#anne frank and family

[yoursannefrank]

Anne Frank En Familiefoto's van Otto Frank

Source 1 , Source 2 , Source 3

Paperback - 9789072972903 - 95 pg

[void-of-unparalled-chaos]

The People Who Haunt Us (DpxDc Prompt)

Due to the Anti Ecto Acts, Danny decides it would be safer to leave the United States and live abroad.

One late evening walking down the streets of London, he sees some blonde dude get thrown out of a bar. Normally he would keep walking, but this guy is surrounded by ghosts. That's not too unusual in itself. It's relatively common for him to see one or two ghosts trailing after a living. What gives him pause is the sheer amount of ghosts haunting this drunk, sad-looking trenchcoat man.

[curiousb]

The Crawford Family Album: Volume XXV

When the kids were younger, the youngest Matthew was often the odd one out - his older twin siblings having their own particular bond - but now that they're growing up, they're all starting to appreciate family much more, and are becoming a tight-knit little unit. (All the kids have turned out to be Primary/Secondary Family Sims - according to my own Aspiration calculator. Who would have thought it, given that their parents are Romance/Pleasure/Fortune Sims!)

So, the first free weekend they get, they all head out together to Sanditon, where they're meeting their grandparents, Frederick and Anne, for a family bowling trip.

(It was just fortuitous that they happened to be there at the same time, but let's pretend it was by design. 😉)

Harsh, Frederick - ridiculing your own granddaughter!

Matthew is determined to show those pins who's the boss. (At last I've found a hair that suits him - he was a real challenge!)

Oh yes!

Anne and Frederick are having a great afternoon too. (I'm not sure that Jonathan - in the background - ever got his turn.)

Oops - looks like someone was having such a good time that they neglected their bathroom needs. To be honest, I have no sympathy for his embarrassment - not after he mocked Cecilia's efforts earlier!

Some cute pictures, to remember the occasion by.

Meanwhile, Frank and Sister Agnes are going head to head.

Matthew's efforts to get to know Georgia are a little clumsy, to say the least.

Yeah, I think I'd have the same expression if I'd been manhandled like that by a Sim I hardly know! (I think she looks so much like her dad Samuel.)

And look who else is here - it's runaway kitty Dolly! Still exerting her independence.

Matthew also grabs the opportunity to say hi to his dad Walter, when he happens to walk past. (He literally ran outside to greet him.) But sadly, Walter doesn't seem to have much interest in getting more involved in his older kids' lives. His focus now is entirely on his new family.

[royalchildreneurope]

Tessy Antony de Nassau, Prince Gabriel of Nassau, Prince Noah of Nassau, Frank Floessel, Theodor Floessel, François Antony and Régine Anne Antony pose for an official portrait as Prince Gabriel gives his first interview to Luxemburger Wort on the occasion of his 18th birthday, where he talked about his plans for the future and his special relationship with his siblings -March 12th 2024.

📷 : Claude Piscitelli/Luxemburger Wort.

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25 Menachem Av 5784 (28-29 August 2024)

Due to Anne Frank’s diary, the Frank family and their associates are among the best known victims of the Nazi regime. But the focus is almost always on the two years of their life that were spent in hiding in the upper chambers of Otto Frank’s workplace. That closed off existence was an anomaly that has little to do with the broader European Jewish experience of the Shoah. Examining the trajectory of the Frank’s life before and after their time in the Annex reveals more about how vulnerable even the most wealthy European Jews were in the face of Nazi targeting and the widespread antisemitism and apathy of other nations that could have provided refuge.

Otto and Edith Frank were prosperous German Jews from culturally integrated but still religiously practicing families in the Liberal (aka Reform) Movement. Otto had served in the German Imperial Army in the so-called “War to End All Wars” and then served as a bank manager and businessman. Edith was the heiress to a moderate industrial fortune. They were members of a well-established German Jewish middle class that was the envy of Jews across all the rest of Europe.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Otto Frank immediately recognized the danger, and moved his family to the Netherlands. Through family connections, he was able to open a Dutch branch of Opekta, a company that specialized in pectin and spices for canning.

The Franks were far from the only German emigres in Amsterdam’s Jewish community during those years. So many had seen the danger, but thought that across one border would be secure enough.

