Name: Lee Hooper
June 15, 2003 07:54 PM | Location:
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I never read the diary but heard of it as a child. I have been deeply touched by what I have seen on your website. I was actually thinking earlier today about all the lost potential that occurred during the holocaust. I am horrified by the ugliness and callousness but also curious about the loss of potential. How many of those poor Jewish people may have been a great boon to mankind. Always in a number of people that numerous there are some who have potential to be exeptional. I do not minimize the horrors inflicted upon the ordinary, that too is heart-wrenching to say the least.
Anyway, at this point in my life (age 47) I find it nearly unbelievable that the holocaust even happened, in so-called modern times! |
Name: Andrea Freeman
June 15, 2003 03:27 PM | Location:
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I read the Diary of Anne Frank for the first time at approximately age eleven. At the time of the first reading I did not know enough about the Holocaust to understand the true horror that Anne and her family were living out. I have re-read the book periodically through the years, seen the movie and more recently seen the revival of the play on Broadway with Natalie Portman. That was shortly after returning from Amsterdam where I visisted the Anne Frank House and the Holocaust Museum. I had certainly heard and read about the Holocaust through the years but nothing that I knew prepared me for the powerful and emotional moment of walking up the stairs to the Secret Annex and reading the excerpts from Anne's diary. Rereading Anne's words on your web site have brought back those emotions. There is no other story I have ever read that has moved me in such a way, no matter what the stage of my life. While you have done a wonderful thing by bringing Anne's words to this country for others to read and share, there is nothing like standing in the rooms where Anne lived; you can almost hear her speaking aloud as she writes in her dear Kitty. |
Name: kathy landrith
June 15, 2003 11:00 AM | Location:
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i enjoyed the display of anne's pictures and writings. |
Name: Ashley
June 13, 2003 03:00 PM | Location:
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I think you should put more info on the family of Anne Frank. Other than that it gave me every thing i needed to find out about Anne frank.
Thanks you
Always and forever
Ashley |
Name: Marcia Lurensky
June 13, 2003 02:09 PM | Location:
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I first read the diary of Anne Frank when aged 12-13. It was an experience of reading the thoughts of another young Jewish girl. My first reading of the diary was an occasion of meeting a girl through her writings - having a sense of kinship with the writer, knowing of her tragic end in the madness of the Holocaust. It was also a reminder to cherish and embrace the freedom and rights so often taken for granted.
Because of the Holocaust Museum's exhibition and website, I have re-read Anne's diary, for the first time in twenty years. Because of the Museum's exhibition of Anne Frank's writings, I have come to view her as a writer apart from her diary, not only as a gifted teenager who represents the child victims of the holocaust. Anne Frank's voice was stilled by the Nazis; her writings live as a legacy of the promise unfulfilled. By acknowledging her writings and making them known to the world, Anne's voice has been allowed to be heard again.
Anne Frank was one of many millions of victims of the Holocaust. Each had a voice that should have been allowed to be heard throughout their natural spans of life. Anne Frank represents not only all of the child victims, but all the victims.
My thanks to the Holocaust Museum for arranging for the United States to exhibit Anne Frank's work and for honoring the voices and memories of all the victims of the Holocaust. |
