![]() ![]() Because her story has been sentimentalized and thatįamous sentence about believing in spite of everything that people are good at heart has been wrenched out of context and trumpeted on stage and everywhere else as a message of healing and hope, there are many who say children should not The search for an upbeat, hopeful message is what lies behind the longstanding controversy about ''Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,'' a controversy that was revived last year. Hould children today read about the Holocaust? Won't it shock and horrify them, give them nightmares, turn them off reading? Exciting escape adventure is one thing,īut what about the truth? Will it help them to think about their own moral choices as potential perpetrators, victims, bystanders? Will they connect that genocide with other accounts of what racism can do, through history and now? As moreĪnd more states mandate the teaching of the Holocaust in schools, and as the number of children's books on the subject has grown to a flood, these have become serious issues. Anita Lobel looks back on a childhood dominated by the specter of the Nazis. ![]()
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