![]() ![]() ![]() Her diary is her legacy it survived when she did not, and Dear Kitty has been read by many thousands who have wept for its young author. In the literary world of the Holocaust, Anne Frank is a name known to most of us. Reading about them can spark an interest, perhaps a thirst, to know more, so that, eventually, we may make informed opinions. Just to make my position clear: I cannot understand how anyone can deny the Holocaust and I believe that succeeding generations should be reminded of it in order that we may learn from the mistakes of our predecessors, and to avoid inflicting similar inhumanities in the future – we can live in hope.īooks can play a huge part in providing cultural capital, in opening our eyes to the drama of real life, to the rights and wrongs, to events and circumstances which we (thankfully) do not experience first-hand. ![]() January 2020 sees the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau when the horrors of the Holocaust were, at last, revealed to the world. ![]()
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