Anne Frank

How can you ignore the story of Anne Frank? 

My family has always gone to a lot of plays; I remember being in late elementary school or early middle school and going to the play, "Anne Frank."  I asked my mom on our way there what the play would be about.  She gave me a quick synopsis of the story, which is where my fascination for the Holocaust began. 

After seeing the show, I kept thinking, "That could have been me!"  I put myself in Anne's situation.  What would it be like to give up all my friends, not go to school, eat the same things all the time, stay perfectly quiet all day everyday?  And after all that, still to have your family taken from you?  As an adolescent, I couldn't possible fathom what she went through.  But as a young girl, I felt so much sorrow for her.

While these kids won't endure what Anne Frank did, I think it is a mind opening novel.  It gives children an opportunity to put themselves in that situation and really think about what that would be like.