June 11, 2009
Anne Frank's 80th birthday
The Anne Frank House museum says it will put the teenage Holocaust victim's diaries and other writings on permanent display to commemorate what would have been her 80th birthday on Friday. . .Full article here.Until now her posthumously published diaries and other works have been kept in an archive at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. Some have previously been displayed at the museum, which encompasses and preserves the "Secret Annex" — the tiny apartment above a canal-side warehouse where the Frank family hid for two years.
Posted by David on June 11, 2009 10:48 PM
I have been to the little rooms where the Frank family lived. I was there 34 years ago. I noticed the place from the corner because I saw a Dutch and Israelie flag flying side by side. "Strange" I thought.
I didn't know that the Franks were captured in Amsterdam, for some reason I thought they were Poles.
The rooms were full of the original furnature. There was a photo of the diary. At the time it was in Israel. Otto Von Frank was still living and had custody of the book.
I understand that today the furniture has been removed. It is a sad and poignant place.
After I left Amsterdam I went to Munich and visited Dachu. Not a million laughts either. Then I traved to Austria, to a town called Wolfsburg where I met some old, well known Nazis. One fellow, Dr. Preuss, who was in the Ministry of Propanda in Osterreich said to me, "Many times I have sat as close to Hitler as I am sitting to you now."
So I went from Anne Frank's empty bedroom, with the picture of Ray Mallend on the wall that she had colored in, to Dachu and on to a meeting with ancient (now dead) Nazi's.
Quite an unforgetable trip
Posted by: Steve on June 27, 2009 4:36 PM
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