Name: Tony
July 03, 2003 08:02 PM | Location:
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You know what scares me the most? That, in 30/40 years from now, no-one can say "I've been there, I know what Anne was talking about.
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It's up to us youngers to make sure our children will read Anne's story, know at least the important facts about WW2 and all.
I'm 27, from Holland and proud father of a six-months-old son, and I know for a fact that I'll do everything I can to make sure he'll know what I know now about Anne Frank, WW2, the concentration camps, etc.
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I've seen Anne's house at 'Prinsengracht' several times, been to Mauthausen, seen plays etcetera, and I'll go numb every single time I'm getting confrontated with WW2.
<br> Like Anne said: don't try to make a difference between rich or poor, Christian or Jew and all that. Treat your fellow men/women equal and maybe, maybe the world will be a better place, even in 30 or 40 years.
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Take care.
Tony |
Name: James R. Brown
July 02, 2003 05:11 PM | Location:
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I first read Anne Frank's diary when I was 13 years old. I feel that you get to know Anne Frank when you read the diary. I myself have also been writing since I was a child and want to become a writer. My grandfather was one of the allieed soldiers who helped to liberate Bergen-Belsen and although he died when I was a baby my father told mke of some of the horrors that my grandfather saw there.
We must never forget! |
Name: Jessica V
June 26, 2003 10:44 PM | Location:
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I have read the Diary of Anne Frank many times and also seen an adaptation on stage. This story has been a large memory of my childhood (I read it multiple times) and I have always been thankful to my mother who introduced me to this story. A few years ago I was able to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau. That was the most moving experience of my life. To see the camp where many people similar to Anne Frank encountered experiences many of us would never dream of was amazing to me. I know that I still do not, and never will understand, the experiences and the horror that Anne Frank and other victims of the Holocaust experienced. But I hope and pray to God that an event such as this will never occur again. I want the rest of the world to be aware of the wonderful writings of Anne Frank and am happy to see it is being brought to the US. |
Name: Tami C.
June 24, 2003 02:46 PM | Location:
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Anne Frank has had quite an impact on my life. Not only in reading the diary, which I first came into contact with at 13, but also later as a young adult. I studied in England for a semester and found my host parents to be very anti-semetic. So much so, that I chose to leave their home rather than complete my stay with them. Ironically, the community liaisons who helped me to find another home were named Ian and Annie Frank. I knew I was going to be safe when Mrs. Frank (again, ironically from Holland) comforted me and took me in. Now, years later, I have a daughter. To honor Anne Frank's memory, we have given her the middle name Anneliese, which is Anne's full first name. I look forward to the day when I can give my daughter her own copy of the diary. |
Name: Chris Weightman
June 24, 2003 01:08 PM | Location:
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I remember reading her diary in my English class when I was 13.
I really have not thought about it since that time.
This website brought back those feelings as if it were yesterday.
Her unique views and experiences make you feel like your sitting with her as she wrote.
I'm 36 now and realizing she would have been 74 this month, I wonder if she would have ever imagined the effect her words have brought to so many people on this planet.
I would like to thank her father for sharing his daughter's personal life and thoughts.
It has changed my view of the world and humanity forever. |
Name: Sherri Dahl
June 20, 2003 09:48 PM | Location:
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I first read Anne's diary at about 15. I had been keeping diaries since about age 10 and related to Anne on her need to write and many other levels. I never lost my fascination with Anne as I grew older. I visited traveling exhibits and the Museum of Tolerance. I read everything I could get my hands on. However, while I consider myself a writer at heart, I am also very visual person. At 21 I went to Europe and made sure to stop in Amsterdam to see the Anne Frank House. Walking through the swinging bookcase into her world is something I will never forget. Standing in those rooms brought it all into my heart in a different way. A later visit to a concentration camp, Mauthausen, left me speechless. Although Anne died elsewhere, she might as well have been there for me. The experience is devastating. Thankfully we have Anne's words to remind us all that this horrific failing of humans does in fact have names, faces, and voices. Millions of them. |
Name: Alyssa E.
June 19, 2003 08:12 PM | Location:
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I read the Diary of Anne Frank Shortly After It aired on the Wonderful World Of Disney a few years ago.I was only 10 but I knew her story was a very detailed and very heart filled one. I'm know 12 and mostly all I read is about WW2 and the Holocust. Anne's Diary really made me think about everything I often find myself picking it up and just reading some enteries from it. It's very moving and had a very powerful effect on me personaly when I read it.I think people should read it just to see the cruelty and injusticness that can happen around the world.Even sometimes in our own "backyard".It'sa truely remarkable book. That I will continue to keep reading over the years. |
Name: Courtney Lacy
June 17, 2003 12:34 PM | Location:
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I just want to say that Anne Frank I really loved your story I am 18 years old this is my first time reading your story it really touched me inside and it was very sad to me because I sometimes feel depressed and your story helped me realize that I am not the only person that went through depression. |
Name: Gina Luisi
June 16, 2003 07:03 PM | Location:
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I read the Diary of Anne Frank for the first time when I was about 13 years old. It touched me deeply. I decided to read it again last year (at age 45) and found new meaning in it. I know that I will read it again and again and learn something new each time...about the cruelty, injustice, suffering of the times but also about the kindness, fairness and love of a young girl who was wise beyond her years. |
Name: Ricardo Alvarez
June 16, 2003 02:41 AM | Location:
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Until an hour ago, I had never read any essays or documents written by Anne Frank. Honestly? Part of me wishes I hadn't investigated the history of this young woman, because in the end, the terrible culmination of a beautiful life in a manner so depraved left me feeling that as a species we had failed. At a conscious level, I know that this story is one that occurred many times during the Holocaust, and even now, almost 60 years since the end of WWII we know that children full of life, potential and dreams have these things stolen from them. My english is not good enough to describe the pain I felt as I realised that this story wasn't going to end in Hollywood film style with the family being saved, and Anne Frank having a long and fulfilling life. Sometimes life just sucks. |
