Few Holocaust victims, I think, are more important, than Anne Frank. She remains the voice that communicates the terror and fear of the situation to today's youngsters. But I keep thinking about this...if she had survived, she would be in her 70s today, living in a fairly busy but reasonably peaceful and safe retirement...surrounded by grandchildren. Can anyone not think that the brutal extermination of these future generations of leaders, scientists, engineers, and just ordinary people is not the worst thing about the Holocaust?
I agree, I did not realise that Anne Frank was such a well know figure, my wife who is not by any means interested in world war 2 or the holocaust remarked to a friend a few weeks ago that she enjoyed reading the diaries of Anne Frank at school, and that was not yesterday I also see that its part of the curriculum at secondary school to this day.
I have visited the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam and it was a very interesting experience, of course it is much more than just a house now a days , it is a centre against all hatred be it either political or ethnic, i would like to mention one thing though, Anne Frank is only one child of 1.5 million children who died.
Yes, and then you need to add to that: disabled gypsies Jehovahs Gays Social Democrats Communists Partisans Trade Unionists Polish Intelligentsia And so on....
I agree, I did not realise that Anne Frank was such a well know figure, my wife who is not by any means interested in world war 2 or the holocaust remarked to a friend a few weeks ago that she enjoyed reading the diaries of Anne Frank at school, and that was not yesterday I also see that its part of the curriculum at secondary school to this day. Yes, Anne Frank has survived in spirit on a global scale. My daughter will be reading her diary soon. It astounds me, given her life, that she could still think that people are good at heart. I did not have to live in hiding, was not tossed into a concentration camp, but my life experiences have led me to believe that people are not good at heart....that the essential linking thread of humanity is our vicious sadism. We enjoy harming each other. We laugh about it. I can't forgive. Even 30 years later. But Anne Frank, at age 12, could forgive the Nazis and Hitler. She outranks me.
