#Anne Frank Remembered

[eretzyisrael]

This is Miep Gies. She was the last remaining survivor who helped in hiding the Frank family during WWII. Miep was born to a Catholic family in Vienna on February 15, 1909. Following WWI, conditions in Austria worsened and food supplies were sparse, Miep’s parents sent her to the Netherlands for a healthier life with a foster family.

In 1933, Miep started working as a secretary for Otto Frank. The two worked together for several years as things in Amsterdam became increasingly dangerous for Jews. One day, in July 1942, Otto sat down with Miep to share his plans of hiding in a Secret Annex in Otto’s office building and asked if she was able to help. Without any hesitation, Miep immediately agreed. She, together with her husband Jan, put their lives at risk by providing food, news and other supplies. The Franks were joined in the attic by another Jewish family and Miep’s dentist. In August 1944, all 8 individuals were found by the Gestapo after 25 months in hiding. Miep was working in the building at the time and immediately ran to save Anne’s notebooks and put in her desk drawer for safekeeping.

Following their deportation to concentration camps, Otto was the only one to survive. In January 1945, he returned to Amsterdam and reunited with Miep. It was then that she shared Anne’s diary. After the war, Otto lived with Miep’s family and organized Anne’s notes into a book which was first published in the Netherlands in 1947. “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” went on to sell tens of millions of copies worldwide.

 In 1987, Miep published a memoir, ‘Anne Frank Remembered’. “I am not a hero. I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did and more–much more–during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the heart of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then.” In January 2010, Miep died in the Netherlands at 100 years old.

Humans of Judaism

[andrewisdoing]

Logging in all of the books I’m reading on GoodReads

Yes, I am reading too many but this is the most addicted I’ve been in awhile.

[gramarobin]

[driftingballoons]

remembering one time in high school where this girl was telling everyone what they “looked” like. One girl got dubbed a plum, another christened as a coconut, and I?

this abomination

[plxviophile]

why is ryan murphy still allowed to make shows?

[valcaira]

Few things were as harrowing in my life as standing in front of Anne Frank's gravestone in Bergenbelsen at the age of fifteen while being surrounded by a mass-grave.

I cannot really put it into words, even now five years later. I hope you're resting well, Anne. You didn't deserve any of that.

[troythecatfish]

[one-happy-silent-geek-girl]

If you ever feel like humanity sucks here's my advice :

Go outside. No seriously, walk around your city, take the bus, go to a café, do something with other people around and without your phone. Please by god look away from you phone for just a few minutes. And soon enough you'll see so many things. You'll see people lending a hand, smiling at each other, talking and even laughing.

Just today I took the bus and in less than and hour : I talked with a very nice lady, I watched people help her with her heavy bags, I watched people let others go into the bus before them, an old man smiled at me after I let him get in before me, I saw two friends talking and laughing with each others, etc

I know it may sound dumb but I swear those are the little things that make me the happiest. Happiness comes in little boxes. It's too you to catch them when they pass and cherish them for a moment.

[geffenrecords]

rereading the fault in our stars because i read it when i was like 11 and cried so hard for an entire night but i watched the movie with my sibling last year and it was so crazy bad i was like dude this is not right no way it was this bad . and yk I think the movie is a lot worse and more annoying but the books fine . can't say it's great and it's John green so it's super annoying but like it's really not that bad . it's okay. the Anne frank house part is SO fucking terrible though so that kind of cancels everything out.

[konakoro]

On rewatch, I can't help but think that the radio show Karen goes on and gets targeted by the bomber in The Punisher was originally planned to be Trish Talk and have Trish make a quick cameo, but maybe scheduling forced them to change it to a random radio host instead.

I think it seems plausible since that seems like something Trish would've wanted to talk about on her show, and she and Karen had previously met on the Defenders, so there's a pre-established link between them.

What could've been...

