Can Anne Frank still inspire todays teens?
April 10th was Holocaust Remembrance Day. The page on my daily Peace calendar, the one my kids rip off each passing day, had the quote as:”How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank I am the daughter of a German immigrant. Schoolyard bullies called me a Nazi when I had no idea what the word meant. So this annual remembrance comes with a bit of familial baggage. My mother was a toddler during War War II in a small town in southern Germany. She didn’t learn about the horrors of the war until she was a teen herself, when she could mentally – or cognitively – understand the scope of the tragedy. Her early memoires are of bomb shelters and American soldiers descending into her village with guns and chocolate bars. She came to the US as a nineteen year old to begin a new life, like so many others of her generation. The topic of the Holocaust was so sensitive in our household that my main education was watching documentaries
