‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ Has Never Been More Important Than It is Today
The biggest mistake people make about “The Diary of Anne Frank” is to assume it’s about a little dead girl.
It’s not.
Anne Frank is not dead.
Not in 1945. Not in 2019.
Anne was a Dutch Jew hiding from the Nazis with her family and four others in a loft above her father’s former factory in Amsterdam.
The teenager is the most famous victim of the Holocaust, but her story doesn’t end when she succumbed to typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the closing days of WWII.
Because it’s a story that never ends.
Her physical self may be gone, but her spirit remains.
In the 1990s, she was a Muslim Bosniak child killed by Christian Serbs in the former Yugoslavia.
In the 2000s, she was a Christian Darfuri in Western Sudan killed by Arab militias.
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