Anne Frank
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Despite the dire circumstances she was living through, Anne Frank did not give up hope. It should be a lesson for all of us. The following are some (of her) words of hope—she was wise beyond her years. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”…
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Brigitte Eicke was a German girl who also kept a diary during the war, but her life was vastly different from Anne’s. As a member of the Nazi Youth organization, her perspective reflects the indoctrinated worldview of an average German child living under the Nazi regime. Brigitte’s diary entries, unlike Anne’s, are generally more mundane,…
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Viewing images of the death and destruction wrought by the Holocaust can be deeply gut-wrenching. While it’s often said that a photograph speaks a thousand words, it’s equally valid that it can never tell the whole story. A photo captures only a single moment in time. This is one of the reasons I rarely share…
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On 3 September 1944, Anne Frank and the seven others living in hiding at the Secret Annex were put on the last transport to Auschwitz, along with over a thousand other Jewish prisoners. One of the cruellest jokes (for lack of a better word) the Nazis played was to pretend these journeys were return trips…
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On the morning of August 4, 1944, Otto Frank was helping Peter van Pels with his language lessons, while Edith Frank remained in her room. That same morning, police officers arrived at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. They proceeded to the first-floor office, where the helpers of those in hiding were working. The officers questioned Victor…
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Anne Frank and Peter van Pels’s first kiss is one of the most touching and human moments in Anne’s diary, The Diary of a Young Girl. This event unfolds during one of the most challenging periods of Anne’s life, and it provides a poignant glimpse into the emotional complexity of adolescence in the face of…
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A refugee is a person who has been forced to flee their home because of war, violence, or persecution, often without warning. They are not able to return home unless or until conditions in their native lands are safe for them again. • An asylum seeker is a person who is also seeking international protection…
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On April 15,1945 the 63rd Anti-tank Regiment and the 11th Armoured Division of the British army liberated about 60,000 prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. One of the soldiers, 21 year old Corporal Ian Forsyth, called it “A place of darkness and death.” What the British troops encountered was described by the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby,…
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REPOST FROM APRIL 25 2019-THIS IS JUST TO ILLUSTRATE HOW DELUSIONAL PEOPLE HAVE BECOME I just want to make this perfectly clear from the outset I have no issues with Greta Thunberg. I admire what she does and stands for, but I just don’t fully agree with her. Today I questioned in a Facebook…
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