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funnyface
10/16/09

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This completely warmed my heart. Anne's diary meant a LOT to me, particularly when I was a younger teen.

Side note: this is why I hate the condensed main page. Because I miss posts like this until like 3 hours later. #newjezebel #annefrank
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Jenloveshercurves
10/16/09

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My grandad helped to integrate Little Rock Highschool in 1957. You can see him as a national guardsmen in stock footage. #annefrank
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SomeAuthorGirl
10/16/09

@Jenloveshercurves: WOW. What an amazing thing. #annefrank
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Jenloveshercurves
10/16/09

@SomeAuthorGirl: It is, but he downplays it and says, "I was just a serviceman doing his job." It's kind of remarkable too because that is where he went to high school. The south is such a strange place. #annefrank
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funnyface
10/16/09

@Jenloveshercurves: My great uncle too! Kind of makes me wonder if they knew each other! My great uncle was actually an Air National Guard mechanic. He said the gun they gave him when they were nationalized didn't even have bullets in it and he didn't even know how to fire it! #annefrank
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Gumbina80
10/16/09

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So beautiful. I have goosebumps.

Imagine reading Anne's diary under one of those saplings. #annefrank
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curiousgeorgiana
10/16/09

@Gumbina80: Thanks for giving me the chills as well! #annefrank
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thesciencegirl
09/25/09

In reply to Diary Of A Young Girl
I read the Diary of Anne Frank for the first time in 8th grade, thus beginning my interest in Holocaust memoirs. I have read dozens of them, with the majority written by people who were teenagers at the time. I think they are all examples of how young people who already possessed great courage, character, and ingenuity even at a young age. They just happened to be put in positions where those traits were truly tested.

When I think of myself as a teenager, I definitely laugh at how I thought I was as mature as I'd ever get because of course I've grown since then. But it also reminds me to respect teenagers now because I always felt that I was more intelligent, aware, and intuitive than older people gave me credit for.
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alula
09/25/09

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I remember reading Reviving Ophelia as a young teenager (I liked to keep up on what my mom thought she was learning about me!), and being really moved by a section Mary Pipher writes about the "spiritual selves" of adolescent girls. (She mentioned Anne Frank and Joan of Arc, iirc.) One of the things that really stuck out for me is the idea that it's an age where a lot of girls are becoming intellectually capable of dealing with abstract issues like adults, but they combine that with the emotional fervor and intensity of adolescence, especially about justice and fairness. It was something that really resonated with me, and this quote reminded me of that.
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LizzieBennet-Darcy
09/25/09

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I read the Diary of Anne Frank when I was in fifth grade. My teacher pulled me aside and said "I think you'd like this". I was reading above my grade level and going through Christopher Pike, R.L Stine and The Baby-Sitter's Club books like water. I liked Shakespeare and Jane Austen and so when I decided to read the book I didn't know if I'd like it.

There is no happy ending to the Diary of Anne Frank, no prince to rescue her, no moment of truth where she realizes she can overcome the horrible faction that is taking over her life nor are there any worries about make-up and parties. This is a book about a real girl who went through one of the most horrific things that a person can go through.

She was beautiful as a person and an inspiration to, not just young women, but to everyone. The book taught us that there is always light even in the darkest of dark and there is always a voice in the silence.

I can't think of this book or the girl who wrote it without being reminded of how sad I was for her and how I wished I could destroy the Nazi's myself.
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mermil
09/25/09

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There's a family story about Anne Frank that has always haunted me. My parents went to a party hosted by a couple where the wife was the child of Holocaust survivors. One of the people at the party had gone to grade school with Anne Frank and she told my father that she was shocked when she'd read her diaries because the Anne Frank she knew was a tiny shy mouse, and she couldn't imagine that someone like that could write in such a clear, strong voice. When I was younger, I thought this made her story even sadder-- she never got to use that strong voice except in her writing. But now, I think that her diaries have made her voice "louder" than it ever could have been otherwise. I still wish she'd been given the chance to grow into that voice.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
09/25/09

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Francine Prose is among my favorite living authors. She's brilliant.
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BitingThrough
08/14/09

In reply to Revealed! Frank-By-Mamet!
First prize, an all-expenses paid trip to Berchtesgaden; Second Prize, an autographed picture of the Fuhrer, Third prize we shoot you.
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whynotshesaid
08/15/09

@BitingThrough: Glengarry Glen Ross references always make me swoon.
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onebluepussy
08/14/09

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I went to the same school as Anne Frank in Amsterdam (then already renamed Anne Frank school, with excerpts from her diary painted all over the facade)... and whenever i see this picture I'm reminded, because nothing in the building has changed since the late thirties, at least not when i went there (late eighties). she's sitting in front of one of the stoves that every classroom had. As a little girl I was completely obsessed by her; we all got a copy of the diary when we graduated but I'd already read it by age 6 or something.
Anyway, just wanted to share, bit unsure about the movie though.
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Lymed
08/14/09

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I'm laughing and slightly offended at the same time.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
08/14/09

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Fuck me, Sadie, but that's some good fucking script right there.
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shmoo15
08/12/09

In reply to Strange Bedfellows
Maybe I'm making this up, but wasn't Walt Disney rumored to be antisemitic?
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ritualtheory
08/12/09

@shmoo15: Fact, not rumor.
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NotChoinski
08/12/09

In reply to Strange Bedfellows
From the Onion:
Ghost of Anne frank: Stop reading my Diary!
[www.theonion.com]
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LaComtesse
08/12/09

In reply to Strange Bedfellows
I think Disney and Mamet signing on to this goes to show how "the Anne Frank story" has ceased to be what it was originally intended to be. Anne Frank is now a brand and not an individual. The book was published in the 50s when people were beginning to get over their own war stories and start looking at the horrible things that went on elsewhere to other people. While Anne was of course emblematic, the point of her father sharing her story was that she was an individual. Now if I had a dollar for every time I hear of a book being touted as "The French Anne Frank" or "The Polish Anne Frank" I'd be one rich bitch... with boiled blood.
This isn’t to say that a new telling of her story can’t yield positive results. I’m not mad that Disney and Mamet are doing this: there have been several renditions of this story for stage, screen, and (before both) radio (I’m currently working on a project of this now). But what it MEANS that they are doing it upsets me.
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this_mad_woman
08/12/09

@LaComtesse: one thing that i think is really interesting is that her diary, as we know it, is not really just her diary. she actually thought of herself as a writer and did a ton of rewriting and editing of her own journals to create what most of us think of as just her diary. she really thought of herself as an author and writer, not just a girl in hiding, which is part of why i find other comparisons to her odious myself, too. francine prose is publishing a really fascinating book about her as a writer really soon [www.amazon.com]
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