“This cruelty too will end”

June 12, 2020 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | Uncategorized | 0 Comments |

Anne Frank (born 12 June 1929) would have been 91 today.

It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquillity will return once more. In the meantime, I must hold on to my ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I’ll be able to realize them.” (15 July, 1944)

Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Amsterdam (NL), Anne-Frank-Huis — 2015 — 7185” / CC BY-SA 4.0)

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