Ann Frank...Her Life...Her Memory...If she were writing TODAY...what would she say?

[KoKo]

As a WWII Rememberer.......I look to the PAST to SEE THE FUTURE...HISTORY!

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[CoffeeCat]

1. I think she would tell Americans...

...that the same clouds that came rolling in on Germany before the war, are
currently sitting above the United States.

We're truly at a crossroads in this country. It could go either way, depending
on the number of people who dare to be heroes.

It's too bad Ann Frank never knew how iconic she became, and that her diary
put a "voice" and "face" on the Holocaust. She helped people to understand.
You can talk about six million Jews being murdered and people just can't
comprehend the horrors until you hear one story that pierces your heart and
makes you completely understand.

Ann Frank was/is that story.

[kimmerspixelated]

8. She so wanted to be a writer.

And she actually accomplished that goal, sad as it had to be.

"I still believe that people are really good at heart"

She puts us to shame.:cry:

[stray cat]

2. That getting old may have its drawbacks health wise but its not the worse thing

[Berry Cool]

3. I would hope we'd be able to follow her on a blog and Twitter.

Just think, a world full of "Kitty"s to write to...

[madamesilverspurs]

4. My seventh grade English teacher (1959-60)

read the entire book to the class. Some days it was just a page or two, other days she read for the entire classtime. There was no discussion and we were never quizzed on it. At the beginning of the school year we had little understanding of what she was trying to do. By the end of the first month, even the most rambunctious kids listened intently. By the end of the school year we had some appreciation for those artifacts of WWII that most of us had in our homes, whether those artifacts were medals or helmets or photos of dads who didn't come back from the war. And we came to understand why our teacher sometimes cried as she read the diary, and we did our best to comfort those students who wept with her.

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[awoke_in_2003]

11. I never knew the meaning...

of "gobsmacked" until I read your post. As someone who had personal friendships with Holocaust survivors, your post was truly a 2X4 to my head.

[BB1]

6. There is a book coming up...

by a woman who went to school with her. I believe it's called 'Life after Anne Frank', something like that. It's Dutch, I don't know whether it will be translated.

[tom_paine]

7. She would say to America, "Oh, no! NOT AGAIN!"

I would guess a diligent person like her with a thrist for understanding what was going on and why couldn't fail to notice that the Bush Family, America's closest Nazi allies, had put a grip on the nation and controlled substantive parts of the executive branch even when they were supposedly out of power.

I would guess that, in 1988, when actual real-life Nazis were discovered in HW Bush's "ethnic outreach program", she would have howled in despair at the fact that the Corporate Controlled M$M let it drop into the memory hole. She would have been stunned and pained that the Jewsih Leadership of the USA not only let Corporate M$M flush it down the memory hole but later allied with America's Greatest Nazi Allies, the Bush Family and the Repubican Party dominated by a toxic combination of Bushies and KKK-types.

By now, as things get VERY obvious and the end is nearer the beginning, she would be howling in despair.

[Ken Burch]

9. She would be in solidarity with ALL the world's oppressed people:

[proteus_lives]

14. Yeah, she would be against Hamas.

[Ken Burch]

15. AND the IDF and the settlers.

n/t.

[Old Troop]

10. "Those damned NAZIs killed me and my family"

[hamerfan]

12. I think she would say...

Please spell my first name correctly. It's Anne, not Ann.
(Sorry).
hamerfan

[struggle4progress]

13. "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart"

I hope she would have looked at the world with clear realism and yet retained her optimism