On THIS LINK on my blog, you can read more about the Boer War. You will find some Boer War art, poetry and a lengthy entry about the war with many links to other sites too.
Today I was inspired by Rosalind due to her post about the concentration camps during the British/Boer-War in the late 1800’s-early 1900’s…I’ve got a book about the concentration camps and it was so sad to read how those people were treated and the circumstances they lived in! My mum has had a relative – Dorie Burger – that was there and in this book she was also quoted where she mentioned who died again in the camp and how they were rationed on food and that the food wasn’t enough. According to her, many children were still hungry at night and couldn’t sleep due to insufficient food. You just feel like crying when you read the book!
Rosalind’s post also immediately reminded me about the Jews and the holocaust and my very own first English “story”-book… Anne Frank’s diary… as a birthday present when I was 12. My birthday is one day before Anne’s birthday – 12th June – and that made the book – as a child – even more special. I’ve always been interested in War-books, fiction as well as non-fiction. I’ve blogged before about other books written about wars…the Cambodian war… the war in Kosovo…Today, when you see the word “Holocaust” it usually refers to this time in which the German Army systematically killed nearly 6 million Jews. People need to learn about the Holocaust and the reasons why it happened. Some say it never happened at all, but we know it did because there are too many witnesses and survivors who lived to tell the world about those darkest of times. Click HERE to visit the site about Anne Frank and there’s a link to the museum.

It might not seem the most obvious material for a song-and-dance number, but the Diary of Anne Frank will take centre stage next month when a Spanish musical based on the most famous book about the Holocaust opens in Madrid.
“When I first came here they [the foundation] had this doubt, about how somebody can do a musical of a story like this,” said Alvero. “The thing we want to do is … through the music, to understand the story better,” he said.
Once the foundation had given its permission, the hunt for actors capable of mixing the sombre nature of the material with the high energy of a musical began. Castillo said she felt honoured to be playing such an important role, and that there were things the two had in common.
The Franks moved from Germany to Holland in 1933, when Anne was four. Castillo’s mother fled from Cuba when Isabella was young, and they lived in hiding in Belize before immigrating to Miami.
Please click HERE for the original article about the musical.
Image: Gardenofpraise
Today if you visit the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp you can see a memorial to Anne Frank and her sister Margot.
This picture shows the streetside view of the building. Otto Frank’s offices were at the front of the building and the hiding place was at the rear.
The hiding place became known as the Secret Annex. It was located at 263 Prinsengracht. The Frank family would occupy two rooms on the first floor. A week later Mr. and Mrs. Van Pels and their son would move into the two rooms on the second floor. From Peter’s tiny room they could access the attic where food was stored. There was a small bathroom on the first floor. Images: gardenofpraise.com
This is what my book looks like…and the next book is a picture book which I’ve bought for my primary y5/6 kids… it’s really an easy book for them to understand Anne’s story.
This book is one of many on my bookshelf that I still need to finish reading…it’s about a gripping account of how a group of young children who, when forced into isolation by the Nazi occupation of their home town in Czechoslovakia, refused to be silenced and fought back by creating and circulating their own newspaper called Klepy (which means gossip). The “Underground Reporters” chronicles — the lives of the young people who contributed to the newspaper. On the blurb it says: “…They founded a secret newspaper that was to become an inspiration to the Jews of Budejovice, uniting them and giving them something to fight for and be proud of. These young people were the Underground Reporters and this is their story.”
This book seems to be a great book to read, I’ve just ordered it from Amazon. You can read the review I’ve found on the internet.
Review from this site:historicalnovelsociety.org/london-conference.htm
No Place for a Lady
Ann Harries
The thrilling and sweeping new novel from the award-winning author of
‘Manly Pursuits’
It is the turn of the twentieth century and war is razing the Boer Republics of South Africa to the ground. Kitchener’s army has intensified its most barbarous campaign: to burn down the homes of thousands of obstinate Boers, forcing a desperate migration to disease-ridden concentration camps. Yet the vastly outnumbered Boers still will not surrender to the British.
In the midst of these horrors is a group of women, each fighting their own battle. Sarah Palmer is an angelically pretty nurse who arrives from England with her madcap friend Louise. Their relationship is threatened when Sarah falls deeply in love with a sick Colonial trooper of humble origin as Louise cannot help but become painfully jealous of her friend’s natural magnetism and beauty. And then arrives the dynamic Englishwoman, Emily Hobhouse, who has come to bring succour to the destitute and dying women and children and to stir the consciences of Britain over the holocaust of the camps.
As their dramas unfold, so too does the history of the war. It was intended to be a quick annexation of the Boer Republics but it turned in to a protracted, savage conflict. Harries shows a depth of knowledge and compassion in her writing; the involvement of the blacks who were promised the vote if they joined the British side, and the injustices and deep inequalities in South Africa which lie at the heart of the story. ‘No Place for a Lady’ is historical fiction at its finest. Ann harries has drawn unforgettable characters and made the period with all its complexities come vividly alive. This is a thrilling, beautifully written, and utterly compelling novel.
Ann Harries was born and educated in Cape Town, where she worked in township schools and community centres. On moving to England she became active in the anti-apartheid movement. The author of the acclaimed Manly Pursuits, she divides her time between the Cotswolds and South Africa.
