We are going into hiding.
When we get there, we need your help getting food and medicine.
Whatever you need.
There was a roundup last night.
German soldiers blocked off an entire neighborhood and
arrested all the Jews.
Can you help me, then?
Can you find me a place to hide?
I found a place, a hiding place.
Mr. Frank!
I thought you were in Switzerland.
Welcome to Switzerland.
There are a number of us here who disagree with
the policies of the occupiers.
We'd like you to join us.
Yes. Yes, yes.
I'd love to help.
My mom, my mother had no husband and she was poor.
She found a Dutch family who were willing to adopt me,
and I repay her by what, forgetting her?
It doesn't seem to me that you've forgotten her.
Do you know these children?
Yes.
We're their grandmother's tenants.
Their parents were arrested at the train station.
Alfred, Liddy, come here.
They'd better not be here when I come back.
You like apples? You like apples?
Where are you going? To my job.
Where's Jan going? To his job.
You can't leave us alone here.
I'm not going to leave you alone.
I'm gonna wait until your grandmother gets back
with your uncle.
What's that piece of paper for?
It's for blotting my lipstick.
Can I try your lipstick?
No, no. It's for grown-ups.
Come on. Sit down.
I don't want porridge.
Okay. Um, what about toast?
I don't like toast.
I can do a cartwheel. Wanna see?
Um. Uh, maybe later.
I do.
Oh! Oh. Um, uh.
So Frannie and Lou were arrested at the train station and taken where?
I don't know.
Who brought the kids here?
Some SS man.
He dropped them off with Miep and Jan and said they'd
better not be here when he gets back.
Liddy, sweetie, tell Uncle Max exactly what
happened at the train station.
I don't remember.
Liddy, please. This is very important.
When the men took your mum and dad, did they say
where they were going?
I can't remember. Liddy.
Alfred doesn't like his milk cold.
It's fine he needs to have something.
Oh!
Um. You have to heat it.
Please, this is important!
Did they say where they were going?
I can't remember. Liddy, try to remember!
Stop!
She doesn't remember what happened last night,
it's a blessing! Just let her forget it!
Leave her alone!
I'm sorry.
I'm, I'm sorry.
I know you're worried about Frannie and Lou,
I, I am as well.
Max, she worked at the Jewish Council.
Surely, you can speak to them?
Yes.
Uh, I can at least try and find out where they've gone.
Now do you want to see my cartwheel?
I'd love to.
Their kids are gonna have to be hidden, and they're gonna
ask us to help hide them, you do know that.
We can't, right?
Us? No, we can't do it. I wish we could.
Definitely not in the Annex.
Yeah.
And she's just our landlady.
Yeah. We barely know her.
We're already looking after loads of people.
Yes. Yes.
And taking any more will put everyone at risk.
Yeah. Exactly.
We can't save everyone.
No.
Why are you going in so early?
I've just got to pick up a few things on the way.
No, you just wanna get away from those kids.
No, they're quite sweet, actually.
Liddy follows you around like your shadow.
You're good with her, you know.
Jan Gies, don't do that.
Do what?
Start hinting about having children, saying I'm a natural.
I'm not.
I told you when we first met I don't want children.
If you think I'm gonna wake up one day and suddenly have
the urge to be a mother.
I take pity on two traumatized children that
a Nazi deposits at our door,
and suddenly you think I want kids?
Do you?
I want to get a seat on this bus.
I'll see you later.
And when they ask?
We're not hiding those kids.
We can't. We, we can't. We can't.
No. No.
Okay. I'll see you later.
Bye. Bye.
Can I help you?
No. I'm waiting for Otto Frank.
He's not here.
He will be. We have a standing meeting.
Oh.
Uh, he has nothing in his calendar.
Are you the secretary?
Call him.
Tell him Tonny Ahlers is waiting.
Mr. Frank has moved out of town.
What? Where?
Switzerland.
Give me the address.
I don't have it.
I don't believe you.
He didn't give me one, I'm sorry.
Sorry I can't be of more help. Have a good day.
You're a born criminal.
It was easier than you made it out to be.
Well, keep going.
The Resistance needs all the ID cards it can get.
Especially those without a J stamped on them.
You just saved four lives.
What?
Do you know anyone hiding children?
Children who are separated from their parents?
Our landlady has two grandkids.
Wait. The less I know, the better.
Here? Really?
All right.
We only have 15 minutes before we open.
Mrs. van Pels, a book on French cuisine?
Why? All we have here is beans.
Well, let me have my dreams.
