ""A unique facility for the accommodation of Jews and other displaced persons." ""Open all year round." "No charge." "Low-fat diet." ""Running water in the bathroom and various inside and outside walls." "(She hasn't finished yet.)" ""It is forbidden to listen to German news bulletins," ""as only the language of civilised people may be used." Hear, hear!" ""No leisure activities allowed outside the house until further notice," ""though callisthenics are encouraged by management and singing is allowed after 6.00pm. The end." "Yours, Anne."" "Goodnight, Annelies." "Goodnight, Mr Dussel." "'We've been here for three months now and it's getting cold." "'Mother and Mrs Van Daan are at loggerheads again." "'Thank goodness for Father." "He's above all the petty squabbles.'" "Do you remember when I was always at the office, always busy?" "Now I have all the time in the world just to be with you." "And I don't have to do any more horrible piano practice or go to the dentist." "You see?" "There are so many good things about being here." "How do I do this?" "I haven't got a clue." "Ask my genius of a sister." "I'm busy at the moment." "When you've finished, I thought we could translate this together." "But it's a prayer book." "What's wrong with that?" "It's just I'm not that interested in religion." "We never really went to synagogue or anything." "We did sometimes." "Only when you made us." "Anyway, why should I worship God?" "What's He ever done for us?" "Anna, Anna...you can't..." "What's that?" "Miep gave it to me." "Anna?" "I've finished." "Look at that hat!" "Hm." "I had one like that, but mine had a little veil." ""Mrs Kroler was resplendent in a shot green taffeta gown, trimmed with satin."" "You should have seen me in my first ball gown." "Midnight blue, shot silk, slashed to here." "I was an early developer." "You can say that again." "Did you have a lot of boyfriends?" "(Anne!" ")" "Bees round a honey pot." "Tell me about your first one." "Well, he was in my class at school." "His name was Willem Mesler," "I was just 16." "The same age as you, pet." "He gave me my first kiss." "What was it like?" "Mother, don't!" "What was it like?" "It was..." "It was like..." "What's that?" "Oh, my God!" "What is it?" "It's footsteps." "Sh." "They've got into the attic." "They must have climbed through the roof." "Do something, Hermann." "Me?" "Go up and have a look." "Get off your fat bottom for a change!" "I'll go." "No, Otto." "I'll go." "No, you can't, my sweetheart." "You going to let our boy go up there and be killed by Nazis?" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "No, no...please..." "Otto." "It's rats." "Great big ones!" "Ow!" "Oh, my darling!" "Mother." "You're so brave." "You're SO brave!" "Useless bloody cat!" "He's not." "I told you we should have left it at home." "Eating up all our meat." "One of them bit me." "Oh, darling!" "Oh, darling!" "Oh, sweetie pie." "Thank you, dear." "Thank you." "(47..48..49..50.." "(Morning, Annelies.)" "Morning. (52..53..54...)" "Mr Dussel is a champion sportsman, don't you know?" "He's so old." "He likes to keep himself trim." "Unlike SOME people I could mention." "Huh." "You don't have to sleep with him." "And he snores." "Morning, Mr Dussel." "Morning, everybody." "How's the rib, Mrs Van Daan?" "Very painful, Mr Dussel." "(Why's she suddenly taken up exercises?" "(To get rid of her fat bottom, I suppose.)" "Just here...just..." "Ahem!" "Mr Dussel is a trained medic, Putti." "We're lucky to have another expert on the premises." "That's why my friend Mr Frank hired me." "These should see us through the winter." "Ooh!" "I wish you didn't have to sell spices." "Why couldn't you have chosen something nice, like sweets?" "In wartime, Anne, spices are more essential than ever to preserve meat, and to flavour its substitutes." "And so is pectin, for making jam at home." "She knows that, Mr Dussel." "It was only a joke." "(Wow!" "Mother Frank, the Children's Advocate.)" "'It must be hard for Father, trying to run a business from up here." "'Especially with his arthritis." "'Today there was an important meeting.'" "We'll have the contracts prepared for tomorrow." "'The negotiations were long and boring." "'Mr Kleiman and Mr Kugler did their best for us, but...it turned out to be more serious than we expected.'" "The building's being sold?" "And the new owner's coming this afternoon." "To look it over." "Oh, my God." "Sssshhh!" "'All sounds of breathing stopped... '..eight hearts pounded, 'footsteps on the stairs, then a rattling on the bookcase..." "'He's so close." "'This moment is indescribable.'" "(Stay here...idiot!" ")" "Oh, Mr Kleiman!" "I said I'd left the key to the annexe at home." "They won't be taking over the lease until the spring." "War may be over by then." "You don't really believe that, do you?" "Edith..." "What's the matter?" "The greengrocer's gone." "What?" "He's disappeared." "No-one knows what's happened to him." "He's been arrested!" "We don't know that." "He'll tell the police about us!" " Of course he won't." " He doesn't know about you." "He's a good man." "I trust him completely." "Aren't you going to stay?" "I've got to get home." "Miep?" "..Make sure she gets it." "Of course, Mr Dussel." "Please give her all my love." "I always do." "She asked me to give you this." "There's a letter inside." "Thank you." "'Mr Dussel is slipping lower and lower in my estimation, and he's already below zero.'" "Pim, you've got to say something." "Anne, please..." "Shh." "Why