Martha Graham

In 1998, TIME magazine listed her as the "Dancer of the Century" and as one of the most important people of the 20th century. Its annual report of the same year gave some indication of its effort to contribute on a global level, with its support of projects in Germany, Israel, India, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States [13]. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976 by President Gerald Ford (the First Lady Betty Ford had danced with Graham in her youth.). for an exhibition in 2003. Graham continued to work on the art up until her death in 1991 from natural causes at the age of 96. It has aimed to educate young people against racism and has loaned some of Anne Frank's papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Some critics say that even though there is little physical record of her dances, they are more memorable than her choreographic work. It provides funding for the medical treatment of the Righteous Among the Nations on a yearly basis.

Her final dance performances came in the late 1960s, and from then on she focused on choreography. Upon his death, Otto willed the diary's copyright to the Fonds, on the proviso that the first 80,000 Swiss francs in income each year was to be distributed to his heirs, and any income above this figure was to be retained by the Fonds to use for whatever projects its administrators considered worthy. When Rothschild moved to Israel and established the Batsheva Dance Company in 1965, Graham became the company's first director, groomed its first generation of dancers, and choreographed exclusive works for the Israeli group. The Fonds raises money to donate to causes "as it sees fit". One of her students was heiress Bethsabée de Rothschild with whom she became close friends. In 1963, Otto Frank and his second wife Fritzi set up the Anne Frank Fonds as a charitable foundation, based in Basel, Switzerland. In 1948, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance was established. It has become one of Amsterdam's main tourist attractions, and is visited by more than half a million people each year.

Graham's dancing life gradually came to a rest starting in the 1950s. These other buildings are used to house the diary, as well as changing exhibits that chronicle different aspects of the Holocaust and more contemporary examinations of racial intolerance in various parts of the world. This defined the new dance style, and set the standard for many choreographers to follow to this day. From the small room which was once home to Peter van Pels, a walkway connects the building to its neighbours, also purchased by the Foundation. Influenced by the Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War, the dance focussed on depression and isolation, reflected in the dark nature of both the set and costumes. Some personal relics of the former occupants remain, such as movie star photographs glued by Anne to a wall, a section of wallpaper on which Otto Frank marked the height of his growing daughters, and a map on the wall where he recorded the advance of the Allied Forces, all now protected behind Perspex sheets. "Steps in the Street" brought serious issues to the stage for the general public in a dramatic manner. It consists of the Opekta warehouse and offices and the achterhuis, all unfurnished so that visitors can walk freely through the rooms.

In 1936 came Graham's defining work, that signalled the beginning of a new era in contemporary dance. The Anne Frank House opened on May 3, 1960. In 1951 she created the dance division of the Juilliard School. Otto Frank insisted that the aim of the foundation would be to foster contact and communication between young people of different cultures, religions or racial backgrounds, and to oppose intolerance and racial discrimination. At Bennington College, in 1932, Graham founded the first-ever bachelor of arts degree in dance. On May 3, 1957, a group of citizens including Otto Frank established the Anne Frank Foundation in an effort to save the Prinsengracht building from demolition and to make it accessible to the public. The Martha Graham style is widely recognised for its trademarks contraction and release, the controlled falling to the floor, stag leaps and a developed imagery that goes with her movements. On March 23, 1990, the Hamburg Regional Court confirmed its authenticity.

Graham's performances made her famous for innovations in modern dance. Their final determination was that the diary is authentic. Her unique style of modern dance reflected the modern art of her time. They examined the handwriting against known exemplars and found that they matched, and determined that the paper, glue and ink were readily available during the time the diary was said to have been written. In 1926 Graham founded her own company, the Martha Graham Dance company. With Otto Frank's death in 1980, the original diary, including letters and loose sheets, were willed to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, who commissioned a forensic study of the diary through the Netherlands Ministry of Justice in 1986. She set out on her own, but with the constant support of Louis Horst, an accompanist whom she had got to know while training at Denishawn and who grew to be her lover and musical mentor. During their appeal, a team of historians examined the documents in consultation with Otto Frank, and determined them to be genuine.