Peter, this is for you.
And, oh, Dr. Pfeffer, I wasn't sure what you'd like,
so I got you a Hesse novel.
Oh. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Margot, I've heard this is a little bit racy,
so I'll be borrowing it afterwards, thank you very much.
Miep! Thanks.
I'll take a look at that.
Peter! Give me that!
Ooh! Kitty Foyle!
Oh, no. I'm gonna read that first.
You haven't finished your first book, Margot.
Isn't that book a little adult for Anne?
It's smut, that's what it is.
Nobody's reading this one.
Why?
Margot might be older, but I am more emotionally sophisticated.
Ah, conceited, Anne.
Mother, stop being a prude!
Why does she always contradict me?
Why would you always treat me like a child?
Sorry, this is my fault.
No, you didn't. It's constant now.
Otto, that girl has no boundaries.
To be fair, Anne has nothing but boundaries.
Auguste, why don't you tend to your child and let me
tend to my child, please, yeah?
I'm mature enough, mother. Let me read this!
Mother, just let me!
Give me that book! No!
For you to read this kind of.
Mother!
My God.
There was a man waiting for you downstairs,
uh, Tonny Ahlers?
What did you say to Mr. Ahlers?
I said you're in Switzerland.
And how did he react?
Angry, disappointed?
He wanted an address, I didn't give him anything.
Okay.
What business do you have with him?
I don't.
Well, he said you have a standing meeting.
Yes, we did, but I'm in Switzerland, so now we don't.
Thank you for the books.
♪ South of the border, down Mexico Way ♪
♪ That's where I fell in love ♪
♪ When stars above came out to play ♪
♪ And now as I wonder, my thoughts ever stray ♪
Get you something?
Lager, please.
♪ South of the border, down Mexico Way ♪
You sure you're in the right place?
Uh, I'm looking for someone named Willem Arondeus.
Thank you.
Willem?
I, uh, I heard you might be able to help me.
I know two children whose parents have been arrested,
they're only little, seven and five.
Who are you?
Um, sorry.
My name's Jan. Jan Gies.
No, I mean, who are you?
What do you do?
What good are you to me?
I'm not a social worker, okay?
If I help you, how will you help me?
Something funny?
I'm a social worker.
They're Jewish, these kids?
Yes.
Their parents were picked up at the station.
We have a problem.
Come back later.
You, social worker!
I need you.
Our company's called Opekta, we make pectin and
these spice packets.
Go ahead. Taste it.
It tastes like meat, right?
But who can get real meat these days?
This is our special spice blend, no one else makes it,
and it makes the sausage filler taste like real meat.
Delicious, right?
I'll take two, I guess.
Oh, come on.
Your wife will go through that in a week.
Unless you don't like sausage?
Okay, five.
There you go. Thank you.
You really think these tastes like real sausage?
God, no. They're horrible.
Finding anything could help these,
it's mostly ground up nutshells.
Ah, it's nice to be out,
not cooped up in the office, isn't it?
Think about that.
A little sunlight.
Moments like these make the day seem so much nicer.
And our friends don't get to have this.
Do you ever wonder who else is doing what we're doing?
It can't just be us, right?
There must be loads of us.
Dear God, I hope so.
Do you know anyone who is hiding children?
Yes, we are.
So there shouldn't be a sign out saying that we're
available to hide anyone else.
No. No, I don't.
I'm not.
Good.
Now let me enjoy my sunshine.
It's apartment 214.
A Jewish family was rounded up there this morning.
They had to leave behind some papers for us.
A packet of important papers.
The Green Police are there, a PULS moving truck
will be along any minute.
They'll empty the place.
But if the police are there now.
You're a social worker, your, your credentials
can get you into the apartment, right?
You can get the package.
They left it in a chest of drawers, middle drawer.
You need to take the package to the benches at the
south end of Beatrix Park.
You'll see someone there, you will know her when you see her,
just give the package to her.
What are you standing here for?
Okay.
Do, do this for me and I will help you with your kids.
Hurry up.
Excuse me. Is this for 214?
What do you want?
Uh, I'm here to scout the apartment for a non-Jewish family.
Can I come in?
I'll make it quick.
Uh, I would've been here an hour ago, but my bike chain broke,
and my boss is already crawling all.
Fine. Just go. And be quick.
Yeah.
Hurry up! Let's go!
The apartment's upstairs.
How many rooms are there?
It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
Come here. Come.
It's okay. Come here.
Yeah. It's okay.
Come. Come on.
It's over here.
Whoa!
Oh.
