Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson claims that those hiding in the annex used electric lights and candles that would have been seen in the courtyard. This courtyard is surrounded by a block of houses, the backs of which share this common space.
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There are, however, windows in the annex that look out onto a courtyard area. From the street and canal, there is, however, no visible indication of a separate back portion to the house, where the annex was located. This warehouse extended from the very front to the back of the entire building. Where the annex was located, in 263 Prinsengracht, was really two separate houses sharing a common warehouse space. Anne writes about how they often felt like they would be caught. We were used to keeping our mouths shut because periodically we also had somebody in hiding at our house.” This situation, like others Anne writes about, shook the Franks and their friends to the core. I therefore understood immediately that there were people in the building and thought: ‘Let’s get out of here!’ We didn’t say anything about this. The pipe ran down the back just like in our house. While in the warehouse, one of them later noted: “I suddenly heard the toilet being flushed. On one occasion, two neighborhood youngsters, who knew the warehouse had valuables, broke into the building.
On ordinary days we have to speak in a whisper not being able to talk or move at all is ten times worse.” (October 1, 1942)ĭespite their best efforts, the Frank family and their friends did have several close calls. Anne wrote how much she disliked “having to sit all day and not say a word. They made no deliberate noise until one of their protectors gave them a signal that the building was officially empty. to 6:00 p.m., when the business downstairs was open. They strove to be utterly silent from 8:00 a.m. The Franks and their friends did fear that people in the office or in the buildings adjoining 263 Prinsengracht would hear them and, therefore, they took precautions. As Anne’s diary states, the “whole gang breathes a sigh of relief” because the warehousemen “have gone home for lunch.” van Daan only started vacuuming during the office workers’ lunch hour. Faurisson’s reading, however, purposefully ignores the fact that Mrs. In his view, this activity would have easily gotten them caught.
van Daan used a vacuum cleaner at 12:30 in the afternoon. As an example, he notes that on August 5, 1943, Mrs. Faurisson, for instance, listed every small noise that Anne mentions in her diary. When Holocaust deniers, like Faurisson, claim that those in the annex would have been heard by neighbors and office workers, they actually use Anne’s diary as a main source. The facts about life in the Secret Annex: Noises:
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