By Micah Halpern
I’ve Been Thinking:
Anti-Semitism can be found anyplace … even places without Jews and without
a history of Jews or Jew hatred … even in Japan.
308 copies of Anne Frank’s diary were vandalized and destroyed in
Japan. The vandals also destroyed entries on Anne Frank in reference
books. The damage was so pervasive, it was found in 11 of the 13 public
libraries in the capital city Tokyo.
Israel has just donated 300 new copies of Anne’s book “Diary of a Young Girl”.
It is without a doubt the most famous book on the Holocaust ever
published. It chronicles the life of a young girl in hiding with her
family in a tiny secret room in Amsterdam.
The journal was never completed - neighbors informed the Nazis about the
family and they were taken away to the notorious concentration camp Bergen Belsen where
Anne died.
Anne Frank’s thought and insights belie her young age and pre-War insulated
upbringing. She asks and ponders the
role of good and evil. She contemplates love and the importance of
family. More than anything, Anne yearns for freedom.
An investigation is going on in Japan. It is very clear from the
number of books destroyed that this was a carefully planned calculated attempt
to rid Japan’s public libraries and information centers of one of the most
important first hand testimonies of the Holocaust.
That is deeply disturbing.
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