“The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank in an enduring memoir of life during the holocaust. I was introduced to this book in high school, and recently picked it up for another read.
Anne Frank puts a human face on the atrocities committed during this time in history. The honest words of a young girl put the reader, for a brief moment, in her shoes. Through this diary Anne Frank lives on, teaching so many others the effects of hatred and abuse of power on others.
Anne was denied the chance to develop into a woman. She was denied everything that comes with a long, happy life. And to add insult, she died amid hatred and inhumane conditions. I'm sure she could not understand how her fellow humans turned their backs on her, why she was hunted. And I cannot understand the why, can anyone?
I felt hopeless and sad thinking of Anne. She was introduced to the dregs of humanity. And they surround us, still today, these people filled with hatred. The persecution of others is still happening.
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