In 1925, Graham became a dance instructor at the Eastman School of Music and Theater in Rochester, New York. The controversy reached its peak in 1980 with the arrest and trial of two neo-Nazis, Ernst Römer and Edgar Geiss, who were tried and found guilty of producing and distributing literature denouncing the diary as a forgery, following a complaint by Otto Frank. Not until age 22 (1916) did she pursue her interest professionally by enrolling in the Denishawn. The court ruled in each case that if a further complaint was made by an injured party, such as Otto Frank, a charge of slander could follow. Denis perform in the 1910s, she took an interest in dance. Two cases were dismissed by German courts in 1978 and 1979 on the grounds of freedom of speech, as the complaint was not filed by an "injured party". After seeing Ruth St. The judge ruled that if he published further statements he would be subjected to a 500,000 Deutschmark fine and a six months' jail sentence.

She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to California as a child. In 1976 Otto Frank took action against Heinz Roth of Frankfurt, who published pamphlets stating the diary was a forgery. Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991), an American dancer and choreographer, is recognized as one of the foremost innovators in modern dance. His statement corroborated the version of events that had previously been presented by witnesses such as Otto Frank. He provided a full account of events and recalled emptying a briefcase full of papers onto the floor. When interviewed, Silberbauer readily admitted his role, and identifed Anne Frank from a photograph as one of the people arrested.

He began searching for Karl Silberbauer and found him in 1963. In 1958, Simon Wiesenthal was challenged by a group of protesters at a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank in Vienna who asserted that Anne Frank had never existed, and who told Wiesenthal to prove her existence by finding the man who had arrested her. Stielau recanted his earlier statement, and Otto Frank did not pursue the case any further. The court examined the diary, and in 1960 found it to be genuine.

In 1959 Otto Frank took legal action in Lübeck against Lothar Stielau, a school teacher and former Hitler Youth member who published a school paper that described the diary as a forgery. Since the 1950s Holocaust denial has been a criminal offence in a few European countries, including Germany, and the law has been used to prevent a rise in neo-Nazi activity. Her personal testimony of the persecution of the Jews and her death in a concentration camp are blocking the way to a rehabilitation of national socialism". Continued public statements made by such Holocaust deniers prompted Teresien da Silva to comment on behalf of Anne Frank House in 1999, "for many right-wing extremists (Anne) proves to be an obstacle.

Efforts have been made to discredit the diary since its publication, and since the mid 1970s Holocaust denier David Irving has been consistent in his assertion that the diary is not genuine [12]. Otto Frank recalled his publisher explaining why he thought the diary has been so widely read, with the comment "he said that the diary encompasses so many areas of life that each reader can find something that moves him personally". Her examination of herself and her surroundings is sustained over a lengthy period of time in an introspective, analytical and highly self critical manner, and in moments of frustration she relates the battle being fought within herself between the "good Anne" she wants to be, and the "bad Anne" she believes herself to be. She is occasionally cruel and often biased, particularly in her depictions of Fritz Pfeffer and of her own mother, and Müller explains that she channelled the "normal mood swings of adolescence" into her writing.

Her writing is largely a study of characters, and she examines every person in her circle with a shrewd, uncompromising eye. Her biographer Melissa Müller said that she wrote "in a precise, confident, economical style stunning in its honesty". Commenting on Anne Frank's writing style, the dramatist Meyer Levin – who worked with Otto Frank on a dramatisation of the diary shortly after its publication [9] – praised it for "sustaining the tension of a well-constructed novel" [10], while the poet John Berryman wrote that it was a unique depiction, not merely of adolescence but of "the mysterious, fundamental process of a child becoming an adult as it is actually happening" [11]. The diary has also been praised for its literary merits.

But her fate helps us grasp the immense loss the world suffered because of the Holocaust.". Anne cannot, and should not, stand for the many individuals whom the Nazis robbed of their lives.. In her closing message in Melissa Müller's biography of Anne Frank, Miep Gies attempted to dispel what she felt was a growing misconception that "Anne symbolizes the six million victims of the Holocaust", writing: "Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million times over. After receiving a humanitarian award from the Anne Frank Foundation in 1994, Nelson Mandela addressed a crowd in Johannesburg, saying he had read Anne Frank's diary while in prison and "derived much encouragement from it." He likened her struggle against Nazism to his struggle against apartheid, drawing a parallel between the two philosophies with the comment "because these beliefs are patently false, and because they were, and will always be, challenged by the likes of Anne Frank, they are bound to fail." [8].

Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her acceptance speech for an Elie Wiesel Humanitarian Award in 1994, read from Anne Frank's diary and spoke of her "awakening us to the folly of indifference and the terrible toll it takes on our young," which Clinton related to contemporary events in Sarajevo, Somalia and Rwanda [7]. The Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg later said: "one voice speaks for six million—the voice not of a sage or a poet but of an ordinary little girl." [6] As Anne Frank's stature as both a writer and humanist has grown, she has been discussed specifically as a symbol of the Holocaust and more broadly as a representative of persecution. In her introduction to the diary's first American edition, Eleanor Roosevelt described it as "one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read". Since then, they have been included in new editions of the diary.

In 2000 the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science agreed to donate US$300,000 to Suijk's Foundation, and the pages were returned in 2001 [5]. The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, the formal owner of the manuscript, demanded the pages to be handed over. Foundation. Some controversy ensued when Suijk claimed publishing rights over the five pages and intended to sell them to raise money for his U.S.

The missing diary entries contain critical remarks by Anne Frank about her parents' strained marriage, and show Anne's lack of affection for her mother [4]. Center for Holocaust Education Foundation—announced that he was in the possession of five pages that had been removed by Otto Frank from the diary prior to publication; Suijk claimed that Otto Frank gave these pages to him shortly before his death in 1980. In 1999, Cornelis Suijk—a former director of the Anne Frank Foundation and president of the U.S. It compared her original entries with her father's edited versions, and included discussion relating its authentication, and historical information relating to the family.

In 1986, a critical edition of the diary was published [3]. Over the years the popularity of the diary grew, and in many schools, particularly in the United States, it was included as part of the curriculum, introducing Anne Frank to new generations of readers. It was followed by the 1959 movie The Diary of Anne Frank, which was a critical and commercial success. A play based upon the diary, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, premiered in New York City on October 5, 1955, and later won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The first American edition was published in 1952 under the title Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. His article attracted attention from publishers, and the diary was published in 1947, followed by a second run in 1950. He wrote that the diary "stammered out in a child's voice, embodies all the hideousness of fascism, more so than all the evidence at Nuremberg put together" [2]. She then gave it to her husband Jan Romein, who wrote an article about it, titled "Kinderstem" ("A Child's Voice"), published in the newspaper Het Parool on April 3, 1946.

He gave the diary to the historian Anne Romein, who tried unsuccessfully to have it published. Although he restored the true identities of his own family, he retained all of the other pseudonyms. He removed certain passages, most notably those which referred to his wife in unflattering terms, and sections that discussed Anne's growing sexuality. Otto Frank used her original diary, known as "version A", and her edited version, known as "version B", to produce the first version for publication.

The van Pels family became Hermann, Petronella, and Peter van Daan, and Fritz Pfeffer became Albert Düssell. She created pseudonyms for the members of the household and the helpers. Her original notebook was supplemented by additional notebooks and loose-leaf sheets of paper. She began editing her writing, removing sections and rewriting others, with the view to publication.

He mentioned the publication of letters and diaries, and Anne decided to submit her work when the time came. In the spring of 1944, she heard a radio broadcast by Gerrit Bolkestein—a member of the Dutch government in exile—who said that when the war ended, he would create a public record of the Dutch people's oppression under German occupation. She candidly described her life, her family and companions, and their situation, while beginning to recognise her ambition to write fiction for publication. Anne's diary began as a private expression of her thoughts and she wrote several times that she would never allow anyone to read it.

When asked many years later to recall his first reaction he said simply, "I never knew my little Anne was so deep". Moved by her repeated wish to be an author, he began to consider having it published. He read it and later commented that he had not realised Anne had kept such an accurate and well-written record of their time together. In July 1945, the Red Cross confirmed the deaths of Anne and Margot and it was only then that Miep Gies gave him the diary.

He was informed that his wife had died, but he also learnt that his daughters had been transferred to Bergen-Belsen, and he remained hopeful that they had survived. Otto Frank survived and returned to Amsterdam. See article: People associated with Anne Frank. The individual fates of the other occupants of the achterhuis, their helpers, and other people associated with Anne Frank, are discussed further.

