When people talk about the Holocaust, they sometimes bring up the innocence that was lost in the concentration camps and the gas chambers. For many people, the defining symbol of innocence in the Holocaust was Annelies Marie Frank or for short, Anne Frank.
She is famous for the Diary of a Young Girl, which she wrote while hiding from the Nazis in the Neatherlands, before her, her family and their helpers were exposed and arrested. Anne was sent to Bergen-Belsen. She died just before the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen of typhus.
But, lately, I have wondered what kind of life she could've lived had she survived the Holocaust. Would she jsut be another Holocaust survivor (as depicted in Harry Turtledove's 'The Eighth-Grade History Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aged') or would she become a human rights activist like the great Elie Wiesel?
Frankly, I think she would've followed the latter path, based on what she wrote in her diary, but what do you think Anne Frank would've done had she survived? Would she have lived a normal life or become a form of celebrity or human rights activist?
She is famous for the Diary of a Young Girl, which she wrote while hiding from the Nazis in the Neatherlands, before her, her family and their helpers were exposed and arrested. Anne was sent to Bergen-Belsen. She died just before the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen of typhus.
But, lately, I have wondered what kind of life she could've lived had she survived the Holocaust. Would she jsut be another Holocaust survivor (as depicted in Harry Turtledove's 'The Eighth-Grade History Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aged') or would she become a human rights activist like the great Elie Wiesel?
Frankly, I think she would've followed the latter path, based on what she wrote in her diary, but what do you think Anne Frank would've done had she survived? Would she have lived a normal life or become a form of celebrity or human rights activist?