Anne Frank gives for everything

Patricia Kolesnicov

08/04/2021 3:00

• Clarín.com

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Updated 08/04/2021 3:00

The fact that Anne Frank appears in a choreography and all music as an illustration - as happened in Showmatch - is not the first striking thing that happens with the girl who wrote a diary during the two years she was locked up, hiding from the Nazis.

It is not the most striking but perhaps it is the most banal, or compete for that position.

That incident ended with the

Showmatch

team

touring the Center in honor of the young Jewish woman in Buenos Aires.

Talk, apologies and everything is finished, they say at the

Anne Frank Center

.

If it served to educate, okay.

But it is not the only thing.

There are

Anne Frank

comics

, books and even a series that imagines how the story would have been if instead of a newspaper the girl had had a camera.

The Anne Frank series on You Tube recreates her experiences in the "Secret Annex" from the point of view of the protagonist of the famous "Diary".

The series was produced by the

Anne Frank House in Amsterdam

and this Wednesday, August 4, a second part begins.

It is not just any date: on August 4, 1944

the Nazis found the hiding place

 and the Frank family were taken prisoner.

The end is known: only the father, Otto, survived.

Ana

died of typhus

in Bergen-Belsen.

What is the series based on if the diary could not show anything after the capture?

In other sources, such as

After the Secret Annex

, by Bas von Benda-Beckmann.

It is that history is that of many, and it continued for many.

In our country, the Ana Frank Center

is training Buenos Aires police

in Human Rights and working with prisoners, who are also locked up (although for other reasons).

They encourage them to write.

What do the prisoners have to do with the 15-year-old girl?

"The figure has a great impact on young people deprived of liberty, it helps them to think about their stories, she did something with her confinement", says Héctor Shalom, director of the Center.

Natali Cohen Vaxberg.

The Israeli artist uses the figure of Anne Frank.

In Israel there is another woman who takes

Anne Frank

and does it in a mocking tone.

He does not make fun of the girl, of course, but harshly criticizes the policy of the State of Israel towards the Palestinians.

Her name is Natalí Cohen Vaxberg and she is an artist.

With a black bag and a defiant tone, Natalí goes to the border with

Gaza

, looks at the soldier and says: "I want to go in to distribute newspapers.

I am Anne Frank

."

The soldier is puzzled.

Or he stands in front of a Palestinian woman and says: "Write a diary,

one day this will be known

, I will tell you, I am

Anne Frank

."

He is equating the life of the Palestinian woman with that of the young victim of the Holocaust.

It is harsh, it is controversial, it is not banal.

PK

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