After the war, it was estimated that of the 110,000 Jews deported from the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation, only 5,000 survived. They estimated that this occurred a few weeks before the camp was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945, and although the exact dates were not recorded, it is generally accepted to have been between the end of February and the middle of March. Witnesses later testified that Margot fell from her bunk in her weakened state and was killed by the shock, and that a few days later Anne also died. In March 1945, a typhus epidemic spread through the camp killing an estimated 17,000 prisoners.

Anne said they were alone as both of their parents were dead. Goslar and Blitz did not see Margot who remained in her bunk, too weak to walk. They described her as bald, emaciated and shivering but although ill herself, she told them that she was more concerned about Margot, whose illness seemed to be more severe. They said that Anne, naked but for a piece of blanket, explained she was infested with lice and had thrown her clothes away.

Anne was briefly reunited with two friends, Hanneli Goslar (named "Lies" in the diary) and Nanette Blitz, who both survived the war. Tents were erected to accommodate the influx of prisoners, Anne and Margot among them, and as the population rose, the death toll due to disease increased rapidly. More than 8,000 women, including Anne and Margot Frank and Auguste van Pels, were transported, but Edith Frank was left behind. On October 28, selections began for women to be relocated to Bergen-Belsen.

Disease was rampant and before long Anne's skin became badly infected by scabies. By day the women were used as slave labour, and by night were crowded into freezing barracks. With the other females not selected for immediate death, Anne was forced to strip naked to be disinfected, had her head shaved and was tattooed with an identifying number on her arm. Anne had turned fifteen three months earlier and was spared, and although everyone from the achterhuis survived this selection, Anne believed her father had been killed.

Of the 1019 passengers, 549 people – including all children under the age of fifteen years – were selected and sent directly to the gas chambers where they were killed. They arrived after a three days' journey, and were separated by gender, with the men and women never to see each other again. Ostensibly a transit camp, by this time more than 100,000 Jews had passed through it, and on September 2, the group was deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The members of the household were taken to the camp at Westerbork.

They collected them, as well as several family photograph albums, and Gies resolved to return them to Anne after the war. They later returned to the achterhuis, where they found Anne's papers strewn on the floor. Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman were taken away and subsequently jailed, but Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl were allowed to go. The occupants were loaded into trucks and taken for interrogation.

Led by Schutzstaffel Sergeant Karl Silberbauer of the Sicherheitsdienst, the group included at least three members of the Security Police. On the morning of August 4, 1944, the achterhuis was stormed by the Grüne Polizei following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified [1]. She continued writing regularly until her final entry of August 1, 1944. As her confidence in her writing grew, and as she began to mature, she wrote of more abstract subjects such as her belief in God, and how she defined human nature.

In addition to providing a narrative of events as they occurred, she also wrote about her feelings, beliefs and ambitions, subjects she felt she could not discuss with anyone. Anne spent most of her time reading and studying, while continuing to write and edit her diary. Some time later, after first dismissing the shy and awkward Peter van Pels, she recognised a kinship with him and the two entered a romance. Although she sometimes argued with Margot, she wrote of an unexpected bond that had developed between them, but she remained closest emotionally to her father.

Her relationship with her mother became strained and Anne wrote that they had little in common as her mother was too remote. After sharing her room with Pfeffer she found him to be insufferable, and she clashed with Auguste van Pels, whom she regarded as foolish. Anne wrote of her pleasure at having new people to talk to, but tensions quickly developed within the group forced to live in such confined conditions. In late July, they were joined by the van Pels family: Hermann, Auguste, and 16-year-old Peter, and then in November by Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and friend of the family.

All were aware that if caught they could face the death penalty for sheltering Jews. Anne wrote of their dedication and of their efforts to boost morale within the household during the most dangerous of times. They catered for all of their needs, ensured their safety and supplied them with food, a task that grew more difficult with the passage of time. They provided the only contact between the outside world and the occupants of the house, and they kept them informed of war news and political developments.

Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijl were the only employees who knew of the people in hiding, and with Gies' husband Jan Gies and Voskuijl's father Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, were their "helpers" for the duration of their confinement. The main building, situated a block from the Westerkerk, was nondescript, old and typical of buildings in the western quarters of Amsterdam. Anne would later refer to it in her diary as the "Secret Annexe". The door to the achterhuis was later covered by a bookcase to ensure it remained undiscovered.

From this smaller room, a ladder led to the attic. Two small rooms, with an adjoining bathroom and toilet, were on the first level, and above that a large open room, with a small room beside it. The achterhuis (a Dutch word denoting the rear part of a house) was a three-story space at the rear of the building that was entered from a landing above the Opekta offices. As Jews were not allowed to use public transport they walked several kilometres from their home, with each of them wearing several layers of clothing as they did not dare to be seen carrying luggage.

Their apartment was left in a state of disarray to create the impression that they had left suddenly, and Otto Frank left a note that hinted they were going to Switzerland. On July 5, 1942, the family moved into the hiding place. The family was to go into hiding in rooms above and behind the company's premises on the Prinsengracht, a street along one of Amsterdam's canals. Anne was then told of a plan that Otto had formulated with his most trusted employees, and which Edith and Margot had been aware of for a short time.

In July 1942, Margot Frank received a call-up notice ordering her to report for relocation to a work camp. For instance, she wrote about the yellow star which all Jews were forced to wear in public and she listed some of the restrictions and persecutions that had encroached into the lives of Amsterdam's Jewish population. However in some entries Anne provides more detail of the oppression that was steadily increasing. Some references are seemingly casual and not emphasized.

While these early entries demonstrate that in many ways her life was that of a typical schoolgirl, she also refers to changes that had taken place since the German occupation. Frank wrote about her school grades, her friends, boys she flirted with and the places she liked to visit in her neighbourhood. Although Frank was acquainted with a girl named Kitty, her biographers have suggested that it is more likely that she was expressing an affection for a character from the novels of Cissy van Marxveldt. She began writing in it almost immediately, and described herself and her family and her daily life at home and at school, prefacing her entries with the salutation "Dear Kitty".

Although it was an autograph book, bound with red-and-green checkered cloth and with a small lock on the front, Anne had already decided she would use it as a diary. For her thirteenth birthday on June 12, 1942, Anne received a small notebook which she had pointed out to her father in a shop window a few days earlier. Margot and Anne were excelling in their studies and had a large number of friends, but with the introduction of a decree that Jewish children could only attend Jewish schools, they were enrolled at the Jewish Lyceum. In May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands, and the occupation government began to persecute Jews by the implementation of restrictive and discriminatory laws, and the mandatory registration and segregation of Jews soon followed.

In 1939 Edith's mother came to live with the Franks, and remained with them until her death in January 1942. In 1938, Otto Frank started a second company in partnership with Hermann van Pels, a butcher, who had fled Osnabrück in Germany with his family. They were also recognised as highly distinct personalities, Margot being well mannered, reserved, and studious, while Anne was outspoken, energetic, and extroverted. Margot demonstrated ability in arithmetic, and Anne showed aptitude for reading and writing.

By February 1934, Edith and the children had arrived in Amsterdam, and the two girls were enrolled in the Montessori school. Otto Frank began working at the Opekta Works, a company which sold the fruit extract pectin, and found an apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede Square) in an Amsterdam suburb. Otto Frank remained in Frankfurt, but after receiving an offer to start a company in Amsterdam, he moved there to organise the business and to arrange accommodation for his family. Later in the year, Edith and the children went to Aachen, where they stayed with Edith's mother, Rosa Holländer.

Anti-Semitic demonstrations occurred almost immediately, and the Franks began to fear what would happen to them if they remained in Germany. On March 13, 1933, elections were held in Frankfurt for the municipal council, and Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party won. Edith Frank was the more devout parent, while Otto Frank was interested in scholarly pursuits and had an extensive library; both parents encouraged the children to read. The Franks were Reform Jews, observing many of the traditions of Judaism.

The family lived in an assimilated community of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens, and the children grew up with Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish friends. Margot Frank (February 16, 1926–March 1945) was her sister. Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889–August 19, 1980) and Edith Holländer (January 16, 1900–January 6, 1945). .

