And in the present moment, adults too have been returning to Frank’s example - both as a tool of instruction for the youth of 2020 and a touchpoint for themselves. Today, as kids experience a fragment of what Frank did - indefinite confinement and an unclear future - it’s easy to understand why their attachment to her story might intensify.įor many, a childhood connection to Frank lasts well into adulthood. Teenagers are teenagers and she wrote about those experiences.” “It doesn’t matter what religion, what ethnicity. “They see her as a peer and that’s one of the reasons why Anne Frank’s story is such a fabulously effective introduction to the stories and lessons of the Holocaust,” said Elisa Rapaport, chief operating officer at the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in New York City. Young people like Roth and Ady, who are often first exposed to Anne Frank in a school setting, often relate to her clear, emotionally vivid descriptions of common childhood feelings and experiences. I almost grunted a short, blunt oof, right then and there.”Īfter an eight-year-old San Francisco girl named Ady read a biography of Frank, The New York Times reported, she realized “that she, too, was living through what would soon become history” and began keeping a diary of her own. For some reason that made me think of Anne Frank. In a March 20 Slate article, in which the magazine’s writers asked their children how they felt about the pandemic, nine-year-old Eliza Roth said, “My dad told me that people in the future would learn about the coronavirus in school. It’s a variation of a joke I heard a fair amount growing up: When someone was emphasizing the need to make as little noise as possible, they inevitably dropped Anne Frank’s name.īut alongside the cynical references to Frank are plenty that, in their earnestness, shed light on how we train young minds to think of Frank. Who gon be anne frank 2.0 and write a diary abt corona?!?! I feel like the modern day Anne Frank except Hitler is the Coronavirus and my diary is Twitterĭebating on starting a coronavirus journal so I can be the modern day Anne Frank On Twitter, many have turned Frank’s predicament into an easy joke.
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