can he send out letters and I can't?" "He's putting us in danger." "He's putting Miep in danger." "If they catch her, she'll be tortured!" "What if his darling Lotte tells somebody, what if Miep gets followed back here?" "Look, Mr Dussel's fiancee has no idea where he is." "She thinks he's hiding in the countryside." "Oh, Anna, dearest." "I disapprove as much as you." "Do something, then!" "He's lonely, dear." "He's got nobody here who loves him." "He's not the only one!" "She's right." "He shouldn't be doing it." "'The Allies are pushing ahead, but there's no end in sight." "'Mr Churchill's had pneumonia, but he's better, thank goodness." "'Gandhi, the champion of Indian freedom, is on one of his umpteenth hunger strikes." "'Outside, it's the most beautiful day.'" "What's the matter?" "Look how much butter she's given us." "Compared to theirs." "Say something to her." "I can't." "You shout at me, why don't you shout at HER?" "(I can't!" ")" "'I have no choice, because I can picture what a mother 'and a wife should be, and can't seem to find anything of the sort 'in the woman I'm supposed to call Mother.'" "Excuse me, it's my turn." "Can I borrow your dictionary?" "It's not just them who are greedy." "Look at this!" "He's been hoarding all this, the stingy old miser!" "After all we've done for him!" "And the staff, who're risking their lives for us." "They haven't got enough food, either." "Mr Kleiman needs oranges for his bad stomach." "'I do TRY to like him, really I do." "'But he keeps lecturing me and, worse than that, telling tales to Mother." "'So she starts lecturing me all over again, 'and if I'm really lucky, Mrs Van Daan muscles in and has another go.'" "Could you hurry up?" "(Use the potty!" ")" "'And His Excellency's always wanting to use the lavatory." "'Four or five times a day!" "'He sits in there for hours." "'To whom it may concern - Mr Dussel's Toilet Timetable." "'Mornings from 7.15 to 7.30am." "'Afternoons after 1pm.'" "What are you up to?" "Nothing." "'Otherwise, only as needed.'" "It's the only place he can be alone." "Don't you hate him, too?" "I feel sorry for him." "Stop being such a goody-goody." "I'm going to get my revenge on him, you wait and see." "I'm going to unscrew the light bulbs and hide his clothes..." "You can't!" "You don't have to live with him." "What are you up to?" "'What do you think, idiot?" "'" "We're just filling gravy packets for downstairs." "'It's terribly boring, the sort of work they do in prisons." "'But we want to be helpful, of course." "'But it's so hard sometimes, being helpful, being sensible, tiptoeing 'around everybody, holding my tongue when I want to scream and shout!" "'" "'The Germans...'" "'I don't know how long I can bear it without exploding.'" "'..that measure of fire and steel... 'which they have so often meted out to others... '.." "Now this is not the end." "'It is not even the beginning of the end." "'But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." "'This war seems to be going on for ever.'" "Are you asleep?" "..No." "(Say something cheerful.)" "(Please.)" "(Which is worse?" "(Snoring or gasping for air?" "(Farts!" ")" "(Shhhhhhhh!" ")" "Always got your nose in a book, haven't you, young miss?" "Mr Dussel's using my desk." "Eh?" "Otherwise I'd be reading in my room." "Young ladies shouldn't be stuffing their heads with nonsense." "You should read more, Mr Van Daan, then you wouldn't talk such rubbish." "Anne!" "You said Mr Dussel was only going to stay for a few weeks." "Now Miep and Jan can never spend the night with us." "Do stop complaining, dear." "Stop complaining and help your mother." "It's none of your business!" "Don't you talk to my husband like that!" "Eurgh!" "I don't know you you put up with it!" "If she were my daughter, I..." "Don't you get sarcastic with me." "Ha!" "Ha!" "I don't know, these modern girls!" "Margot, stick up for me!" "Margot reads just as much as I do." "Margot doesn't answer back." "She was such a good baby." "Slept all through the night." "Ah!" "Just like my Peter, didn't you, pet?" "And he learnt to use the potty at 18 months." "Mother!" "Our Peter's a good boy." "He might not be an intellectual like you, but he's gonna go places." "The trouble is, you know far too much about things you're not supposed to." "Later on, when you're older, you won't be able to enjoy anything any more." "That's not true!" "You'll say, oh, I read that 20 years ago, so you'd better hurry if you want to catch a husband, or fall in love, since everything is bound to be a disappointment to you." "You know all there is to know, in theory." "But in practice?" "Well, that's another story." "Thank you, Mrs Beaverbrook." "Why did you call her Mrs Beaverbrook?" "Because she always agrees with Mr Beaverbrook, on the wireless." "What does Mr Beaverbrook say?" "Haven't you been listening, dimwit?" "That they're not bombing Germany hard enough." "So I think she should be married to him." "Oh, you do, do you, Miss Quack Quack?" "What did you say?" "Miss Quack Quack." "Anne!" "Where did you find it?" "Give it back!" "An Incorrigible Chatterbox, by Anne Frank, class 6." "Give it back!" "As a punishment for talking in class..." "Quack Quack Quack, said Mistress Chatterback..." "You stole my pencil." "I haven't seen your stupid pencil." "Anne!" "Oh!" "What's the hurry?" "Having fun?" "Can anyone join in?" "Is my desk free now?" "Of course." "It's still all sticky." "I had to wash it with soap." "Mrs Van Daan's got some shampoo." "I