You have a match?
Yeah, yes.
Uh, there you go.
Come on. Shh.
Nightmare.
Well, not a bad day, thanks to you.
You could sell water to a fish.
You should go home. You live so close to here.
I've got this.
You're sure?
Yes. Good night, Mr. Kleiman.
See you tomorrow.
Miep! Oh.
Liddy and Alfred, hello you two.
Hello.
Uncle Max took us on an adventure today.
We walked around the whole city.
Really? You must be so tired!
Uh, They're not, but Uncle Max is.
Hey, um, take these and go feed pigeons.
Come on, Alfred, let's go.
Is it safe for them to be outside?
It's not safe for them to be inside,
it's not safe for them anywhere.
I've been trying to keep them busy all day,
but they just don't stop.
I, I don't know how Frannie does it.
It's okay.
No. It's not okay.
I went straight to the Jewish Council from Mother's.
Frannie and Lou were already transported to Westerbork.
But Westerbork is just a transit camp, so from there
they could be going anywhere.
She's so stubborn, I told her not to go to the train station.
And now...
Alfred, come on.
They look just like me and Frannie at that age.
We used to play like that.
Better than a best friend.
Do you have siblings, Miep?
Yeah. I have, I have a brother.
Uh, I have a few, but Cas and I are close.
So you know.
How do I keep her children safe for her?
Mama please!
Hello. Welcome to Amsterdam.
I'm your new papa temporary papa.
Boys, everyone, slow down, slow down.
Hermine doesn't know Dutch.
She only speaks German.
Cas, can you help?
You speak German.
Cas, what is she saying?
She says I can speak German really well,
and that she's hungry.
Well, we can fix that.
Boys, come on. Off to the kitchen.
Let's make some sandwiches.
Max, I might know a family.
They, they take, they've taken in kids before.
Really?
Well, they've taken in a kid before.
They took in me.
I'll speak to them.
Look who's here? Hey, there she is.
Hey.
What's going on? Are you joining us for dinner?
No, I can't. I don't have much time.
She's got something important she wants to talk to us about.
Oh, wait, she's pregnant.
Are you pregnant?
Please tell me you're pregnant.
I'm not pregnant.
Who's pregnant? No, no one's pregnant.
Miep. No one's pregnant.
So what did you want to say?
Oh, I'll tell you in a second.
Hello.
Hi.
Are you okay? Uh-hmm.
No German, you two.
Enough German.
Miep, what did you wanna talk about?
Oh, you like that?
You like that? Yeah?
Hi, darling. Hi, how was your day?
Thank you.
Wait, so, he likes this.
You have to be careful. I know.
No. I, I mean you have to.
I am.
Can you just not be a homosexual?
Ha.
I'm kind of not joking.
You should be.
Just until the war is over?
Just don't see anyone or be with anyone.
It's not just something that I do, Miep.
I know, I know, but people are making sacrifices
all over to stay safe.
Uh-hmm. Uh-hmm.
People are going underground,
people are going into hiding.
Can you not just hide one part of yourself?
Miep, I, I know how to hide a part of myself.
I've been doing it all my life.
You have no idea what it's like to walk around every day
with this giant secret.
And, and, and lie in the faces of people that you love every day.
So please just don't tell me how to do this.
Okay.
I'm gonna leave before I say something I shouldn't.
Are you ashamed of me?
How can you ask me that?
Because something's changed.
You're, you're being really weird.
You're distant, and you always have to go.
I miss you.
Nothing's changed. No, you're lying.
And we don't lie to each other remember?
You got this, this look where you can't look,
you're doing it now, you can't look me in the eye.
No. I'm not.
♪ I don't want to set the world on fire ♪
♪ I just want to start a flame ♪
I need to speak to you. Who is he?
Can, can we have a minute, please?
Just.
♪ In my heart, I have but one desire ♪
I heard you got it.
Papers! A packet of papers!
Why the hell didn't you tell me?
You might have hesitated, we didn't have time.
Hesitated? You damn right I hesitated.
What if I'd panicked?
What if, what if I'd left it there?
Then you'd be a monster.
And I'd be bad at reading people, which I am not.
That's great. That, that's fantastic.
Oh my God.
Sorry.
So who was the girl in the park?
Does it matter?
They're people.
Really grateful people.
I'm grateful, too.
On here is the address of a student at the
University of Amsterdam.
He's got a group that's hiding Jewish children with families
in the countryside.
Thank you. Thank you.
Miep. Miep.
They asked. I was too tired to say no.
You're home late.
Work?
Yeah.
You're up early, you're out late.
It's a busy time.
I have to tell you something.
I know we said that we weren't gonna try to hide the kids.
But I couldn't help it, and I went to my parents' house to
see if they would take them in like they did with me.
What did they say?
Well, I couldn't bring myself to do it because it
would put my parents in so much danger.
And Cas already has a target on his back.
And it would make it more dangerous for him,
and more dangerous for us.
And I really don't wanna lose my brother.
But, look at them, like,
they're just little kids and who am I to decide.
Shh. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
Why are you smiling?
I found a place for them.
Really? Yeah.
They're college students and are they taking my grandbabies?
No, no, no.
They just relocate them.
They'll take them to a nice family in the countryside.
But they said they have to go tonight.
So Miep and I will take them.
Why are you taking them?
Because you're a mess, mother,
and it has to happen quickly and quietly.
No. No.
You, you can say your goodbyes here.
And we'll make sure they get there safe and sound.
If you'll agree to it.
It's too quick, it's too sudden.
Mother, Jan and Miep have it all arranged.
We have to trust them.
Okay, good.
I'll make the arrangements.
Mrs. Stoppelman, do you have any peroxide?
Why?
We have to dye the children's hair.
Oh.
You all right? No.
What is it? Her.
You're still angry that she took that book?
I'm angry that I have a mother who is mean, and wants
me to know as little about the world as she does.
Anne, you have to stop fighting with her,
the whole neighborhood can hear you.
And move, the office is opening in half an hour.
I have to get these upstairs.
No, I'll help. I'll take them.
There you go.
Hey, if you wanna be helpful, stop fighting with your mother.
Tell her that.
Miep, this man is from the Dutch Nazi Party.
You, hello again.
Your friends here are telling me the same story
you did yesterday.
Tell me where I can find Otto Frank.
It's urgent I reach him.
We have a business partnership, and he has abandoned it.
What business partnership?
And what monthly meeting?
I've worked here for years, and I've never heard of you.
Have you?
I'm sorry, I'm just trying to understand, so, so I can help.
Well, someone must know where he is.
Like I said yesterday, I have absolutely no idea
where he's gone.
Sorry.
One of you.
All right. Give me your names.
Is that necessary?
Starting with you.
He took down all our names.
He's just trying to scare you.
We don't know what he plans to do.
He's NSB, he's a Dutch Nazi,
so you have a partnership with a Nazi.
Sir.
Mr. Frank, we can't have secrets,
especially not about things like this.
And if I'm the one downstairs, I have to be...
that's a pretty good secret.
Oh, no.
It's all right. No, thank you. Okay.
Edith doesn't know what I'm going to tell you,
certainly not the girls.
About a year ago, I was talking to a supplier
at a trade show.
I should have known better but I was talking about the war.
I told him it will end soon.
And when it does, it won't end well for the Nazis.
Oh.
Of course this man who was a collaborator,
and a good one, he wrote a letter to the Nazi party
telling them what I said.
And I would have been arrested,
if it weren't for an enterprising NSB messenger.
Tonny Ahlers.
Ahlers intercepted the letter and told me that if
I didn't pay him, he would give it to the Nazis.
So this "business partnership?"
Blackmail. Pure and simple.
Which would have fine, before, but now.
He thinks you're in Switzerland.
He heard I'm in Switzerland.
He's ignorant and venal, Miep, but he's not stupid.
He knows people are hiding.
He's like a dog sniffing around for a bone.
He won't stop.
And now they're murdering us by the thousands.
Making piles of us.
I thought we were safe.
I planned so carefully.
Furniture, supplies and food, piece by piece.
Bit by bit.
I made a paper trail all the way to Switzerland.
They were safe, Edith and the girls,
I had them in a safe place.
One sentence and then, I don't even remember saying
and I failed them.
Okay. No. Stop.
Sorry, I can't listen to this.
So you couldn't keep your mouth shut once?
I'm the Crown Princess of not being able to keep her mouth shut.
This is not your fault.
It's different. No.
When your family were in trouble, you moved heaven and
earth for them, you moved them across Europe.
You built them a fortress.
No one in the world has kept his children safer than you have.
Mr. Frank, you are the finest father I've ever met.
And don't worry about Tonny Ahlers.
He's nothing.
We'll scrape him off our shoe.
These two.
Oh, she is 13.
Yeah, It's true.
It's natural.
She's growing apart from her mother,
which makes Edith hold her more tightly and Anne...
Fights her harder.
Tooth and nail.
