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tion makes Anne an easier figure
to identify with, explains Lindy
Bruton, an English teacher at
Birmingham Groves High School.
She calls the film "excellent for
personalizing the experience, es-
pecially for young people." Bru-
ton, who teaches a course on the
Holocaust, taped the documen-
tary when it aired on a cable tele-
vision station this summer and
used it in her class during the fall
semester as part of a chapter on
the "hidden children."
Bruton's approach to the story
of Anne Frank emphasizes "res-
cuers," people like Miep Gies who
put their own lives on the line to
protect those whom Hitler would
have murdered.
"I have a great many students
who are not Jewish and they're
not learning about this because it's
the story of their people,' " Bruton
says. Rather, it's a a story with
universal lessons, especially when
viewed through the lens of the by-
standers — those aware of the
atrocities and injustices but who
took no action.
In Bruton's class, "we relate
more to Miep. I hope that my stu-
dents, when they finish this class,
see they can be something other

than a victim."
Sid Bolkosky, a professor of his-
tory at the University of Michigan
- Dearborn who teaches about the
Holocaust, found Miep's "down-to-
earth integrity" a poignant aspect
of the film. Overall, he says, the
interviews with survivors and wit-
nesses to Anne Frank's story pro-
vided the most compelling drama
in the documentary.
"Oral histories make things
come alive for me," says
Bolkosky, who for the past 15
years has been interviewing De-
troit-area Holocaust survivors
for the U-M archives (now avail-
able on the World Wide Web). As
opposed to other films that in-
clude survivor testimony, the in-
terviews in Blair's work were
"very honest and genuine, they
had specific content ... These in-
terviews were not there because
they were pithy 30-second sound
- bites," he adds. "There wasn't al-
ways a punch line."
The lessons of Anne Frank's
experience are clear. But is her
diary emblematic of the Holo-
caust? Bolkosky thinks not. "The
diary describes this one very spe-
cific, very confined experience,"
he says. "It does not talk about

what's going on in the streets of
Holland or the other 25,000 Jews
there in hiding." Nor does it
touch on the history of the Holo-
caust, Anne's experience in the
camps or on the trains to West-
erbork and Auschwitz, he adds.
"I'm not sure any (one story) can
be emblematic."
Silow, president of CHAIM
(Children of Holocaust Survivors
Association in Michigan), views
the story from a different angle.
"It makes you aware of the
other 6 million Jews who were
also Anne Franks," he says. "It
drives home the message that
every Holocaust survivor was/is
an Anne Frank. Every survivor
went through their own person-
al horror."
More than that, for Silow,
whose mother is a survivor of
Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen,
seeing footage of those camps
"made my mother's experience,
to me, much more alive.
"Every time an important film
or documentary (about the Holo-
caust) is made, it's to be valued,
cherished," says Slow, who also
runs a monthly Yiddish film se-
ries at Sinai. "It only adds to fur-
ther education and awareness.

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