Anne Frank link

angie999 · 24-07-2004, 12:06 PM

http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2

Kiwiwriter · 05-08-2005, 10:20 PM

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?

Wise1 · 25-10-2005, 01:08 AM

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.

Nick · 25-10-2005, 10:36 AM

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.

Wise1 · 26-10-2005, 08:20 PM

Yes, and then you need to add to that:

disabled
gypsies
Jehovahs
Gays
Social Democrats
Communists
Partisans
Trade Unionists
Polish Intelligentsia
And so on....

Kiwiwriter · 02-12-2005, 08:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lee Wisener

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.

Wise1 · 17-05-2006, 10:45 PM

Me too! But the young are much more forgiving than us Dinosaurs

24-07-2004, 12:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
angie999 Very Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: near Bristol, UK Posts: 1,551	http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2 __________________ Angie "History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was like to know the beginning only." C V Wedgewood

05-08-2005, 10:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,431	Anne Frank 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?

25-10-2005, 10:36 AM	#4 (permalink)
Nick Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 120	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. __________________ Nick Racanelli

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Wise1 Very Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,056	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.

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Wise1 Very Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,056	Yes, and then you need to add to that: disabled gypsies Jehovahs Gays Social Democrats Communists Partisans Trade Unionists Polish Intelligentsia And so on....

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