ANNE FRANK'S BIRTHDAY

The Soul of a Young Girl: Anne Frank’s Birthday Today would have been Anne Frank’s 85th birthday. It is hard to imagine, as this Holocaust victim, this teenage diarist, this writer whose words and wisdom have reached and touched millions, will always be what the title of her journal says she is – a young girl. Anne never married. Anne never had children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren. Anne never lived the long and full life she might have. And neither did the millions of others who were murdered by the Nazis. But, as Anne says in her diary, “Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?” Because of Anne’s diary, we are able to glimpse a fraction of the humor and the sadness, the wisdom and the childishness – the things that made her a person. And we can wonder who she might have become, what she might have said or done. Perhaps we would have never known of her if she had lived, or maybe we would have. Like the millions who died along with her, we’ll never know who they might have been, or what went on in each of their minds and souls. So let us be thankful that we have the words of Anne Frank and the other Holocaust victims whose souls and lives are there for us to remember and to learn from. But let us never forget the millions of others who were murdered, whose souls were snuffed out, whose lives were never lived, and whose stories will never be fully told. And let us commit to providing comfort, support, and dignity to those who survived and are now living out their final years. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNE...gone but NEVER forgotten... Author: Stand For Israel | June 12, 2014 Read more: http://www.blog.standforisrael.org/articles/the-soul-of-a-young-girl-anne-franks-birthday#ixzz34SJW2vEC Follow us: @StandForIsrael on Twitter | StandforIsrael on Facebook