The Only Existing Film Images of Anne Frank, 1941

July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film.

At the time of her wedding, the bride lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39. The Frank family lived at number 37, also on the second floor. (via the Anne Frank House's Youtube channel)

32 Breathtaking Black and White Photographs Capture Daily Life in Amsterdam During the 1950s and 1960s

During the 1950s and 1960s the photographer Leonard Freed resided and worked in Amsterdam. He photographed the daily life of the people in the city and the suburbs, recording the ordinary, everyday face of Amsterdam at a time that was so ordinary that eternity seemed to be anchored in it.

Amsterdam. 1964

Amsterdam. 1964

Amsterdam. 1966. Gotta TAJIRI talking to a man.

Zeeland. 1964. People wait for a tram outside of Centraal Station.

Amsterdam. 1964. Winter in Holland.

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Anne Frank: Her Life in Pictures, Some of Them Are Rare That You May Not Have Seen Before

Anne Frank (1929-1945) was a teen writer who went into hiding during World War Two to avoid the Nazis. She was one of over one million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. After her death, Anne becomes world famous because of her wartime diary "The Diary of a Young Girl" she wrote while in hiding.

“One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we will be people again and not just Jews! We can never be just Dutch, or just English, or whatever, we will always be Jews as well. But then, we'll want to be.” - April 9, 1944, an excerpt from "The Diary of Anne Frank."

We take a look at her life through pictures.

Anne Frank 12 years old - May 1942.

Anne Frank with three friends. Beekbergen, summer 1941. Left to right: Anne, Tineke Gatsonides, Sanne and Barbara Ledermann.

A photograph of the Frank family taken on the Merwedeplein in Amsterdam, May 1941. Left to right: Margot, Otto, Anne and Edith.

Anne Frank, 11 years old - May 1941.

Anne Frank writing at her desk in her room in the Merwedeplein apartment, Amsterdam.

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Street Scenes of Amsterdam From Between the 1900s and 1930s

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15 Fascinating Color Photographs That Capture Street Scenes of Amsterdam in 1975

Ed van der Elsken was born in Amsterdam in 1925. He lived and worked in Paris from 1950 to 1954. He moved back to Amsterdam and lived there from 1954 to 1971. He traveled a lot for his work, for instance to Bagara, Central Africa in 1957, and made a long world trip in 1959 and 1960 with Gerda van der Veen, his second wife. From 1971, he lived in the country near Edam. In this period, he often traveled to Japan and also worked in Amsterdam. In 1988 he is diagnosed with cancer. He died in 1990.

Ed van der Elsken was one of the most influential figures in postwar Dutch photography. He captured every aspect of Amsterdam from the 1950s. Working primarily with natural light, his objective was to show things as they are, without disrupting any integrity or mainstreaming his subjects. His openness to accident and the unexpected is indicative of the artist's lust for life and lends empathy to the strange and tender encounters captured.

The quixotic technique often resulted in textures ranging from hard grains to soft blurs, playing upon the pictures' surface in a manner that elevated the atmosphere beyond the confines of its factual content. The unconventional technique and the gritty snapshot-like quality of Van der Elsken's work have been of great importance in the development of contemporary photography.

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17 Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Women's Street Styles in The Netherlands in 1906

English artist Edward Linley Sambourne had a tour through Holland in April, 1906. He was with his wife Marion and maybe his daughter but as always he took photographs of women in the street. In the cities The Hague and Amsterdam he saw women dressed in the usual middle class day wear as seen in his pictures of London and Paris.

On a quieter street a group stop to talk, in a poorly composed picture (but understandable if Sambourne was using his right angle camera)

Here in The Hague a lone woman waits outside a grand building.

One of the districts of The Hague is Scheveningen, a seaside area where Sambourne found young women dressed in traditional working class costume.

One of this trio is giving him a suspicious look.

But this pair seem happy to pose for a picture with part of the pier behind them.

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