Cempaka Belanda: Anne Frank’s House Remains a Grim Reminder of Holocaust

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Anne Frank’s House Remains a Grim Reminder of Holocaust

Jakarta Globe, April 28, 2010

The house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank hid with her family until they were discovered by the Nazis in 1944 and sent to die in concentration camps. Her diary has sold more than 35 million copies. (AFP Photo)

Chilling footage of a pile of emaciated, dehumanized bodies at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp and a narrator’s voice: “One of these many victims was Anne Frank.”

This scene confronts visitors at the Amsterdam house where the Jewish teenager and her family hid from the Nazis for two years before they were discovered by German authorities and carted off to concentration camps in 1944 when Anne was 15 years old.

In the next room of the Anne Frank House museum are four large photographs of a seemingly carefree, smiling Anne before she went into hiding and started the diary that has made her a household name.

“People need concrete stories to be able to identify with the gravity of what happened,” said Hans Westra, director of the Anne Frank Foundation that operates the museum.

“Anne Frank’s story is a story that touches people. They can get an image from it, a feeling,” Westra said.

Anne, 15, and her sister Margot, 19, died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in March 1945, just a few weeks before the camp was liberated by the British Army.

Their mother, Edith, died at Auschwitz. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, was the only one to survive of the eight people who hid in the annex. He later edited Anne’s diary for publication and worked with the Anne Frank Foundation. He died in 1980 at the age of 91.

The diary, first published in 1947, has sold more than 35 million copies in 70 languages.

Pictures and interviews displayed in the house portray a mischievous, intelligent girl struggling with adolescent issues in unusual circumstances — fighting to remain positive in the face of food shortages, household squabbles and the constant fear of being caught.

“We have to whisper and tread lightly during the day, otherwise the people in the warehouse [downstairs] might hear us,” Anne wrote on July 11, 1942.

And four months before her capture: “I want to go on living even after my death!”

Fifty-five years later, in 1999, Time magazine named Anne Frank one of its Most Important People of the Century, saying Anne’s diary and courage “lent a searing voice to the fight for human dignity.”

A tour of the complex begins in the canal-side office building of Otto Frank’s company, where he worked until the family went into hiding in a secret annex in the back. Up two steep flights of stairs, one stoops through the entrance to the annex which is hidden behind a bookshelf. Walking on squeaky floorboards in the room shared by Otto, Edith and Margot Frank, visitors can see the map of Normandy on which Otto kept track of the Allied forces’ progress with drawing pins. Next to it, pencil lines on the wall measured the Frank children’s growth during the hiding period.

“I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I’m free,” reads a diary entry from Dec. 24, 1943, inscribed on the wall of the room Anne shared with family friend Fritz Pfeffer.

The walls are full of postcards, photos and magazine clippings of royals, landscapes and movie stars that Anne glued there.

The two-story annex, also shared by Auguste and Hermann van Pels and their teenage son Peter, Anne’s love interest, contains no furniture.

“Otto believed the house should be empty. He said: ‘I was taken away, my family was taken away, the furniture was taken away. The emptiness symbolizes what happened to us, and what happened in this place’,” explained Westra.

First opened on May 3, 1960, the museum marks its 50th anniversary on Wednesday with Dutch Queen Beatrix opening a diary room where all of Anne’s original writings will displayed together for the first time.

A large book in a glass case lists the more than 102,000 Dutch Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps. On page 209, the name: “Frank, Annelies Marie.”

Agence France-Presse

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