#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

[capeswater]

always thinking about john green’s “has anyone ever actually done this??? ever???” when the girl in his book/movie kissed the boy first

[cacaitos]

do you guys think this tiny ass book possesses the entirety of dorian gray or not 😭😭

[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.

[anxiously-going]

It's late and im exhausted which means my mind going off wandering in odd places and this seems as bad a place as any to share those wandering thoughts.

I recently went home for the holidays and told my mom about joking around with one of my managers, whom I love, that ended with said manager telling me I have Mexican ears. I didn't know what that meant, and my mom said she didn't know either, but I definitely have a Jewish nose, which I got from her father.

Now here's the thing (not really this is a side tangent). I've expressed to my dear mother, whom I love, that I've always been confused when visually clocked as having Jewish heritage before. Like, we were stopped in front of a shop once and asked if we were Jewish and when we walked away I was like "how did that guy know?" and this woman has always shrugged me off, but now all these years later, it's my nose shape. Couldn't have told me that a decade ago when asked the first time?

My sweet mother told me that while it's not necessarily big, it is a Jewish nose shape, but she'd never heard of Mexican ears.

Now, I have heard that both the narrow, hooked noses and the very round noses are both common stereotypes of a "Jewish nose", and as I was staring at my sleep deprived, and recovering from illness face in the mirror tonight, I found myself wondering if different stereotypes were more often associated with different sects of Judaism and if figuring out which stereotype I most looked like might indicate which sect my grandfather came from, if I anyone else have ever recognized my Mexican ears, and if I actually have a Lantina-stache, or if that is another Jewish trait that has gone unrecognized.

[hrrmgrrg]

how old were you when you read animal farm

[no-one-picked-maris]

fucking reddit

[galerymod]

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

Was Anne Frank betrayed?

How were the people in hiding discovered? Were they betrayed? These two questions are asked most often when it comes to Anne Frank. On this page, we present what we know exactly, what unproven theories exist, and what is wrong with certainty.

If you are interested, translate it. Knowledge about the past is always an advantage for recognising tomorrow's disasters today.

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don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again

(Anne Frank)

[marietheran-archived]

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