saw it in her cupboard." "I really don't know what we're celebrating." "Mother!" "We've got a lot to be thankful for." "Like what?" "Well, we've got enough to eat, we've got each other, we've got the kindest and bravest helpers in the world." "You sound just like your father!" "Well, at least he's not always moaning all the time and snapping at me." "Oh!" "And he's not always siding with Margot." "Another tooth gone." "Was I really that difficult as a baby?" "You were rather tiring, dear." "I can't help it, it's just how I am." "I'm sorry, is Mouschi in here?" "I've got to lock him in the attic because of the fleas." "Barukh atah Adonai," "Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam..." "'And then Hanukkah arrived.'" "Mazal tov!" "# Ma'oz Tzur Yeshu'ati" "# Lekha na'eh leshabe'ah" "# Tikon belt tefilati" "# Vesham toda nezabe'ah" "# Le'et takhin... #" "# Az egmor beshir" "# Mizmor hanukat... #" "Excuse me." "Mouschi!" "He peed on the floor!" "I forgot his litter tray." "Idiot!" "Quack quack!" "'The food shortages are getting worse." "'Bep bought me these sandals, but my feet are freezing." "'Bep's coming up from the office to eat with us every lunchtime at the moment." "'I don't know how she stands it." "'Mr Van Daan's in a filthy temper because he can't get enough cigarettes." "'In fact, everyone's been getting on everyone else's nerves.'" "My father simply adored me." "He gave me lots of tips for the boys." "He told me, if a gentleman gets fresh with you, just say, remember, sir," "I'm a lady." "Bep understands, don't you, dear?" "I'm sure you have lots of beaux." "Leave the girl alone!" "She doesn't mind, do you, dear?" "Would you like more soup?" "Ooh, you have a good appetite, haven't you?" "I don't suppose there's enough to eat in your house, with all those brothers and sisters and your father off sick." "More soup, Margot?" "No, thank you." "Watching your weight, are you, dear?" "Will you stop this stupid chatter!" "(Hurry up!" ")" "I wish MY hair was blonde." "Isn't she pretty?" "When I grow up, I'm going to be in the movies." "Can I have a look?" "You wouldn't be interested." "She's such a swot." "I heard that." "I know she's my sister, but we haven't got anything in common." "If we weren't cooped up here, we'd hardly speak to each other." "Oh, Bep, you're so lucky!" "You can go out and breathe the fresh air and go skating and eat ice cream with your friends!" "I miss my friends so much." "I just sit at my desk all day, then I go home and help Mother." "You're so lucky..." "Anyway, it's winter." "There's no ice cream." "It's half past one." "Anne?" "What have you said to Margot?" "Nothing!" "She's very upset." "I'm NOT upset!" "Pim, it's so unfair." "Sshh-shh." "It's twenty to six, Mr Dussel." "Would you be good enough to let me use the desk now?" "I'm not ready." "It's my turn." "I have important work to do, young lady." "So do I." "What, scribbling in your diary?" "It's my room just as much as yours!" "You already use it for an hour and a half, five days a week." "And during my nap." "But you have it twice as much as me!" "And why is that?" "Hm?" "Because I'm a professional, not a little girl." "I'm not a little girl." "Anne, could you help with the potatoes?" "Mother, please stick up for me!" "No more arguments, please." "But, it's so unfair!" "Stop it, Anne!" "Why do you make everything into such a drama?" "I'm so sorry, Mr Dussel." "Whose side are you on?" "When you first came here, Mr Dussel, when you first came here, we agreed that the room would be shared by the two of us." "Logically, that would mean I would have the morning and you'd have the afternoon." "I'm not asking much, just two more hours twice a week." "And where would I do my work?" "My nice little surgery on the Herengracht?" "!" "Well, you could always work in the lavatory." "You spend long enough in there." "Oh, sorry." "What is it, dear?" "It's Mr Dussel." "Can we speak later?" "We only have half an hour." "Mr Kugler has to go." "Oh, well, wait a moment, Anne." "Will you excuse me, Mr Kugler?" "What is is, darling?" "Please say something to Mr Dussel!" "Mother won't help, she's being horrible, as usual." "Oh, come on." "I know it's a difficult situation, you need your privacy to study, and so does my daughter." "(Good old Father.) If I may say so, Mr Frank, she's a very...headstrong child." "(Anne!" ")" "Shh!" "Now, if it were Margot, I wouldn't mind." "Writing is very important to her." "I believe it's the only way she can make some sense of the world... find solace in these terrible circumstances." "Work and hope, that's what we tell our daughters, Mr Dussel." "That's why we believe so strongly in their education." "The only freedom... is in here." "This is our hope for the future." "Out of respect for you, I'll agree." "(Yes!" ")" "I don't want people to say that Anne failed her exams because of me." "Thank you, Mr Dussel." "Oh, Father, I love you more than anybody else in the world!" "Sshh!" "What about your mother?" "She doesn't love me like you do." "Anna, that's not true." "'Mr Dussel sulked for two days." "'So childish of him, don't you think?" "'Sundays are so lonely without our helpers." "'Outside, things are getting worse." "'Miep met my teacher in the street last week." "'There are only four of my classmates left." "'She didn't know which ones." "'Women come home from shopping to find their house sealed and their children gone." "'Children come home from school to find their parents disappeared.'" "My