The
Reincarnation Of Anne Frank Garland told her father, “I am her.” “Every
girl is.” “She was a writer” “whose story helped cheat Hitler.” There were
words like “crying so hard she never forgot to say ‘yes,’” words like “their ambitions not ours,” words like “when you deal with the history of Shoah,” words like “make clear what is fact.”
“Anne and her father” “living in Amsterdam” “where he was to arrange” “the
secret annex” “visited the orphanage” “a dozen times.” “How engaged she” “and
her father were” “the two of them.” “Very close.” “Others remember” “she had a
leader’s personality” “big know-it-all” “domineering.” “When the Nazis occupied
Holland” “in May 1940” “they showed Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs.” “Jews were forbidden” “to go to movies.” “Her
father” “knowing his wife had died” “was liberated from Auschwitz.” “He looked
like a ghost.” “One day, he came to us” “with a little parcel.” “It was a
diary.” [Published
in The Ongoing Saga I Told My Daughter:
Expanded Edition. ©
2016 by Jim Cohn.] |
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