Wednesday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time - June 12th Anne Frank (1929–1945) Today is the birthday of Anne Frank. The date of her death is unknown. She died at fifteen of typhoid sometime in March 1945 in a concentration camp—her death one small contribu- tion to the Nazi dream of a world without Jews. But through the discovery and publication of her diary, her small flame has continued to burn, fulfilling her own dream: “I want to go on living after my death.” The story of Anne’s survival for two years with her family in a “secret annex” during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam is well known. In her diary she recorded the mundane details of daily life. But she also tried to record the movements of her own heart, her hopes and dreams, her moral determination to maintain the virtues that might contribute someday to a better world. Her story bears witness to a recent time in the heart of Western “civilization” when children were hunted down like vermin for extermination. At the same time she bears witness to a power stronger than her tormentors—the sacred core of a human soul that refuses to yield to darkness. “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. . . . I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness . . . and yet if I look up into the heavens I think that it will all come right. . . . In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.” —Anne Frank
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:02:11 +0000
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