As the years passed, the Franks continued to hear from relatives in Germany as the situation became more and more dire. As it became clear that the Nazis wouldn’t be contained by Germany’s border, Otto began applying for visas elsewhere. The Franks were financially self-supporting, well educated, and in good health. The only thing standing in their way as potential immigrants was their Jewishness. Several years of applications proved fruitless.

The Nazis invaded the Netherlands and occupied the nation. Otto was forced to sell his businesses, the girls were kicked out of school. Rumors of the concentration camps spread. Otto continued to seek some route of escape. None was available. His former employees were eager to find some way to help— they saw the injustice of the situation keenly and were close personal friends of the Franks. But there were obvious and massive dangers to attempting to remain hidden in the Netherlands under Nazi rule. Otto continued to grasp for an alternative until the day the family received a summons to send their elder daughter, Margot, for forced labor in Germany. It is then that they sprung the plan Otto had come up with along with a small circle of Opekta employees to hide the family in the upper floors of the company’s offices. Everybody involved knew that to participate was too risk murder at the hands of the Nazi occupiers and betrayal by Dutch collaborators. But they had no other available options. The Franks had to travel on foot for several miles across the city— Jews had already been banned from traveling on Dutch public transportation by the Nazis. They left their apartment in disarray with notes suggesting a last minute dash for the Swiss border in the hopes of throwing the authorities off their scent.

Just over two years after their disappearance behind the walls of Otto’s office, the Franks found their refuge breached by the SS on the 25th of Av 5704 and they were placed first in a Nazi jail and then transported to Auschwitz. There they experienced every horror of life in the camps. Edith, Margot, and Anne all died within the next year, and Otto was the family’s sole survivor.

[anthrcpophagi]

Maren's Kill Count (currently)

Penny Wilson, 20s, a babysitter that wanted kids and adored Maren. Was eaten entirely one night while her mom was out, leaving nothing behind but her eardrum. Edgartown, PA

Luke Vanderwall, 8, a boy Maren befriended at a summer camp. He invited her to see his tent in the woods and she ate him Catskills, NY

Jamie Gash, 10, the son of her mom's boss at the time. He befriended Maren at a party her mom dragged her along to and, after showing her his favorite telescope in his bedroom, he tried to kiss her and she ate him. Badgserstown, MD

Dmitri Levertov, 11, a foreign exchange student that had the bad luck of getting paired with Maren at school. They were assigned to do a project together and Maren ate him at the park. New-fontaine, SC

Joe Sharkey, 12, a fellow classmate and neighbor who took a liking to Maren. He invited her on a picnic and she ate him before dumping his belongings into the swamp. Buckley, FL

Kevin Wheeler, 13, tba, Fairweather, NJ

Noble Collins, 14, a misfit that Maren befriended after moving to Maine. After falling to his death from an old lighthouse, Maren was afraid she'd be blamed for his death and ate him to cover it up. Holland, ME

Marcus Hoff, 15, tba, Barron Falls, MA

C.J. Mitchell, 16, Clover Hills, NY

Andy, an employee at a Walmart that Maren visited on her way to find her father. He caught her stealing and offered to buy her food in exchange for her 'company'. But when he tried to kiss her in his car, she panics and eats him. Pittston, IA

Travis, 30s, an orderly at Bridewell State Hospital, who was assigned to care for Maren's father. He took a liking to Frank Yearly and when Maren finally came to visit, he offered to give her a place to stay. After admitting that his reason for helping her included his desire to die at the hands of an eater, Maren left, disgusted. She never ate him, but later found his car abandoned by a bridge and assumed to have committed suicide. She takes responsibility for his apparent death.

Sully, Maren's estranged grandfather and Frank Yearly's adopted father. After Frank was found abandoned at a busstop as a child, likely due to his eater-nature, Sully took him in when he smelled what he was. After trying to attack Maren, she knocks him out and eats him.

Kerri-Ann, college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who took a liking to Lee while he was travelling with Maren. After being rude to Maren and trying to convince him to ditch her, Lee eats her. Maren uses Kerri-Ann's student credentials and ID to get around campus.

Lee, a fellow eater Maren befriended and fell in love with on her journey to find her dad. One night, when the two of them were drunk, they have sex and Maren blacks out. In the morning, she's covered in blood and Lee is no where to be found, only his clothes and hat are left on the floor.