Described as the work of a mature and insightful mind, it provides an intimate examination of daily life under Nazi occupation; through her writing, Anne Frank has become one of the most renowned and discussed of the Holocaust victims. There have also been many theatrical productions, and an opera, based on the diary. It was eventually translated from its original Dutch into many languages and became one of the world's most widely read books. The diary was given to Anne for her thirteenth birthday and chronicles the events of her life from June 12 1942 until its final entry of August 1, 1944.

Convinced that the diary was a unique record he took action to have it published. At the end of the war her father, Otto, who survived, returned to Amsterdam to find that Anne's diary had been saved by Miep Gies, their beloved friend who had helped provide them food and other necessities while in hiding. They were transported to concentration camps where Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen within days of her sister, Margot, in March 1945. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed, along with the Van Pels family and a dentist, Fritz Pfeffer, who had been hiding with them.

The Netherlands was occupied by Nazi forces in May 1940, and due to the increasing persecution of Jews, the family went into hiding in July 1942 on the third floor of Otto Frank's office building. Her family had moved to the Netherlands after the Nazis gained power in their home country Germany. March 1945) was a German Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – c.

It ended with the tagline "Nazis are so uncool.". It referenced many teen film clichés (such as casting Hilary Duff as Anne, and having her dot the letter i in her diary with hearts) and included a teen pop song. The comedy show Robot Chicken ran a tongue-in-cheek sketch depicting a preview for a teen film about Anne Frank. In 2004 Robert Steadman composed a twenty-minute musical work for choir and string orchestra entitled Tehillim for Anne which commemorated Anne Frank's life with settings of three Psalms in Hebrew.

Geoff Ryman's novel 253 features an elderly Anne Frank as a passenger on the London Underground. Anne Frank Conquers the Moon Nazis, a tongue-in-cheek webcomic by Bill Mudron, about a resurrected Anne Frank rebuilt cybernetically to defend the Earth from an extra-terrestrial Nazi assault, ran online until 2003. Outkast — US hip-hop band whose track So Fresh, So Clean from their album Stankonia, makes a knowing reference to Anne Frank('I love who you are/ I love who you ain't/ You're so Anne Frank/ Let's hit the attic and hide out for two weeks'). Marc Chagall — illustrated a limited edition of The Diary of Anne Frank.

The Bernard Kops play Dreams of Anne Frank (1993) re-imagines her concealment in Amsterdam, using elements of fantasy and song. novelist whose novel The Ghost Writer imagines Anne Frank surviving the war and living anonymously as a writer in the United States. Philip Roth — U.S. Winona Ryder's character in the movie Mermaids is asked by Christina Ricci's character what she wishes for, to which she replies, 'I wish I'd known Anne Frank.'.

I wanna find Anne Frank before I bite it.'). In response to hearing a Born-again Christian's insistence that Anne Frank's virtues alone would not gain her a place in Heaven, Ani DiFranco wrote and performed Did Anne Frank Find Jesus?, a hidden track on her live album Living in Clip ('Did Jesus find Buddha? Let's all just find each other. A punk band from Boulder, Colorado named themselves Anne Frank on Crank, which by their explanation suggests they are "disenfranchised, yet somehow empowered.". It includes the songs, Holland 1945 ('The only girl I ever loved/ Was born with roses in her eyes/ And then they buried her/ Alive, one evening 1945/ With just her sister at her side/ And only weeks before the guns all came and rained on everyone') and Oh Comely ('I know they buried her body with others/ Her sister and mother and five hundred families/ And would she remember me fifty years later/ I wish I could save her/ In some sort of time machine').

Neutral Milk Hotel — US indie rock band whose 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was inspired by the lead singer Jeff Mangum's affection for Anne Frank. 5535 Annefrank — an asteroid named after Anne Frank. TIME magazine considered Anne Frank one of 100 most influential people of the 20th Century. Tanya Savicheva — a Russian girl who recorded the deaths of her family over a six month period during the Siege of Leningrad.

The Netherlands in World War II. The Holocaust. Etty Hillesum — a Jewish woman who kept a diary during the war. Corrie ten Boom.

Bergen-Belsen. Auschwitz concentration camp. Anne Frank Remembered — a documentary film made in 1995 about the life of Anne Frank.