Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who kept a diary while hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Her diary, published as "The Diary of a Young Girl," provides a firsthand account of the Holocaust and has become a symbol of resilience and hope. Anne's writing has had a profound impact on readers worldwide, offering a personal perspective on the horrors of war and persecution.
4 Key excerpts on "Anne Frank"
- Daniel Thomas Cook, Daniel Thomas Cook(Authors)
- 2020(Publication Date)
- SAGE Publications Ltd(Publisher)
...Is her diary a girl’s book or literature, for instance? And how will the image of Anne develop in the 21th century? Will she remain a moral guide, long after Auschwitz and Hiroshima? Today, an increasing number of people connect Anne with their own story. In many contexts, her legacy continues to be evoked to speak more broadly about the plight of young refugees everywhere. After all, Anne was a refugee, welcomed in the Netherlands but refused entry to the United States. In the 21st century, many people may place less faith in the inner goodness of people than in the 1950s or 1960s. Nevertheless, Anne’s optimistic and lively side will likely continue to attract new readers in the future. David Barnouw See also Refugees ; War and War-Affected Children Further Readings Barnouw, D. (2018). The phenomenon of Anne Frank. Bloomington : Indiana University Press. doi: 10.1177/030639689603800211 Barnouw, D., & Van der Stroom, G. (Eds.). (1989). The diary of Anne Frank: The critical edition. London, UK : Viking Penguin. Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, B., & Shandler, J. (Eds.)...
eBook - ePubPornography and Silence
Culture's Revenge Against Nature
- Susan Griffin(Author)
- 2015(Publication Date)
- Open Road Media(Publisher)
...We learn what it is like to sit for three days without moving or speaking. We hear her careful description of her sufferings with a flu; she tells us all the remedies brought to heal her. She tells us how each member of her family was able to bathe, of how they were able to relieve themselves when the plumber turned off the water for the day. She gives lessons in how to peel a potato. All this detail brings us home to ourselves. Anne Frank was not a document. She was not a number or a photograph. Not simply part of an abstract idea or a madman’s fantasy. She was flesh and blood. This being—just over the edge of womanhood—was the most feeling and idealistic of creatures. It is her belief in the goodness of humanity which is able to bring a heart numbed by the horrible events of the Holocaust back to its own grief. Above all, she immerses herself and her readers in the world of feelings. She tells us she likes to see a person angry because from this anger she can read character. In her dreams, an old friend she had misjudged pleads to her, “… help me … rescue me.” She is filled with compassion, like all adolescent girls, for the mute and the weak. That the adolescent girl becomes ashamed of this body which she begins to feel so powerfully. That a girl just turned woman should be the symbol of those who perished from the violence of a mass delusion. That it is another girl becoming woman, Iphigenia, who is sacrificed to the principles of warfare and violence, in our mythology, in our dreams. That now, in this late twentieth century, we see the faces and bodies of girls, their bodies barely showing breasts, in postures of seductiveness which suggest to us that these souls have already gone through a kind of rape. That the innocence and vulnerability of childhood has been sacrificed in these young women, as girls too young for sexuality promise their bodies to men. The obsession of the pornographer with the unformed body of a child virgin...
eBook - ePub- Anastasia Ulanowicz(Author)
- 2013(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...In effect, Anne Frank, as a literary patron of sorts, authorizes Zlata’s diary, insofar as Anne functions as an author by whom Zlata may establish the legitimacy and purpose of her own text. In the Foucauldian sense, the term “author” does not designate an actual individual but rather operates as a figure—or a “function”—under which a body of texts may be classified. The “name of the author,” writes Foucault, “remains at the contours of texts—separating one from the other, defining their form, and characterizing a mode of existence” (123). The name of the author, moreover, may be assigned not only to those texts traditionally attributed to a specific individual, but to an entire discursive tradition “within which new books and authors can proliferate” (131). In this way, Foucault argues, Marx and Freud can be understood as authors not only of specific texts (such as Capital [1867] and The Interpretation of Dreams [1900], respectively) but of an “endless possibility of discourse” that extends beyond the scope of these individual texts (131). Given this understanding of authorship, one might recognize Zlata’s explicit and implicit allusions to Anne Frank not as an appeal to a specific historical personage, with whom she identifies and whom she tries to emulate. Rather, one might interpret such allusions as an appeal to a particular literary tradition of child’s wartime writing—whose inauguration is conventionally attributed to Anne Frank—into which Zlata might insert her own text and thereby assert its legitimacy. On its own, Zlata’s narrative threatens to appear as a collection of trauma fragments that are only minimally connected to one another. However, the invocation of a figure, Anne Frank, bestows upon these fragments a cohesion they might not originally have had. Such an invocation signals, in other words, the form (i.e., the wartime diary) under which these otherwise disparate entries are organized...
eBook - ePubEva's Story
A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
- Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent(Authors)
- 2010(Publication Date)
- Eerdmans(Publisher)
...After the war, people said, “We have learned our lesson — there will never be another Auschwitz.” But by the 1970s and ’80s there was plenty of prejudice and hatred again, along with wars, genocide, and “ethnic cleansing.” In addition, some people at that time started to deny that the Holocaust had ever happened. So, in reaction to such vile propaganda, many survivors were ready to talk about their experiences of the Holocaust. We decided that it was our responsibility to educate young people about the dangers of discrimination, prejudice and violence against a singled-out group of people. Anne’s wish was to live on after she died. I think that, in a remarkable way, she has — through the publication of the Diary and its tremendous success. Wherever you go, you only have to mention her name and everyone knows about her life. But my mother and I always felt that Heinz and those other 1.5 million Jewish children who perished have been more or less forgotten. My brother was not even eighteen when he died, and he was definitely a special person — sensitive, artistic, and very talented — but basically forgotten by the world. As a survivor, I feel that I owe it to him to share something of our family — my close relationships with my father and him and the love we had — with readers all over the world. Q What do you believe children, teens, and adults can learn by reading Eva’s Story ? And what can we do, in these early years of the twenty-first century, to assure that “ethnic cleansing” or another Holocaust will not happen again? A I have told people in England and America that my story is Anne Frank’s story after her famous Diary ends. It is thus a sequel to Anne’s Diary, the story she could not tell because she died, but that I could tell because I survived...
