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Remembering Anne Frank

(1929-1945) life was good until it wasn’t we could almost forget the enemy we eluded the persecution so viciously relentless it was a matter of time till the enemy was again at our door trapped~ this time with no escape route we could only do what we must hide in the walls become ghosts hope to ride out the nightmare bent on surviving no matter the cost wondered if things would ever return to normal the fear ever vanish and life ever be as it should trusting there would be an end to it all someday someway somehow but the worst yet to come and it did when we thought it couldn’t get worse the unimaginable it came and it did leaving behind a handwritten journal stained with tears of a little girl her aborted dreams of becoming a journalist and making a name for herself AP: Honorable Mention 2021 Posted on April 13, 2020

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Timothy Mcguire

Date: 4/15/2020 9:09:00 PM

so good, I always ache for Ann, so close to the end of the war to die so young, and betrayed. Sad thing also is her poor father lived and she didn't.

Line Gauthier
Date: 4/15/2020 9:37:00 PM

Yes - his two daughters were in the same concentration camp and they died about a month apart. Their father only found out after the war.b Thanks for your visit and comment, Timothy.

Gershon Wolf

Date: 4/14/2020 1:49:00 PM

Moving tribute, Line. Thanks. Blessings, Gershon

Line Gauthier
Date: 4/14/2020 8:27:00 PM

Thanks, Gershon, Much appreciated.

Ilene Bauer

Date: 4/13/2020 4:01:00 PM

very touching, line! i volunteer at a holocaust museum in new york and we have an exhibit about anne frank, which is very powerful. your poem is a moving tribute...

Line Gauthier
Date: 4/13/2020 5:08:00 PM

That's awesome, Ilene. Your compliment means a lot to me.

Tom Cunningham

Date: 4/13/2020 3:21:00 PM

Beautiful tribute Line, mankind's inhumanity to his fellow man and yet it continues even to this day. Stay safe. Tom

Line Gauthier
Date: 4/13/2020 5:08:00 PM

Thanks for your much appreciated visit and comment, Tom.

Robert L. Hinshaw

Date: 4/13/2020 12:43:00 PM

A very insightful and moving write, Line. When my family & I were assigned to Germany with the Air Force, we lived on the street in Frankfurt just a few houses from where Anne was born & later visited her hiding place In Amsterdam. Very moving experiences, especially for our 2 daughters since they were about the same age as Anne when we visited those places. Take good care - Bob

Line Gauthier
Date: 4/13/2020 5:09:00 PM

Wow~ that's very touching, Robert.