Name: Leslie
September 06, 2003 04:03 PM | Location:
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Where is the Love ??????? |
Name: gwen de fortuna
September 06, 2003 01:16 AM | Location:
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First, I must say that this website itself is extraordinary. What a GIFT! Thank you. I hope to see the exhibition.
I was amazed, as I experienced the "First Entries" again here, at how vividly I recalled her words. The rhythm and passion of her writing is so distinct. I'm sure I feel it's influence even now. I know my first diary was started after I read hers; I must have been about 12 or 13. I think the thing that really hit me was her list of her ideal physical attributes. Can't we all identify with that pre-teen self-scrutiny? I know I did when I first read it, and I still do now. It's so endearingly human.
A list of your personal wants and needs, your private hopes and dreams? Anne's diaries show that there can be profound beauty in such minutia. I believe that the decree of the Dutch Govt. requesting the population to document that tumultuous era was an inspired one, although I can imagine many at the time may have dismissed it as trivial, or useless in the face of their hardships. But I learned today how that decree inspired Anne. And here we are, generation after generation, inspired in turn. |
Name: Kacie Smith
September 05, 2003 11:14 AM | Location:
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I'm a senior at my high school. When I was a sophomore, my English teacher made us read "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl". I think it's the best thing that's ever happened to me. It's changed my life. It almost makes me sick to think that humans could be that cruel. It's unbelievable the way the Germans treated the Jews just because of their religion. That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. It makes me sad to know that there are still people like that in this world today. I think schools should make it a requirement to read Anne Frank in order to graduate from high school. This book really had an effect on me and maybe if it became a requirement, then the cruelty of the world might deminish a little. I highly recommend this book to people of all ages, races, and religions. Thank you |
Name: Sandra Pilla
September 03, 2003 05:00 PM | Location:
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I read "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" when I was a young girl myself, age 8. At the time, I knew little of the Nazi occupation and the horrors that occurred therein. An aspiring writer and keeper of a journal myself at that time, I clung to every word, naming my own diary "Kitty" and going to the local library to learn more about the Holocaust and why people would have to go into hiding just because they were Jewish. Yet ironically, I felt we had so much in common, Anne and I. Just how did I, an Italian American in a middle-class society that could only seem privileged in comparison, relate to this child in hiding in a bygone era that I could never comprehend? Somehow, Anne Frank's pensive spirit absored me through those early readings. And while relating to her human side, what I alternately learned from reading Anne's diary was so horrific, it seemed it could only be fiction; learning the sickening truth of an ugly history only made me emulate the writer more, for she had a way of expressing what was in her heart and mind both logically and optimistically, and bravely. Her influence has guided me to journalism and a lifelong love of reading and writing. I now own reproductions of most of Anne's wirings in the various incarnations, including several editions of the diary. I encourage everyone, youth and adult, to read this diary for all times. For me, it is still the genuine article. |
Name: Angela Elsender
September 03, 2003 01:38 PM | Location:
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I was about 9 when I first ever read the diary my 17 year old read when she was young and my 9 year old has just finished it. There is very little education on the holocaust in British schools Some adults of my age are still ignorant about this tragedy |
Name: Samantha
September 01, 2003 09:35 PM | Location:
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i read the book when i was 11 and i can imagine what she felt like. sometimes i get scared but for the reasons i get scared are nothing compared to how Anne might of felt. i cried once i finished the book. i am going through some of the stages that Anne was going through at the time she was writing her diary. i just recently turned 12 and i belive that Anne was a strong and faithful young girl |
Name: Sanaz Orouji
August 30, 2003 01:00 AM | Location:
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I have heard of Anne Frank before, but never took interest until this day. She seems very intelligent and her quotations about life touches me. They seem so true and accurate. Soemtimes, i seem to question myself wheather people will follow and listen to her quotations. She seems a true inspiration for me. |
Name: lynda baker
August 27, 2003 05:47 PM | Location:
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i was actually an adult,and living in the pocono mts in pa. when i first read this wonderful book,it brought history to life to me in a way that nothing had before. i cried really hard when i found out that she was dead. |
Name: Fred
August 27, 2003 04:20 PM | Location:
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I can relate to the diary of Anne Frank since I also lived in hiding as a jewish child in the Belgian Ardennes. The daily fear and anxiety that my family and I would be caught in the dragnet of the SS was ever present even to me as achild between the age of 10 to 12. The diary of Anne Frank is a legacy to future generations of children her age and beyond. |
Name: Freddy
August 27, 2003 02:03 PM | Location:
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The first time I heard about Anne Franck's Journal when I assisted to a theatre representation of the diary in Paris in the 1950s. I could relate to her because I also lived in hiding during World War Two as a jewish child and I also had the same feelings she wrote about in her diary. I survived primarily beacuse my family and I moved each 6 month from g hiding place to hiding place so as not to arouse suspicion. Sadly this was not the case for Anne Franck and her family. Today, I fear that in the world many similar children live in fear of their lives , maybe not in similar circumstances, and share her feelings. May the reading of Anne Franck's Diary and this exhibition further inspirer people to become more tolerant about differences in background and stand up to the propagation of hate. |