dear Miep, thank you so much!" "It's a pleasure." "I hope..." "'And, to add to our woes, Mr Dussel has started work.'" "Keep quiet, woman!" "They'll hear you in the street!" "Somebody come and help." "Somebody, please!" "Ssh, all right, all right." "Open up." "It'll be over soon." "Ssh, ssh, ssh!" "Done!" "Next?" "Night night." "What are you doing?" "My Latin." "Don't you ever stop studying?" "You don't understand, do you?" "What?" "It's the only way I can survive." "Why don't you put this on your bed?" "I'm FINE!" "Why can't I make you LOVE me?" "Gracias por su ayuda hoy." "That's not Hebrew." "No, it's Spanish." "Spanish?" "Yes, it means, "thank you for your help today"." "Is that what you're studying?" "I've reached Level Three." "You see, when the war is over," "Charlotte and I plan to emigrate to South America." "You never told me." "No." "Buenas noches." "Bu...enas no..ches." "Buenas noches." "# Happy birthday, dear Anna" "# Happy birthday to you. #" "APPLAUSE" "Make a wish." "LOUD SNORE" "'It's my 14th birthday today and I've been thoroughly spoiled." "'I've had a book on mythology, a pot of yoghurt, 'a brooch made out of a penny...' 'and...'" "..Your life can be trying, for we have the chore, of becoming your teachers, a terrible bore." "You read and study all the day, determined to keep the boredom away." "The more difficult question, much harder to bear, is, "what on earth do I have to wear?"" "I've got no more knickers, my clothes are too tight, my vest is a loincloth, I'm really a sight!" "To put on my shoes I must cut off my toes." "Oh, dear, I'm plagued with so many woes!" "CHUCKLING AND APPLAUSE" "Thank you, Father." "Anne, what goes, "99, thump"?" "I don't know." "What?" "A centipede with a wooden leg!" "THEY LAUGH" "HE COUGHS" "Happy birthday." "Sorry I haven't got any wrapping paper." "They're my niece's, she's outgrown them." "Thank you, Miep." "Oh, look at her!" "Sweet 14 and never been kissed." "It's 16, stupid." "It wasn't for ME!" "'I feel like I'm on stilts, 'but I'll practise and practise until I get used to them." "'What's happening to me is so wonderful, 'and I don't just mean the changes on the outside of my body, but the inside too.'" "(Anne.)" "(Anna!" ") 'Whenever I have my period " "'I've had it three times now " "'I feel that despite all the pain and mess, I'm carrying around a sweet secret." "'Sometimes, at night," "'I have a terrible urge to... 'touch my body." "'I can't tell anyone, 'not even Margot.'" "CHURCH BELLS RING" "Sorry." "It's all yours." "'Parents are so peculiar about sex, aren't they?" "'And Margot won't tell me anything." "Shoulders back." "'It was Jacqueline who told me that babies don't come out of their mother's tummies.'" "Anna, darling..." "'She said, "Where the ingredients go in, that's where the finished product comes out"." "'Once, I tried to feel her breasts 'but she wouldn't let me.'" "Oh!" "Look how you've grown, that's three inches in this last year!" "We can't wear these skirts, Mother." "It was very kind of Bep." "They're hideous." "They're not that bad." "They look like potato sacks!" "She used up all her clothing coupons." "RAISED VOICES UPSTAIRS" "'Everything's wearing out." "'Mother's corset's snapped, things get broken and we can't replace them." "'And the Van Daans' money is running out.'" "Give that back!" "You're not selling it!" "Give that back!" "Over my dead body!" "Why can't the firm pay for us?" "It pays for the Franks!" "It's his business, you stupid cow!" "Give me that coat!" "What about his bicycle?" "No, Mother!" "What use is it to you here?" "I need it." "Oh, yes?" "Where exactly are you planning to go?" "When the war is over..." "It's never going to be over!" "We're going to be shot like rats by the Nazis, blown to bits while we're locked up here like lepers." "Shut up!" "Why didn't you get us out before it was too late?" "We could've gone to America." "Shut up!" "What are you grinning at?" "I'm not." "Staring at us, sniggering at us." "I'm not!" "Why can't you stay in your own bloody room?" "'She's just a fat, red-faced fishwife." "'Added to that she's exceedingly pushy, egotistical, cunning, 'calculating, manipulative, grasping, vain and coquettish." "'Oh!" "If only I could dump her in a bucket of water and put her in the coal shed!" "'" "Aren't parents AWFUL?" "Don't you mind it when they're horrible to you?" "I probably deserve it." "No, you don't!" "You should stand up to them." "They've always been like this." "You're too nice, that's your problem." "until recently." "I'm sorry I teased you." "It's all right." "When I called you a dimwit..." "You're not." "You just take your time." "I think that underneath it, you're a really deep thinker." "Trouble is, I babble away and then I could hit myself afterwards." "Nobody really understands me, but then I don't really understand myself." "I feel so lonely sometimes." "You?" "Haven't you noticed?" "Most of these potatoes are..." "My parents are just as bad." "They treat me like a baby." "Even Father does, and I love him to bits." "And he's always siding with Margot." "Everybody loves Margot." "Well, of course, I do, too." "She's so beautiful, isn't she?" "Don't you think?" "I hadn't really thought about it." "That true?" "Next time you go to get the potatoes, can I come too?" "Down to the warehouse?" "Won't you be scared?" "Not with you." "I need a bra now." "I don't think so." "Can I have one of yours?" "I've only got two." "You said they've got too small." "But I haven't got anything