Comments on: Review: Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol http://birdbrainbb.net/2010/01/08/review-anne-frank-her-life-in-words-and-pictures-by-menno-metselaar-and-ruud-van-der-rol/ where imagination takes flight Wed, 23 May 2012 02:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: alitareads http://birdbrainbb.net/2010/01/08/review-anne-frank-her-life-in-words-and-pictures-by-menno-metselaar-and-ruud-van-der-rol/#comment-1267 alitareads Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:34:13 +0000 http://birdbrainbb.net/?p=4116#comment-1267 When I was in Jr. High I went on a school exchange trip to Germany and during part of the trip we visited two concentration camps. One was a camp that Anne Frank was at for a while and now houses a large memorial display of pictures of the many victims. While I don't remember many details of the camp, I'll never forget the feeling I got, knowing that so many had been killed there. So haunting. And then we spent the afternoon at an amusement park. Not the best planned day. It's so easy to think that these were fictional people. Things like that memorial and these books help remind us that they were indeed real and that their memories need to be honored. Great review. I'll need to look for this book. When I was in Jr. High I went on a school exchange trip to Germany and during part of the trip we visited two concentration camps. One was a camp that Anne Frank was at for a while and now houses a large memorial display of pictures of the many victims. While I don’t remember many details of the camp, I’ll never forget the feeling I got, knowing that so many had been killed there. So haunting. And then we spent the afternoon at an amusement park. Not the best planned day.

It’s so easy to think that these were fictional people. Things like that memorial and these books help remind us that they were indeed real and that their memories need to be honored.

Great review. I’ll need to look for this book.

]]> By: Jenny http://birdbrainbb.net/2010/01/08/review-anne-frank-her-life-in-words-and-pictures-by-menno-metselaar-and-ruud-van-der-rol/#comment-1266 Jenny Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:44:40 +0000 http://birdbrainbb.net/?p=4116#comment-1266 I read her diary when I was quite young, and I didn't find out for years that she had later been sent to a concentration camp and killed. (Seems weird my copy didn't say so, or maybe I just didn't pay attention.) I nearly started crying when I did find out. Thanks for the review - this is one I'd really like to try sometime. I read her diary when I was quite young, and I didn’t find out for years that she had later been sent to a concentration camp and killed. (Seems weird my copy didn’t say so, or maybe I just didn’t pay attention.) I nearly started crying when I did find out. Thanks for the review – this is one I’d really like to try sometime.

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