{"id":8,"date":"2007-07-30T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/bosn\/2007\/07\/30\/anne-frank-house\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T01:35:00","slug":"anne-frank-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/2007\/07\/30\/anne-frank-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Frank House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>Visiting the Anne Frank House has always been emotional for me. This visit was no different.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span>I am not old enough to have any first hand memories of the second world war, everything I know has been passed down to me either through books or movies.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span>I first read the Diary of Anne Frank almost 25 years ago, it was very moving then, especially as I was student teaching at the time and I was working with a grade 6 class. They were all Christian and had no direct knowledge of what persecution based on religion was like.<\/span> <span><\/p>\n<p>I knew then that if I had the chance I wanted to see the secret annex in Amsterdam. I wanted first hand knowledge of what it was like during the war; or as close as possible to first hand.<\/span> <span><\/p>\n<p>Walking through the secret passage and seeing how small the space was and knowing that there were 8 people living there made the spaces even smaller.<\/p>\n<p> Reading the notes and the information on the walls and tables brought everything to life.<\/p>\n<p> The cramped spaces, lack of food, and the constant fear of being discovered had a major impact on those hiding. Anne makes that clear. It becomes clearer when you are standing in the same room she sat in to write; when you look out the same windows she looked out through and listen to the same bells she listened to.<\/span> <span><\/p>\n<p>Anne died a few short weeks of her camp being liberated.<\/span> <span><\/p>\n<p>The Anne Frank House forces me to remember that over a million children were part of the 6 million Jews that were killed during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align='center'><big><b><span>A generation lost.<\/span><\/b><\/big><\/div>\n<p align='left'><span>A bit of a side note&#8230;..The Dutch seem to have a storage way of celebrating&#8230;.<\/span> <span><\/p>\n<p>I was at The Anne frank House today with a school group of 12 year old kids.<\/span> <span>This was a class trip to celebrate the end of the school year and their \u201cgraduation\u201d from elementary school. A celebration&#8230;at the Anne Frank House?<\/span> <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting the Anne Frank House has always been emotional for me. This visit was no different. I am not old enough to have any first hand memories of the second world war, everything I know has been passed down to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/2007\/07\/30\/anne-frank-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anne-frank","category-world-war-2","category-world-war-ii","category-ww-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}