else." "Please!" "OK." "Really?" "Mm." "You like Peter, don't you?" "Mm." "Of course." "How much do you like him?" "Well, more than you do, that's for sure." "I wish you wouldn't snap at him, Anne." "I know he's not very bright, but he does have feelings." "You all right?" "'For months now, I haven't been allowed down here." "'Father says it's got too dangerous.'" "Anne?" "close to the outside world.'" "You're so brave, coming down here." "It's my job." "And I have to bolt the doors each night and unbolt them again every morning." "'Sometimes, when it's quiet," "'I can hear the warehousemen laughing.'" "They used to be my friends." "They used to give me sweets." "Mouschi." "Mouschi!" "CAT MIAOWS" "He always follows me down." "He loves you, that's why." "VEHICLE STOPS OUTSIDE" "Go!" "VOICES OUTSIDE" "CHURCH BELLS RING" "'Peter and I have been coming to the attic more and more, lately." "'I think I'm falling in love with him, but I don't know if he feels the same way about me." "'He's so shy.'" "BELLS RING" "I think they're playing just for us, don't you?" "Sometimes I feel like a bird whose wings have been ripped off." "I want to dance and whistle, I want to look at the world and feel young and free and not worry whether or not I'm Jewish." "I just want to have some fun!" "Everyone's always getting at me." "If I talk, I'm showing off." "If I don't talk I'm rude, if I'm tired, I'm lazy." "Grown-ups are always like that." "We're going to be different, aren't we?" "I want to move to the East Indies and live on a rubber plantation." "I'm going to be a dancer or famous movie star, I can't decide which." "EXPLOSION" "SECOND EXPLOSION" "It's all right, we've got a chaperone." "MOUSCHI MIAOWS" "Have you two got my cushion?" "I'm sorry, Mr Dussel, it was the only one we could find." "It'll be covered in fleas." "The cat didn't sit on it." "Can I have nothing to myself in this place?" "What a fusspot!" "Let's give him a real surprise." "What?" "Come on!" "Get something!" "No, silly!" "He'll see." "THEY GIGGLE" "What are you two laughing about?" "Anne?" "'I'm doing my best not to chase after him all the time, and to talk to him as little as possible, 'but it's not easy.'" "GLASS BREAKS" "(What was that?" ")" "Sshhh!" "Oh, no!" "Oh, no!" "Putti!" "FOOTSTEPS APPROACH" "What's happened?" "The front door was still bolted this morning." "I had to break a window to get in." "You stupid idiot!" "Now the air-raid warden'll think there's been a burglary and call the police." "The police?" "Sshh!" "You're getting very careless nowadays." "One little job, and you can't even bloody do that!" "'Poor Peter, it gets worse and worse." "'Mouschi's disappeared." "'No-one's seen him since yesterday.'" "It's not your fault." "I'm useless, I'm stupid, I'm no good at anything." "That's not true." "You're quite good at geography." "And now I've lost my cat!" "You've got me." "Have you ever... kissed anybody?" "No." "No-one?" "Well, only Mother and..." "I mean, a girl." "'It's so crazy." "'I'm half mad with desire for him, and yet... '.." "I don't know." "'Is he the right one?" "'I don't know.'" "SOBBING" "Off to the attic again?" "Oh, I'm just lending Peter The Forsythe Saga." "Getting a lot of reading done up there, are you?" "(Haven't you noticed?" ")" "RADIO: 'This is the BBC Home and Forces Programme." "'Here is the news, some of the best news of the war so far." "'John Snagg will read it to you." "'The Italian armed forces have surrendered unconditionally and an armistice has been granted.'" "Where's Anne and Peter?" "They should be hearing this." "'This news has been given by General Eisenhower in a broadcast from Algiers at 5.30 this afternoon...'" "So I'm not Miss Quack Quack any more?" "I'm sorry I teased you." "You thought I was a little pest, didn't you?" "I used to be the class clown, but I'm a different Anne now." "I like it when you smile." "Why?" "Because you've got dimples on your cheeks." "I was born with them." "It's the only mark of beauty I possess." "What?" "That's not true!" "I know I'm not beautiful." "I never have been and I never shall be." "I think you're very pretty." "You're my El Dorado." "That's a place, silly!" "You can't call a person that." "Only joking." "PLANE FLIES OVERHEAD" "Goodnight, my dear." "Goodnight, Mother." "Please be careful, my love." "About what?" "Peter's a very sensitive child." "And I'm not?" "I just mean, he is rather young for his age." "In many ways, rather younger than you." "And he hasn't had your...advantages." "You know..." "You know you can be rather demanding." "Demanding?" "Well...enthusiastic." "I mean you pick things up and then you suddenly get bored of them." "Is that all you can say, Mother?" "Can't you be happy for me?" "Of course I am!" "I just... don't want him to be hurt." "You can be rather hurtful, you know." "Seems like you care more about his feelings than mine." "That's not true." "I want you to be happy, more than anything in the world." "Doesn't sound like it." "I just don't want you to grow up too fast." "Girls do nowadays." "Haven't you noticed?" "We're not going to be the same as you." "We're going to live our own lives, travel and have careers and..." "EXPLOSION" "..And we're going to make a better job of it than you grown-ups did." "EXPLOSION AND GUNFIRE" "ANOTHER EXPLOSION" "Do you want to come into our room?" "I'm all right." "Really?" "Night night." "Margot?" "Tell me honestly, do you mind?" "Of course not!" "I mean, you're nearer his age." "I've never thought