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Anne Frank:
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Lori Carr
Special to The AppleTree

growing up in such a
place,
where evil and hatred is
scrawled on everyone's
face. E

Anne Frank, what a life she
had to tell,
but she did not make it
through, she died of a
Lori Carr, 13, lives in
spell.
Wylie, Tex., where she is
A spell of hatred, of war,
an eighth-grade honor stu-
Lori Can
of disease,
dent. Lori, the daughter of
the Jews ... they died; the Germans
Dennis and Elaine Carr, and the
... they seized.
granddaughter of Morton and Alice
Anne's diary had a story to be told,
Cohen of Southfield, wrote this
of secrets and truths and deaths to
poem after a class trip to the Dallas
behold.
Memorial for Holocaust Studies.
Anne's courage and faith made me
stifle a tear,
but that does not measure up to the
pain and the fear,
the Jews went through.
I wish I could turn back the time
and undo.
Anne never lived to know of true
love or happiness
she lived in terror, in hope and in
darkness.
In the two years she was hidden,
a child's life she was forbidden.
Anne's only window to the outside
world
was an un-living diary where her
emotions were unfurled.
As she was taken away by Nazi
soldiers
she had no friends to cry on their
shoulders.
Now even in our so-called perfect
society
Editor's Note: Do you have a poem or
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to me it's the definition of a happier
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life ahead of us.
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It makes me cringe to imagine

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