Word: belsen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reagan's otherwise happy childhood is when he comes home one night to find his father passed out, drunk, on the snow of their front yard, his arms spread out as if he were crucified. At the end of the book, Morris charts Reagan's trip to Bergen-Belsen, and the photographs of the white corpses shown upon a black background in cruciform position that he saw at the entrance to the field...
...hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me." She had no idea how widely that support and comfort would extend, though her awareness of the power in her hands seemed to grow as time passed. One year before her death from typhus in the Bergen-Belsen camp, she wrote, "I want to be useful or give pleasure to people around me who yet don't really know me. I want to go on living even after my death...
...after the war was over, my mother married Otto Frank. They had both lost so much. She and I had survived Auschwitz. His life was a mess. He talked continuously of Anne. They had been very close. He had heard from friends about her last days in Bergen-Belsen--how she didn't think her parents had survived, how her sister Margot got typhus and died, and that Anne, thinking she was the only one left, just gave...
...voice-over by Anne just as she and her family are being seized by the Nazis. The juxtaposition is ironic, ambiguous, chilling. Nor does the rewritten last scene offer any reassurance. Otto Frank, revisiting their hiding place after the war, describes the final sighting of Anne in Bergen-Belsen: "Anne's friend Hanneli sees Anne through the barbed wire, naked, her head shaved, covered with lice. 'I don't have anyone anymore,' she weeps. A few days later Anne dies...
Herzog, a British soldier during World War II, was one of the first to witness the atrocities of the Holocaust in their liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp...