Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Resilience and the Holocaust

I recently saw the Old Port Theater production of Yours Anne, the Story of Anne Frank and her family. As a father of a daughter I love dearly, I was especially moved by the ability of the actor, Christians Luening, who played Anne’s father, to express, mainly through his facial expressions, the kaleidoscope of emotion that he felt in trying to save his family from the horror of the Holocaust. Unfortunately, Mr. Frank was the only member of his family to survive. His family and friends died not because they were not resilient. They were. But hate and fear can still destroy the most resilient. Those who survive, all of us, must be resilient in the struggle to conquer the fear and the hate in our communities which are the seeds of racism, intolerance and the Holocaust. In this struggle - God knows it is one - we should try to remember Anne’s words, “People are good at heart.”

Ron Breazeale, Ph.D.
Author, Duct Tape Isn’t Enough
http://www.reachinghome.com/

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