I have
tried to stay out of this discussion about Anne Frank and the Holocaust.
For me, the debate is over.
I have yet to figure out why people
are even questioning if the Holocaust happened or not. I have photographs
that my uncle took when he went into some of the camps. These were never
released to the "public." He never tried to sell them. He
just took some pictures and stuck them in a box with all the other family photos
as one of many events that happened in his life. There is also a picture
of a very young Mickey Rooney (sp?) sitting on a beach laughing with some
friends. Again, this picture was also never "released" to the
public. Am I to believe that my uncle fabricated these photos and them
promptly stuck them away? If so, to what end? Was he playing a out
some subplot in a larger conspiracy?
My mother was a Lt. in the Army, a
nurse stationed in southern France. This was not a mobile unit and there
were days she would wake up and they would be behind enemy lines. While
there, she heard things, saw things...Or did she make it all up? Perhaps
she was given orders to do so as part of a bigger cover story.
I lived in Israel for a year on two
kibbutzim which was no small feat since I am half Lebanese and not Jewish.
I heard from many people of their personal experiences - saw the tattooed
numbers on their arms. Were they all part of a conspiracy? Were they
all sharing in some Great Lie? I can assure you that it didn't feel like a
lie when living on a boarder Kibbutz during a Red Alert.
Years ago, I walked through the upper rooms where Anne
Frank and her family stayed. As a teenager, I read her diary. There
are times when court documents are not needed to find the truth.
Sometimes, if we listen carefully, well can find the answers in the abundant
clues that are left behind such as in photograph showing the eyes of a young
girl who died in a concentration camp or in the ambient surroundings of a room
off of a small street in Holland.
It happened. The end.
Hilary
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