This is what a refugee looks like.
Tomorrow, June 20, 2006, is World Refugee Day.
Think about the issues. You have 20,800,000 reasons to.
ronnie
(From top left: Victor Hugo - Sigmund Freud - Joseph Conrad - Piet Mondrian - Albert Einstein - Marc Chagall - Vladimir Nabokov - Anne Frank - Madeleine Albright - Adrienne Clarkson - Rigoberto Menchú - Michaëlle Jean - Unidentified African Women)
posted by ronnie at
11:20 p.m.
2 Comments:
When was Anne Frank a refugee? Deportee isn't the same thing.
Hi, Carl,
Thanks for dropping by!
The Franks were originally from Germany and fled to Amsterdam when things got too dangerous for Jews in Germany, making them refugees. Amsterdam was where they hid in the "Secret Annex".
Anne writes in her diary about being aware - and feeling guilty - that many of her Jewish friends did not have the financial means to flee to another country and hide as they did.
They were, as you know, eventually deportees - from Amsterdam to the concentration camps where all but Otto died.
ronnie
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