Earl R. Merrill: What If You Broaden Anne Frank's Story As About Oppressed People Rather Than Jewish People?

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

What If You Broaden Anne Frank's Story As About Oppressed People Rather Than Jewish People?

The real Anne was unequivocal about the particular Jewishness of her suffering and about her perpetual otherness. She wrote, “We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or just . . . representatives of any other country for that matter, we will always remain Jews, but we want to, too.”