Status Updates From Anne Frank: La mia vita

"I know my various faults and shortcomings better than anyone else, but there's one difference: I also know that I want to change, will change and already have changed greatly!"

"It can hardly be said, that Hitler seized power. He demanded power, and millions of Germans handed it to him. Yet he had already and quite clearly stated his main intentions in 1925, in his book Mein Kampf. By 1939 five and a half million copies of the book had been distributed in Germany."

"refugees from Germany and Austria were to be regarded as 'undesirable aliens"

"How impersonal that word 'millions' sounds! It conceals the fact - only too easily and perhaps too readily forgotten when round figures of victims are listed - that the murdered people were all individuals with their own lives to lead"

"How impersonal that word 'millions' sounds! It con-ceals the fact only too easily and perhaps too readily forgotten when round figures of victims are listed - that the murdered people were all individuals with their own lives to lead"

“the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself”

it's actually so scary how familiar this is starting to sound