of him like that." "I just wish you'd told me." "We used to tell each other everything." "You could always come and join us up in the attic." "What?" "You'd be very welcome." "Don't be silly!" "Night, Anne." "I wish I could get away from our parents." "Do you think they've got bases on the coast?" "They must do." "I suppose sometimes they must put petrol in and think it's full." "'It's getting cold up here." "'And so boring." "'We've been shut up together so long that everyone knows what 'everyone else is going to say, the punch line of every joke, the end of every story." "'We're driving each other crazy.'" "That is the stupidest comment I've ever heard." "Why aren't the British carrying out any bombing raids today?" "Because the weather's bad." "But it was nice yesterday and they weren't flying then, either." "Oh, shut up!" "Can't a person talk?" "Not in your case." "Mr Frank always answers HIS wife." "She doesn't talk such rubbish." "I'm only trying to make conversation." "And when she DOES talk, it's usually something pleasant or useful." "Miep!" "'Every day our helpers arrive, with the wind on their clothes 'and the fresh air on their cheeks, bringing us our freedom." "'On Saturday, Miep's laden like a pack mule with our library books." "'Food comes in cycles." "'Just now it's cabbage." "Cabbage with sand, cabbage without sand, 'cabbage with mashed potatoes, cabbage and mashed potato casserole." "'But I don't mind." "'All I think about is when I can be alone again with Peter.'" "OTTO:" "Anna?" "Annelies, dear, you're getting very behind in your studies." "You don't want to find yourself in the lower class when you go back to school, do you?" "No." "What is our motto?" "Work and hope." "Your mother and I... are getting a little concerned about you." "She doesn't understand!" "Shh!" "Why can't you be nicer to her?" "You make her very unhappy, you know." "Do you... love this boy?" "Do you think it's wrong?" "No." "No." "But when you're living so close together, as we do, you have to be careful." "Outside, things are quite different." "You can see other girls and boys, you can take part in sports and other activities." "But here, we're together every moment of the day, if you want to get away from someone, you can't." "Things... ..can get rather... out of hand." "Time for your French." "'I've been thinking a lot about marriage lately." "'Take my parents." "'Their relationship is supposed to be ideal - 'no cross words, perfect agreement." "'But Father's not in love with Mother the way she's in love with him." "'He kisses her the way he kisses us." "'I'm not going to have a marriage like that." ""Dear Pim, if only you knew how unhappy and lonely I've been" ""this last year and a half, with everybody criticising me for everything I do..."" "Somebody's tried to assassinate Hitler." "Come and listen to the wireless!" "In a moment." ""Nobody, not even you, understands how I'm growing up." ""I need to be free and now, after a long struggle, the battle's over." ""I don't need you, or my mother, any more." ""I don't want to live by your example." ""I'm an independent person and I'll behave the way I want to." ""Nothing will keep me from going up to the attic." ""You'll either have to forbid it, or trust me." ""I'm not your little girl any more, so please leave me alone!"" "Dinner's ready." "What's the matter, dear?" "I'm just... ..reading about Pip's death." "What, again?" "I've received many letters in my lifetime." "But none as hurtful as this." "You've had so much love from us." "We've been always on your side, however impossible you've been." "All this time," "I've encouraged you to be a writer, so that... you can write me this?" "I can't help it!" "I have to write what I feel!" "Otto!" "What's that?" "They've come for us!" "Ssh!" "Otto..." "(What is it?" ") Shh." "What are you doing?" "Quickly, upstairs." "Shh." "I think it's burglars." "They'll tell the police!" "You think thieves would give us away?" "Yes." "I'm going down." "No, Pim, don't...!" "It's all right, they've gone." "I need to check the front door." "Stay here and keep quiet." "Let me come, too." "'Outside, things have got worse." "'Everyone's hungry." "'A week's food ration doesn't last two days." "'Little children steal whatever they can lay their hands on." "'Shops are ransacked, the Dutch have turned into a nation of robbers.'" "I have to go to the toilet." "So have I. You can't!" "Do you want me to do it on the floor?" "Ssh!" "They're still here." "Into the bedroom, quickly." "I have to go!" "No!" "No, no!" "'We didn't dare move upstairs." "'Every time we thought they'd gone, another sound made us shake with fear and hold our breath once more." "'I don't know how long we sat there because the Westerkerk bells have stopped." "'I think they've been melted down for the war.'" "(I'm sorry.)" "They didn't find anything worth stealing in the warehouse." "So they forced their way into the offices." "What did they take?" "Cash boxes, the blank cheque books, two typewriters and all the sugar coupons." "I just feel so helpless up here!" "You must have left the light on again." "We did not!" "You MUST be more careful!" "At least the police didn't come up here." "I wish they would." "What?" "Well, at least we'd be put out of our misery!" "I can't stand this much longer!" "I can't just sit here all day!" "I can't breathe!" "'We've had to tighten up security." "'During the week, Father and the other men can't go downstairs any more, to work in the back office." "'We