Anne Frank and her family’s remarkable story has been subject to several big and small screen retellings over the years. Prestige eight-part limited seriesA Small Lighthowever boldly reframes the Franks’ story for a new generation, focusing instead on Miep Gies, the young secretary who - alo...
What did Anne Frank do for fun?Question:What did Anne Frank do for fun?A Life In Hiding:Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish girl whose family fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s. Setting up in Amsterdam, the Franks were forced into hiding after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940....
But then there was Anne Frank. Her story moved me profoundly, and I couldn’t get enough of her writing. Here was a young girl, in the most horrifying of circumstances, expressing hope, resilience, and a love for life that defied her situation. Anne Frank’s words spoke to me in a w...
I didn’t write Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish to a nation she served so well, and spent her whole life making a more perfect union. But I am going to fight like hell to make it come true. No confirmation before inauguration.” ...
heartbreaking account, “First, Margot had fallen out of bed onto the stone floor. She couldn’t get up anymore. Anne died a day later. Three days before her death from typhus was when she had thrown away all of her clothes during dreadful hallucinations. That happened just before...
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I like to believe that the life of St. Nicholas was a major inspiration for Magnificent Obsession, the acclaimed 1929 novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, which twice was made into a movie. One theme of Douglas's book is the importance of giving, and other acts of kindness, without wanting or ...
“According to Paul Jacobsthal,‘Amongst the Celts the human head was venerated above all else, since the head was to the Celt the soul, centre of the emotions as well as of life itself, a symbol of divinity and of the powers of the other-world.’” As part of this worship of the ...
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northern English or Scottish roots. They do endure. Later generations are still there: always hard-working and proud, sometimes devout, seldom well-to-do, and worlds away from the country club life Ester Hobbes led when her husband was alive. They often struggle to make the best life they ...