The Diary of Anne Frank

Season

2009

7.5

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Amsterdam 6th July 1942

Anne is given a diary for her 13th birthday. Anne's parents Otto and Edith decide to go into hiding from the Nazis after call up papers arrive for her sister Margot.

S1 • E2

October 1942

Anne finds living in the same complex in hiding with the Van Daan family harder and harder. When Mr Dussell comes to live at the complex, he soon becomes the butt of all of Anne's jokes.

S1 • E3

November 1942

Otto discovers that the building in which everyone is hiding has been sold. Everyone hopes that the war will be over in a few months as the lease to the building won't be exchanged until then. Mr Dussell misses his fiancée.

S1 • E4

June 1943

As Anne matures, she begins to develop feelings towards Peter and flirts with him. After Otto tells her not to get too involved, Anne and Peter end up declaring their love for each other.

S1 • E5

May 1944

When Anne's family find out the Dutch government want diaries telling of wartime experiences, Anne is encouraged to submit hers. Determined to be a professional writer, Anne finds herself with no time to spend with Peter. Everybody looks forward to the end of the war and Peter and Anne decide to just be friends. As Anne is writing an entry into her diary, the Nazis show up after learning of the hiding place. Everybody is taken away to be sent to concentration camps.