Most families, they would just make little space for each other.
But for us it's impossible.
Another problem I didn't foresee.
You'll understand when you have a daughter.
Mama, please!
I look silly! Jan, look at my hair.
All right. Come. No, I don't want it!
Oh, come on. I don't want it.
Alfred did it. You can't make me.
And he's a baby. I won't.
And he's a boy. No. Please no.
Don't worry, it will grow back.
No. Where are we going?
Why can't we stay with you?
All right.
I'm going to tell you something.
When I was a little girl, I went on a train,
all by myself and I had no idea where I was going.
And I was, I was really, really scared just like you are.
Why did they send you away?
Because my mother had no choice.
I wasn't very well and I was in trouble,
and I needed help or I was going to die.
Are we in trouble?
Yes.
Where did you go?
Oh, well, I went to a family who could take care of me
and give the help I needed.
And they did.
And then you went home?
No, actually.
I loved it so much that I stayed and it became my new home.
You loved it?
I loved it. It was really fun.
And you know when I did that I was all on my own,
but you have Alfred.
You have your brother and as long as you have your brother,
you'll be okay.
You'll be safe.
All right? Okay.
In you go. Brave girl.
All right. Let's do it.
You okay?
Ready?
Okay.
Be brave.
Now, children.
Listen to me.
I've got something very important to say.
It doesn't matter what color your hair is,
or what name people call you.
You are you mother's children and you are your father's children.
You are my grandchildren always.
Now, where you're going, you might be asked to do things
that we've said you must never do.
To steal or lie or to eat foods that are not kosher.
And you're good children you will say, "Oma said no!"
But the most important commandment in Judaism
is to preserve life.
You have to live and you must do what you must.
And Oma will understand.
And Oma will always love you.
Always.
Yes, Oma.
Who arranged all of this?
I don't know. Some people knew some people.
If you just stay here.
We're going in the car?
We're going in a car? How?
This is what they said to do!
In you get.
Wait, who is "they?" Quick, quick.
We're here.
We're early.
They're finally asleep.
Where are they taking them?
I don't know. Jan what?
Some "people" are taking them to "I don't know?"
Who are they?
Where are they going, what if Liddy needs something?
How are we going to get them back?
We don't get to know.
What? Why?
Because if one day we get caught,
and they put a gun to your head and say to me,
"Tell us where the Jews are or we'll kill your wife,"
I won't be able to tell them.
Because I won't know.
Why is the gun to my head, not yours?
Why aren't they asking me where the Jews are?
Because you're prettier. That's why.
Oh, yes.
Something's out there.
Alfred, Liddy, wake up.
Okay. This is it.
Come on, Alfred. Come on, come on.
What are their names?
This is Liddy and this is Alfred.
Hi, Liddy. Hi, Alfred.
So what do we do?
Just wait a minute.
Go. Go.
Stop. It's okay. She's with us.
I'm gonna take the boy and she's going to take the girl.
No, you know they're going together.
You said they wouldn't be separated.
Oh, I didn't know.
No family is taking on two kids and it's a
dead giveaway to the Nazis.
They have to stay together.
She needs her brother.
No. We have to split them up.
No. Never mind then.
I'll take them. Come on children.
This is no good, let's go.
No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Please wait. Wait.
Miep, this is how it has to be.
You know it is.
This is their chance.
This is their only chance, okay?
Okay. Okay.
Come on. Come on.
This is Alfred.
This is Liddy.
Liddy, Alfred, come here.
Listen to me.
You're going to a good place, both of you.
Both of you are. You'll be safe.
You'll be okay. You'll both be okay.
Like you. Yes. Yes.
Like me.
Come.
Okay.
Off you go. Off you go.
Anne, good morning.
What's wrong?
Oh, nothing. Nothing.
It's almost time to wake up and I needed to talk to you.
Anne...
Please try to see your mother a little differently.
Try to think about not what she does, but why.
She just wants to keep you alive and safe.
And that might mean keeping you her little girl,
for a bit longer,
but she loves you so much.
More than you could know.
Okay.
♪ I don't want to set the world on fire ♪
♪ I just want to start ♪
♪ A flame in your heart
♪ In my heart ♪
♪ I have but one desire
♪ And that one is you ♪
♪ No other will do
♪ I've lost all ambition for worldly acclaim ♪
♪ I just want to be the one you love ♪
♪ And with your admission ♪
♪ That you feel the same ♪
♪ I'll have reached the goal I'm dreaming of believe me ♪
♪ I don't want to set the world on fire ♪