Unit 4: Part 3 Vocabulary

Should I want to cry? Is it callous of me?

You know, Faith, there are hundreds of books on the subject. Read some of those if you must have a morbid interest in past events.

My suffering is monumental. Yours is personal.

Hence, this diary. In order to enhance in my mind's eye the picture of the friend for whom I have waited so long, I don't want to set down a series of bald facts in a diary like most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.

My sister Margot was born in 1926 in Frankfort-on-Main, I followed on June 12, 1929, and, as we are Jewish, we emigrated to Holland in 1933, where my father was appointed Managing Director of Travies N.V.

No one has a chance of evading them unless one goes into hiding.

Meanwhile, he began exploring the network of information on Jews in the camps—the refugee agencies, the daily lists, the most crucial word-of-mouth information—trying everything to get news about Margot and Anne.

In the chaos and desolation of the camps, he had learned that Edith had died shortly before the liberation.

Mr. Frank was approached with the idea of permitting the diary to be translated and published abroad. He was against it at first, but then he succumbed to the pressure on him to allow the diary a more widespread audience.

He dragged me toward a pile of snow from which protruded human shapes, torn blankets.

He had become childlike: weak, frightened, vulnerable.

“My son, they are beating me!”
“Who?” I thought he was delirious.

I speak to him of times in which memory has become a sacred duty of all people of good will—in America, where I live, or in Europe or in Germany, where you, Chancellor Merkel, are a leader with great courage and moral aspirations.

What else can we do except invoke that memory so that people everywhere will say the 21st century is a century of new beginnings, filled with promise and infinite hope, and at times profound gratitude to all those who believe in our task, which is to improve the human condition.

"After all," he said, "after the tragedy, nevertheless...there is more in the human being to celebrate than to denigrate."

The Florida Holocaust Museum will honor Holocaust survivors and liberators at the opening event for the photography exhibitions Fragments: Portraits of Survivors by Jason Schwartz and Liberators: Unexpected Outcomes by Coe Arthur Younger.

The pictures and thoughts tell of the trials and triumphs of these extraordinary men and women survivors who bravely tell their stories as first-hand testimonies of a tragic time during the 20th century.

The Museum is dedicated to teaching members of all races and cultures to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides.