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• 10/3/2009 12:34 AM Megan Collins wrote:
  This is amazing! Thank you so much for posting this John!
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  1. 10/3/2009 1:20 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     You're welcome!
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• 10/3/2009 6:57 AM smith wrote:
  i've been by that house on one of the canal boat tours. looks just the same today.
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  1. 10/5/2009 5:21 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     I've never been there.  Maybe one day....
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• 10/3/2009 8:33 AM Elena wrote:
  I was in that house and when there we heard church bells ringing. I wonder if the same bells were ringing when Anne Frank lived there. Think about how she must have felt.
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  1. 10/5/2009 5:26 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     I loved downtown Elyria's church bells when I was a kid - to me they symbolized beauty and grandeur.  I'm pretty sure, though, a Jewish child hiding in Nazi Germany would perceive them quite differently. 
     
     Somehow I can't help thinking of John Donne's passage about "for whom the bell tolls."
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• 10/4/2009 4:32 PM Dianne wrote:
  One of my friends from work just sent this message to me, after seeing my comment on your posting, JC:
  
  "I see you posted a message to your friend about the Anne Frank house. We were able to visit the house in Amsterdam with the kids this summer. Very cool, the house is sooo surreal, the house is empty, just the way her father wanted it kept when he went though it ---the only thing that is there is her diary, in the middle of the room under glass on a small table. Very chilling and bittersweet at the same time."
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  1. 10/4/2009 7:39 PM Elena wrote:
     The Holocaust still haunts many of us who have known survivors. I wish I could relate what Bruno Bettleheim said about this when he was in Oberlin. Anne's father survived, she didn't.
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  2. 10/5/2009 5:30 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     

     Thank you for sharing your friend's message.  I feel chills just thinking of it.

     
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