Jason, college student at UWM and who had a crush on Maren. After seeing her working in the campus library, he kept visiting her in an attempt to ask her out. One day, she lures him into a supply closet by flirting with him and then eats him.

[cactuskid99]

Day 5 of posting about famous historic figure's siblings+their home country's national anthem: Margot Frank, Elder sister of Anne Frank, and, dasDeutschlandlied

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HIGHLIGHTS of the Day - August 1st

In a period full of bummer news from wars and natural disasters, we’re choosing to shine a spotlight on August 1st, the start of Ferragosto. So, let’s dig into the fascinating history of Ferragosto and what it’s all about. “Ferragosto, or as the locals call it, Ferro Agosto, is a super old Italian holiday with all kinds of history attached to it. The name comes from this Latin thing “Feriae…

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Review: Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation written by Anne Frank, adapted by Ari Folman, and illustrations by David Polonsky

Anne Frank’s DiaryAnne FrankAdapted by Ari FolmanIllustrations by David PolonskyPantheon BooksPublished October 2, 2018 Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About Anne Frank’s Diary A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived…

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Wild About Harry

About this time last year, Harry was surrounded by stacks of files and folders piled high on his desk, and the phone was ringing off the hook. He was a commercial real estate agent who was used to working long hours and after a brief retirement, his real estate business seemed to be flourishing. In addition to his business dealings, Harry had been keeping years of notes about his personal…

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[applesauce42069]

in this bought of anne frank statue vandalism they put red paint on her hands to make it look like she has blood on them. on the anniversary of her family being found and arrested by Nazis, before being sent to the concentration camps where she, A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD CHILD, was murdered for being a Jew.

and you put blood on her hands. because in your eyes, we are all guilty, even the long dead and murdered ones. that is what antisemitism is, and you are sick with it.

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And here is the most devastating fact of Frank's posthumous success, which leaves her real experience forever hidden: we know what she would have said, because other people have said it, and we don't want to hear it.

The line most often quoted from Frank's diary are her famous words, "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." These words are "inspiring," by which we mean that they flatter us. They make us feel forgiven for those lapses of our civilization that allow for piles of murdered girls—and if those words came from a murdered girl, well, then, we must be absolved, because they must be true. That gift of grace and absolution from a murdered Jew (exactly the gift that lies at the heart of Christianity) is what millions of people are so eager to find in Frank's hiding place, in her writings, in her "legacy." It is far more gratifying to believe that an innocent dead girl has offered us grace than to recognize the obvious: Frank wrote about people being "truly good at heart" before meeting people who weren't. Three weeks after writing those words, she met people who weren't.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them. This fact bears repeating, as it does not come up at all in Anne Frank's writings. Readers of her diary are aware that the author was murdered in a genocide, but this does not mean that her diary is a work about genocide. If it were, it is unlikely that it would have been anywhere near as universally embraced.

We know this, because there is no shortage of writings from victims and survivors who chronicled this fact in vivid detail, and none of those documents have achieved anything like Frank's diary's fame. Those that have come close have only done so by observing those same rules of hiding, the ones that insist on polite victims who don't insult their persecutors The work that came closest to achieving Frank's international fame might be Elie Wiesel's Night, a memoir that could be thought of as a continuation of Frank's diary, recounting the tortures of a fifteen-year-old imprisoned in Auschwitz. As the scholar Naomi Seidman has discussed, Wiesel first published his memoir in Yiddish, under the title And the World Was Silent. The Yiddish book told the same story told in Night, but it exploded with rage against his family's murderers and, as the title implies, the entire world whose indifference (or active hatred) made those murders possible. With the help of the French Catholic Nobel laureate François Mauriac, Wiesel later published a French version under the new title La Nuit—a work that repositioned the young survivor's rage into theological angst. After all, what reader would want to hear about how this society had failed, how he was guilty? Better to blame G[-]d. This approach earned Wiesel a Nobel Peace Prize, as well as, years later, selection for Oprah's Book Club, the American epitome of grace. It did not, however, make teenage girls read his book in Japan, the way they read Frank's. For that he would have had to hide much, much more.

from "Everyone's (Second) Favorite Dead Jew" in People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn, pp 9–10

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