[crunchycrystals]

the cigarette was a metaphor

[hrrmgrrg]

how old were you when you read animal farm

[no-one-picked-maris]

fucking reddit

[marietheran]

timelines are so terribly weird, because like... wwii was only eighty years ago, but also very soon no one will remember it, but also anne frank was two years older than my grandpa, but he just passed away, and also tolkien died before my mother was born, but also he was kind of the same generation as some of my great-grandparents, and st. therese lived the entirety of her life in the 19th century but she was just the generation before that, and my mother was born just thirty years after world war two and eighty years isn't old for a building unless you're in warsaw and shakespeare lived five centuries ago which is so much but also someone could conceivably be just five degrees of separation away from him

[poetrysmackdown]

welcome to the 2023 tumblr poetry smackdown

tumblr has developed something of a canon of poetry over the past couple years, and i figured others might enjoy getting a chance to voice their opinions on a few of those poems! poems i chose for the poetry smackdown had to be more or less widely read on tumblr (generally 10k+ notes, most with more or spread across compilations), and relatively short so as to make voting easier. they also had to be complete—there are a lot of popular lines floating around on tumblr that are excerpted from very long poems and/or poems that are inaccessible via internet, and those aren't included here. a handful of poets are represented here twice reflecting my sense of their popularity, but i arranged the bracket in such a way that it won't be able to stay that way past round 2 at the latest. if i missed a poem that is super popular i'm sorry, that said the bracket is staying as is because this was a shit ton of work to put together and i don't want to. ty.

you can get to the polls by following the links below or going to the #round1 tag on my blog. you can also send me propaganda if you want via ask and i'll post it/add it to the next round's post if the poem wins.

happy voting!

sincerely amelia @poetriarchy :)

ROUND 1: ENDS JULY 17 at 6pm EDT

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin vs. "Butter Dish" by Leonard Cohen (cow poems)

"Poem" by Langston Hughes vs. "A Meeting" by Wendell Berry

"Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love." by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. "My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task" by Jon Pineda

"Hammond B3 Organ Cistern" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. "Hong Kong" by Sue Zhao

"someone will remember us" (fragment by Sappho trans. Anne Carson) vs. "Wait" by Faraj Bou al-Isha trans. Khaled Mattawa

"The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel vs "Invisible Fish" by Joy Harjo

"Want" by Joan Larkin vs. "Come, and Be My Baby" by Maya Angelou

"Swan" by Mary Oliver vs. "How I Go to the Woods" by Mary Oliver

"The Orange" by Wendy Cope vs. "The Tenor of Your Yes" by Mary Ruefle

"Here There Are Blueberries" by Mary Syzbist vs. "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón

"To The Young Who Want to Die" by Gwendolyn Brooks vs. "A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde

"Night Walk" by Franz Wright vs. "Meditations in an Emergency" by Cameron Awkward-Rich

"Summer Was Forever" by Chen Chen vs. "I'm not a religious person but" by Chen Chen

"How to Be a Dog" by Andrew Kane vs. "Scheherazade" by Richard Siken

"I'm going to Minnesota where sadness makes sense" by Danez Smith vs. "Dream Song 29" by John Berryman

"Having a Coke with You" by Frank O'Hara vs. "Having 'Having a Coke with You' with You" by Mark Leidner

ADDENDUM: at 6pm on July 17th (or possibly a day earlier if there's already a clear sweep), I will be releasing a one-day poll that will give voters the option to sub in "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver for the winner of matchup #8: "Swan" vs. "How I Go to the Woods". this is to help correct my significant oversight when I was remembering which two Oliver poems I've seen most on tumblr, and it's the only time I'm doing this kind of thing, so don't suggest it for any other poems after this please. that said, a sincere ty to @darkcomedies for first bringing its absence to my attention! and keep an eye out for this extra poll which i am calling ROUND 1.5: A HAIL MARY (OLIVER)

[lunar-years]

Further thoughts on this: do we think Jamie going to see the Fault In Our Stars in part sparked his desire to return to Amsterdam? Like maybe he watched it and was like “wow this place looks really cool I wish perhaps I could remember being there and also experience it without my horrible father.” So then he takes his mum and rants to her about Hazel Grace and whats-his-face and the entire plot of the movie (which he remembers in excruciating detail, like more so than his own actual first time being in Amsterdam, and that should maybe be concerning but it’s a thought for another day) (but his mum loves hearing about this teenage tragi-romance just because of how excited her boy seems to be about it) (Jamie is like Mum here take a picture of me sitting on the bench)

I love that Jamie pointed out the stupid Fault in our Stars bench like yes finally some random representation of the ironclad grip those two kids kissing in the Anne Frank House had on teenagers in the early ‘10s