For years, a black-and-white vintage video (archived) has been shared online that allegedly shows the only existing footage of German-born diarist Anne Frank.
Examples of the clip, which showed life in the Netherlands 84 years ago, have appeared on X since at least 2018, while screenshots of the video can be seen in a 2009 article by news media website Mashable.
The caption of one March 2025 X post read: "One of the only existing footage of Anne Frank, filmed in 1941."
Annemarie Bekker of Anne Frank House — a biographical museum in Amsterdam, the Dutch city where Frank lived during the German occupation of the Netherlands — confirmed via email that the video was authentic and recorded on July 22, 1941; therefore, we have rated this claim as true. Frank went into hiding a year later and died in the Holocaust.
Bekker added that Frank can be seen "leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look" at her neighbor who was getting married at the time.
"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," Bekker explained.
Anne Frank House hosts the video on its YouTube channel, where it was published on Sept. 23, 2009.
Numerous reputable news media outlets have also reported that the clip is the only known footage of the young German diarist.