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elleng

(141,926 posts) Sun Dec 10, 2023, 08:17 PM Dec 2023

from Anne Frank House

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Hanukkah is being celebrated this week, and so did Anne Frank in 1942 while being in hiding. #Onthisday December 7, 1942 she wrote: 'Hanukkah and St. Nicholas Day nearly coincided this year; they were only one day apart. We didn't make much of a fuss with Hanukkah, merely exchanging a few small gifts and lighting the candles. Since candles are in short supply, we lit them for only ten minutes, but as long as we sing the song, that doesn't matter. Mr. Van Daan made a menorah out of wood, so that was taken care of too.'
Wishing you a Happy Hanukkah!

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from Anne Frank House (Original Post) elleng Dec 2023 OP

Makes you realize how precious (and perhaps fleeting) religious liberty is. 70sEraVet Dec 2023 #1

Never forget, people. God bless this child. Joinfortmill Dec 2023 #2

what happened to her was heartbreaking. I remember seeing the play in New York. That last scene, when she and her family CTyankee Dec 2023 #3

I went through her house last year Laurelin Dec 2023 #5

K&R Diamond_Dog Dec 2023 #4

K/R The only known moving film footage of Anne Frank, June 22, 1941 appalachiablue Dec 2023 #6

Oh my goodness! elleng Dec 2023 #7

70sEraVet

(5,616 posts)

1. Makes you realize how precious (and perhaps fleeting) religious liberty is.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sun Dec 10, 2023, 08:26 PM

Dec 2023

Joinfortmill

(21,668 posts)

2. Never forget, people. God bless this child.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sun Dec 10, 2023, 08:29 PM

Dec 2023

CTyankee

(68,479 posts)

3. what happened to her was heartbreaking. I remember seeing the play in New York. That last scene, when she and her family

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sun Dec 10, 2023, 09:08 PM

Dec 2023

were discovered, after you hoped she would survive until the liberators got there in the last days of the Nazis control in Amsterdam, just a few days before the liberation of the city, she and her family were betrayed and the Nazis found them, was utterly painful.

Laurelin

(955 posts)

5. I went through her house last year

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 11, 2023, 05:52 AM

Dec 2023

That was utterly painful, too.

I have never understood why people are so cruel to other people.

Diamond_Dog

(41,052 posts)

4. K&R

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sun Dec 10, 2023, 10:49 PM

Dec 2023

appalachiablue

(44,184 posts)

6. K/R The only known moving film footage of Anne Frank, June 22, 1941

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Dec 11, 2023, 12:01 PM

Dec 2023

elleng

(141,926 posts)

7. Oh my goodness!

Reply to appalachiablue (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 11, 2023, 01:51 PM

Dec 2023

She sure did it.

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