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Someone just pointed out to me how Anne Frank and Martin Luther King JR. were both born in the same year, but most people associate them as being in complete different points in history.
This blew my mind
holy fucking shit
1929 if anyone’s wondering.
Someone just pointed out to me how Anne Frank and Martin Luther King JR. were both born in the same year, but most people associate them as being in complete different points in history.
This blew my mind
holy fucking shit
1929 if anyone’s wondering.
Someone just pointed out to me how Anne Frank and Martin Luther King JR. were both born in the same year, but most people associate them as being in complete different points in history.
This blew my mind
holy fucking shit
1929 if anyone’s wondering.
Anne and Margot Frank at the beach, 1940.
Colorization by me, original photo from @sixpenceee
This is amazing! Thank you.
I wow that’s amazing
what the fuck
Home to the Anne Frank Museum, the Netherlands is no stranger to weird buildings that have no basis in history or reality.
WHAT THE FUCK
Someone just pointed out to me how Anne Frank and Martin Luther King JR. were both born in the same year, but most people associate them as being in complete different points in history.
This blew my mind
holy fucking shit
1929 if anyone’s wondering.
Someone just pointed out to me how Anne Frank and Martin Luther King JR. were both born in the same year, but most people associate them as being in complete different points in history.
This blew my mind
holy fucking shit
1929 if anyone’s wondering.
i dont just hate john green because he’s annoying with an inflated ego i hate him because he said “she just died of illness like most people” in reference to anne frank
HOLY FUCK
Um… She did die of an illness. Typhus. You’re taking it out of context.
in the words of ariane lange:
"They don’t talk in any detail about her life, and they don’t talk in any detail about her death. And, I imagine, this is because the metaphor would quickly fall apart if we actually confronted Green’s assertion that Anne Frank “just died of illness like most people.”
She did not die “like most people.” On Aug. 4, 1944, after two years in hiding in Amsterdam, Anne Frank, her parents, and her sister were arrested. She and her family were deported first to the Westerbork transit camp. On Sept. 3, they were moved to Auschwitz; they were confined for three days in a train car that had a bucket for human waste. Upon arrival, she, along with all the prisoners on the train, was forced to strip naked. Because she had just turned 15, she made the Nazis’ age cutoff and was not immediately sent to the gas chambers. She was a slave in the camps until she got scabies, likely because of the camp’s filthy living conditions and overcrowding; she was moved to the quarantine area, where the bodies of the dead were sometimes left for days at a time before they were dragged outside. Probably in October of 1944, she was moved to Bergen-Belsen — also severely overcrowded. Her clothes were infested with fleas and lice, and she eventually threw them away and wore a blanket instead, in the winter. She died there in 1945, emaciated and freezing, during a typhus outbreak. Her body was heaped on a pile of other bodies. When the camp was liberated by British soldiers, they found the ground blanketed with unburied corpses. She’s not a metaphor for All People Who Die Young: She’s a real, historic person who was murdered, and to say, “She, like Hazel and Augustus, is a person who died young but still lived a meaningful life” robs her memory of its true meaning, which is that this slaughter, Shoah, was a senseless tragedy, the result of deliberate evil. Lidewij says “Anne Frank,” and the audience is just supposed to understand. And what we’re supposed to understand is not “a teenager’s emaciated body lying on the freezing ground in a pile of corpses.” We’re supposed to understand, “Ah, yes, Anne Frank, died young, very sad.” Cancer is heartbreaking, but it is not a genocide; it is not an organized mass murder, and to compare the two erases the intentional aspect of genocide.”
wow that interview is embarassingly tone deaf
Why did you decide to throw in the story of Anne Frank alongside these fictional young women whose lives are also cut short?
Anne Frank was a pretty good example of a young person who ended up having the kind of heroic arc that Augustus wants—she was remembered and she left this mark that he thinks is valuable—but when he has to confront her death, he has to confront the reality that really she was robbed of the opportunity to live or die for something. She just died of illness like most people. And so I wanted him to go with a sort of expectation of her heroism and be sort of dashed.
Augustus finds some of that sense of nobility and heroism in videogames. To what extent does he approach those games that way as a function of his illness?
I think that those first-person shooter videogames have become our heroic epics. Where the Greeks had The Odyssey, we have Modern Warfare, for better or worse. Almost all of us think that to be a good life, a life must be either long or grandly heroic, and I think that's one of the things that's so appealing about those videogames. I mean, there's the pleasure of shooting people, but also there's the opportunity to have a kind of nobility in all of it. I think that is much more important to him because he's sick, because that's the life that he wanted. That's a sacrifice that he's desperate to find a way to make, the heroism that he's desperate to have, and that just isn't available to him, unfortunately.... Well, I don't know if it's unfortunate or not actually.
duuuuuude no
my teacher wasn’t expecting a thesis on anti-semitism in us english classrooms when he assigned a short personal reflection on night but that’s what he’s getting
you asked for it so
damn
hi friends. have you ever wanted to read a lot of words about how anne frank is misrepresented in popular consciousness? if so, have i got a post for you! earlier today, i read an article that sums up a lot of my thoughts (“who owns anne frank?” by cynthia ozick, published in the...
[[interracialcrazyblowjobs liked your link: The expurgation of the clitoris in the diary of Anne Frank]]
this means something. this is //important//.
“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
housingworksbookstore:
“The effacement of the clitoris extends even to Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl. When the unabridged edition of the diaries were released in 1995, the 50th anniversary of her death, they included the previously deleted passages that contained some of Anne’s negative remarks about her housemates and parents as well as a lengthy entry from March 24, 1944 in which she describes her vulva, clitoris, and vagina from the perspective of her own fifteen year old gaze.”
Some post titles are innately superior to others.
See, stuff like this is why girls like me had to find out about the clitoris from the South Park movie.
