Anne Frank remembered 70 years after her death in Bergen-Belsen
- 9 years ago
Young diarist and writer Anne Frank is being remembered in the UK 70 years after her death.
The Anne Frank Trust UK has launched a social media campaign entitled #notsilent in which celebrities and members of the public are invited to record themselves reading one-minute extracts from ‘The Diary of a Young Girl.’
The book documents her time hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
Gillian Walnes from the Anne Frank Trust UK explains the idea behind the campaign: “We came up with the concept of ‘not silent’ as a social media campaign, #notsilent. The reason being that, we could have a minute’s silence to mark Anne Frank’s death, but it wasn’t appropriate. Anne Frank could not be silenced. Her voice has resonated across the generations in the 70 years since she died, and she’s inspired people throughout those generations to actually speak out in her memory, and try to make the world better, as she wanted to do, but couldn’t.”
At a ceremony at London’s British Library, school childre
The Anne Frank Trust UK has launched a social media campaign entitled #notsilent in which celebrities and members of the public are invited to record themselves reading one-minute extracts from ‘The Diary of a Young Girl.’
The book documents her time hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
Gillian Walnes from the Anne Frank Trust UK explains the idea behind the campaign: “We came up with the concept of ‘not silent’ as a social media campaign, #notsilent. The reason being that, we could have a minute’s silence to mark Anne Frank’s death, but it wasn’t appropriate. Anne Frank could not be silenced. Her voice has resonated across the generations in the 70 years since she died, and she’s inspired people throughout those generations to actually speak out in her memory, and try to make the world better, as she wanted to do, but couldn’t.”
At a ceremony at London’s British Library, school childre