have to keep the windows shut, though it's stifling hot.'" "I think you should take two of these today." "What?" "Your valerian tablets." "You just have to remember all the suffering in the world." "Oh, for goodness SAKE!" "Don't snap at your mother, she's only trying to help." "And she's right." "At least we're not in Poland." "Do you know what's happening to the Jews in Poland?" "Mr Dussel, please!" "Of course I know!" "I listen to the radio too." "They're being poisoned, by gas." "What have we done wrong?" "Why does everyone hate us?" "Why is it that there's one law for Christians and another one for us?" "It's like, if they do something wrong, then it's just what they do, but if you or I do something, it somehow reflects on all Jews." "Isn't that crazy?" "Your hair looks nice today." "You're not listening!" "'The food situation is getting worse." "'Come to the annexe if you want to get slim!" "'" "Do eat something, Anne." "'We've had pickled kale for six days running now." "'You wouldn't believe how it stinks!" "'Toilets and bad plums and rotten eggs." "Dearest Bep, would you get me some nail varnish?" "How can you be so petty?" "There is nothing petty about nail varnish!" "Ah, Mr Kugler." "I have some bad news, I'm afraid." "'The authorities are confiscating all the radios." "'Our beloved lifeline, with its wondrous voice, has gone." "'No bells chiming, no friendly BBC." "'We sit here, waiting for the Allies to come to our rescue, 'but all we get are bombs.'" "'I've taken to running up and down the stairs to drown out the noise." "'Sometimes that does the trick.'" "What have you got there?" "My escape bag." "Where would you go?" "'But I mustn't give in to despair." "'Today is Mother's birthday 'and Miep has managed to find some butter and bake a cake!" "'" "Oh!" "Happy birthday." "Happy birthday, Mother." "Putti..." "She's given Mr Van Daan the biggest slice!" "As usual." "Thank you, dearest Miep." "'How noble and brave our helpers are!" "'Always cheerful, never a complaint about the burden we must be to them." "'They've pulled us through up to now 'and we hope they will bring us safely to dry land.'" "Miep, tell us about your cousin's wedding again." "Well, first we had vegetable soup with meatballs, then hors d'oeuvres made with eggs and roast beef." "Ohhh!" "Mmm..." "Go on..." "Go on." "Cheese rolls, gateau..." "Oh, what sort of gateau?" "Plum." "Oh!" "And wine?" "And cigarettes." "I drank three glasses of schnapps." "Oh-ooh!" "And coffee, real coffee." "And chocolates?" "Cream?" "A little bit." "'Cake's not normally on the menu these days." "'Our latest delicacy is piccalilli." "'If you're out of luck, all you get is a jar of cucumber and mustard sauce.'" "Oh, Mr Frank, I've brought you this." "My wife had it hidden amongst her clothes." "Thank you so much!" "Don't tell Mr Kugler." "No, no." "Well, what's a secret radio when there's already secret money and secret Jews?" "I have some other news." "Tomorrow I go into hospital for an operation on my stomach." "Oh, Johannes." "I'm so sorry." "That's all right." "I'll be back in a week." "'But he wasn't." "After his operation he was sent home." "'He was in so much pain, he couldn't come back to work.'" "And thank you." "'Poor Mr Kleiman." "'Father's dearest friend, our ray of sunshine.'" "'History cannot be written on the basis of official decisions and documents alone." "'If our descendants are to understand fully 'what we as a nation have had to endure, 'then what we really need are ordinary documents, letters and diaries." "'Not until we have succeeded in bringing together vast quantities of this simple, everyday material, 'will the picture of our struggle for freedom be painted in its full depth and glory.'" "He's talking to you, my love." "But who'd want to listen to my drivel?" "It's not drivel, dear." "Have you been reading it?" "Of course not." "I wish I could lock it up." "I've just heard what you've read out to us." "And your short stories." "We all love them." "I wish I could write like that." "You?" "!" "But...you're so clever!" "Anna." "You could...keep it in there." "Thanks." "'I know I can write, I'm sure I can." "'After all, I'm my own harshest critic." "'I know what's good and what isn't." "'Unless you write yourself, you don't know how wonderful it is!" "'When I write, all my sadness disappears." "'But - and it's a big but - 'will I ever be able to write something great?" "'" "How long has this been going on?" "It's just a headache." "Why didn't you tell me?" "Because I knew you'd make a fuss!" "The light here is so bad." "I think you need to have your eyes tested." "How on earth is she going to do that?" "Have you heard the one about the elephant and the pair of spectacles?" "Yes!" ".." "Mr Van Daan." "'This is the BBC Home Service." "Here is a special bulletin read by John Snagg." "'D-Day has come." "'Early this morning, the Allies began the assault 'on the north-western face of Hitler's European fortress." "'The first official news came just after half past nine...' It's started." "'Supreme Headquarters Of The Allied Expeditionary Force, 'usually called "SHAEF" from its initials, 'issued communique number one." "This said...' Dear God, we're saved!" "'Those awful Germans have oppressed us and threatened us for so long, 'that the thought of friends and salvation means everything to us." "'I've often been down in the dumps, but never desperate." "'I look upon our life in hiding as an interesting adventure, full of danger and romance, 