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Anne
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Inspired by the Anne Frank movie on PBS tonight (see Finally, an ‘Anne Frank’ deserving of the screen, Washington Post 4/11/10) and in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day today.
”Whoever destroys a single life, it is as if he has destroyed an entire world; and whoever preserves a single life, it is as if he has saved an entire world.”.” – Talmud: Sanhedrin 37a
The death of six million
Is tragically sad,
But it’s the death of each one of those
That makes it so bad.
Tonight’s ‘Anne Frank’
Reminds me of the fact
That each one of those six million
Wasn’t just abstract.
The movie’s power is that
It ensures we’ve realized
That Anne Frank was important
For more than she symbolized.
She was a person
With a life of her own.
What would she have become
If only she’d grown?
She was just one out of six million,
And just 15 herself.
But that’s the point:
She was just one out of six million…
A self.
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