Living like Anne Frank? http://jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/living-like-anne-frank/ A holiday rental agency in Amsterdam advertised "Live like Anne Frank" during your stay. Columnist Ruth Ellen Gruber wonders: What could they have been thinking? en-us rgruber@jta.org Copyright 2008 2008-11-19T;20:36:00-05:00 Comment by Harold Khelfia Schreiberg haroldkhelf@gmail.com There are things in life that money just simply won’t buy! My first reaction was to find this utterly disgusting, vile and ignoble. I’d like to share the following lines I read in East Germany, at a memorial service held in a church in Zwickau, Saxony, written by one Hermann Hakel, in 1945: “ Jüdisches Kind” “ Ich habe keinen Namen “ Ich bin ein Jüdisch’ Kind “ Weiss nicht, woher wir kamen “ Und wo wir Morgen sind. “ Ich spreche viele Sprachen “ Verlern’ sie wiederum “ Für das, was wir ertragen “ Sind alle Sprachen stumm.” Yes, “für das, was wir ertragen, sind alle Sprachen stumm”! Maybe those who have organised this thing meant well, still this is very bad taste. There are things in life that money just simply won’t buy!
My first reaction was to find this utterly disgusting, vile and ignoble.

I’d like to share the following lines I read in East Germany, at a memorial service held in a church in Zwickau, Saxony, written by one Hermann Hakel, in 1945:

“ Jüdisches Kind”

“ Ich habe keinen Namen
“ Ich bin ein Jüdisch’ Kind
“ Weiss nicht, woher wir kamen
“ Und wo wir Morgen sind.
“ Ich spreche viele Sprachen
“ Verlern’ sie wiederum
“ Für das, was wir ertragen
“ Sind alle Sprachen stumm.”

Yes, “für das, was wir ertragen, sind alle Sprachen stumm”!

Maybe those who have organised this thing meant well, still this is very bad taste.

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