'and every privation as an amusing addition to my diary.'" "Hello?" "'Peter's beginning to lean on me though." "And I don't want that." "'Now that I know what I want to be, there's no time for anything else." "'It's hard enough standing on your own two feet, 'but when you also have to stay true to yourself, it's harder still.'" "Where are the potatoes?" "'Every day I feel myself maturing, I feel liberation drawing near." "'I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me.'" "What is it?" "Sorry..." "No, come in." "Anne." "It's just..." "Peter's been looking rather woebegone lately." "Hm. (Peter.)" "Don't you like him any more?" "Of course I do, he's a sweet boy." "But...?" "I'm nearly on the last page." "What?" "Have you got any more paper?" "Anne..." "I haven't got much time, don't you see?" "I have to DO this!" "I don't want to be a movie star any more, Margot, I want to be a writer!" "He doesn't understand me." "He doesn't really understand me at all." "I'm going to have a different life to most girls." "I don't want to be like Mother or all those other women, who have a family and then they're forgotten." "I don't want to have lived in vain like most people." "I want to go on living, even after my death." "I want to train as a midwife and go to Palestine." "You never told me." "You never asked." "I get annoyed with our parents too, you know." "You?" "!" "But..." "But you're the good one." "I have to be, don't I?" "What?" "You've no idea, have you?" "About what?" "It's not easy trying to keep the peace." "Somebody's got to do it and it has to be me." "You force me to do it." "Force you?" "!" "I'm just your little sister." "You..." "I can't..." "I can't describe it." "You..." "You suck up the oxygen." "I'm trying to live!" "This is all we have!" "This annexe?" "This life." "I wish I could be like you." "'I can see five silver bombers going back now at terrific speed, 'after doing their little part of the job, 'dropping their load of bombs on some German gun position or fortification." "'They're certainly giving those gun positions everything possible.'" "'The invasion's still going splendidly, despite the miserable weather." "'Here in the annexe, we continue to believe that any day now we might finally be free.'" "Know the first thing I'm going to do?" "What?" "Eat a slice of chocolate cake with whipped cream." "Mmmm!" "How about you, Mr Frank?" "I shall visit Mr Kleiman." "Oh, really?" "Of course he would!" "Don't you know my husband by now?" "What about you, Mother?" "I would... have a cup of real coffee." "Oh, coffee." "Ohhh!" "I'm gonna..." "I'm going to have a hot bath, full to the brim." "Me too." "And I'm going to lie in it for hours." "What'll you do, Peter?" "I don't know." "I want to just wander about the streets, I suppose." "We all know what you're going to do, Mr Dussel...!" "'They've dropped a bomb in the next street." "'We're terrified this building will go up in flames 'and we'll be burnt alive before the Allies rescue us.'" "Father's checking the fire extinguishers." "It's all so crazy, this war!" "Why are they making bigger bombs when people are starving?" "Why can't we live together peacefully?" "!" "You can talk." "What do you mean?" "You haven't exactly been very nice to me." "I'm sorry, Peter..." "Don't you think of anybody but yourself?" "I wish I had hands like yours." "They're the hands of a lady." "Are they?" "Mmm." "'Cherbourg has fallen." "'The big Atlantic sea force at the tip of the Normandy peninsula 'is completely in American hands...'" "They'll be here by October." "We have Mr Churchill's word for it." "We'll have to look our best for him, won't we, Mrs Frank?" "'But still they haven't come." "The waiting is killing us.'" "Anne!" "Anna!" "What?" "'Mr Kugler managed to get hold of eight crates of strawberries at the produce auction.'" "'All hands on deck!" "'We're making them into jam for the office, but a lot of them are going into our mouths.'" "Before the Allies arrive, the Germans are going to flood the country." "Well, that's what they're saying in the papers." "Well, we shall just have to swim." "We'll put on our bathing suits and swim underwater so they can't see we're Jews." "Oh, yes?" "I can just see the ladies doing that with the rats biting their legs." "Putti!" "I'll be all right, I'll walk on stilts." "Stilts!" "?" "I was a champion stilt walker when I was young." "Were you?" "I'll find a rowing boat and row us all to safety." "Oh, will you?" "Mmm." "'Bep's got me some more paper, but I can hardly write on it, it's so thin and grey." "'Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old." "'It's hard for us in this mad world.'" "'How can we hold onto our opinions when ideals are being shattered and destroyed?" "'When everyone's come to doubt truth, justice and God?" "'" "'I see the world being transformed into a wilderness." "'I hear the approaching thunder, I feel the suffering of millions.'" "'And yet..." "I somehow feel that everything will change for the better." "'That, in spite of everything, people are good at heart.'" "I couldn't warn you." "I'm so sorry, Mr Frank." "Raise your hands." "Hands up!" "There's another one in here." "A kid." "Come on, move!" "Upstairs!" "Come here, darling." "Raise your hands!" "Eight of them." "Who'd believe it?" "How long have you been hiding here?" "Two years." "You have five minutes to pack a bag." "Thank you, Mr Dussel." "Are you ready, my dear?" "Up, up." "Peter." "Come on!" "Come on, let's go." "Peace in God."