‘History is ingeniously rewritten in this witty and engaging novel.’
J.M. Coetzee
‘Outstanding…Funny, well observed and beautifully written.’
Sunday Times
‘Brilliantly funny and inventive…Enjoyable and vivid throughout… I haven’t turned any pages faster this year than I have turned these.’
Spectator
‘A hugely ambitious novel that takes on an impressive range of themes, from history, colonialism and racism to science, evolution, sexual repression and betrayal…Both an entertaining read and a richly evocative portrait of that era.’
Observer
What a wonderful post, I agree we should not forget.
thank you for this post, cheers
Hi Rosalind… yes, sad things like these shouldn’t happen ever again!
Hi Dancesister…welcome here and I’m glad you’ve enjoyed it!
I saw The Anne Frank story…. the film as a youngster !! i have not been able to watch it again !! its so moving, although i knew the outcome so… so wished for her to escape !! live !! seeing pic on your page, of original book !!! it survives ? so poignant , i must steel myself and try to read it…
Ek het nou dadelik die Anne Frank vir Skoorlief deurgegee – sy het dit met ‘n klas behandel, en hulle was redelik vasgevang in die storie.
Ek is stadig besig om ‘n blog te bou oor die ABO en daarna, maar dit vat maar tyd. Wat mens nie altyd het nie.
Thanx dus vir die info – dis altyd lekker om interessanthede raak te loop.
Hi Tony… do read it…you will definitely enjoy it!
Hi Skoor!
Dit bly ‘n indrukwekkende verhaal! Sterkte met die ABO blog en laat my die link weet! Ek stel BAIE belang in die ABO!!! agv familie-bande ens. Ek het so pas ‘n boek – wat afgeskryf is hier in ‘n Britse skool – gekry oor die Boere-oorlog. Het hom begin lees…ek het op die net vir hom gesoek, hy moet uit druk wees, want ek kon hom nie kry nie. Nogal interessant. Kan jou die titel/outeur gee as jy belangstel!
the story of anne frank always inspired me.only book that made me to cry and think at the same time.thanx 4 this post.
Hi Arjun… tks for your visit and comments.. i do agree with you!
Ek het die dagboek van Anne Frank seker al 3 keer gelees. Ek dink ek moet tog ook maar die boek vir my aanskaf want ek sal hom nog ‘n paar keer kan lees. Haar verhaal het my nog altyd aangegryp. Ons het by die Anne Frank museum verby gevaar met ‘n kanaalboot toe ons in Amsterdam was 2 jaar gelede, maar ons tyd was baie beperk en ons het ongelukkig nie die museum besoek nie. Ek sal tog eendag as ek ooit weer die geleentheid kry, die museum wil besoek. Dankie vir die inskrywing oor haar!!
Hi Kaalvoetkind..en Welkom hier! ja, ek het hom ook seker al 3 keer gelees! as kind en later weer! 😉 Ek wil graag Holland toe gaan en my oupa se geboorteplek opsoek en DAN…haar museum! 🙂
sorie, te min dae, te baie dinge, stuur die naam v d boek asb? Ek stel altyd belang!
Hi Skoor…die titel is… “Battles of the Boer War” deur W. Baring Pemberton, 1964 gepubliseer.
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Nee ek ken dit nie, maar ek mag dit dalk eendag iewers raakloop – ek krap graag in ou winkels rond, of tussen tweedehandse boeke, op soek na sulke juwele.
Thanx 😉
Sterkte… klink soos ek…altyd tussen die boeke… as manlief my iewers soek…as ons winkels toe gaan…sal hy my veel eerder in die boekwinkels kry as in klerewinkels..lol!
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I think Anna Frank is a model for other children to learn about her.
Hi Anna…she surely is…
Gesien? http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2310983,00.html
hi Roer…THANKS..!!! a zillion…will blog it tomorrow!!! you’re a star man!!
Nikita wat ‘n goeie inskrywing!
Dankie ook vir die links! Ek het ook Battles of the Boer War, het dit in ‘n tweedehandse winkel raak geloop. Ek koop altyd tweedehandse geskiedenis boeke!! 🙂
hi Wipneus…Baie dankie! Jy klink soos ek! Ek raap al wat ‘n geskiedkundige boek op of enige iets wat soos Afrika lyk of ruik! ek het hier ‘n paar boeke (weereens geskiedenis) wat Wilmie hier aangebring het!! Sy help die Bib-juffrou en die het boeke afgeskryf en dan kan sy vat wat sy wil he…en soos haar ma…(appel val nie ver van die boom..:) raap sy alles op wat sy kan en ek het hier nog ‘n resepte-boekie gescan…tweede-wereld-oorlog reseppies met die mooiste foto’s van daardie tyd ook, noudat ek hier daaroor skryf, onthou ek dit weer! Ai, waar’s die tyd vir alles wat mens wil blog! Sy’t ook ‘n boek oor die Boere-oorlog hier aangebring…geweet ek sal dit wil he!
Ek raak sommer die moer in as ek sien hoe hulle die geskiedenis probeer verdraai! Kyk na die skaker hieronder:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=188119
To say that the concentration camps were Afrikaner propaganda is a bit far-fetched – there are too many descriptions of the hell camps from both Boer and English side. I bet this so-called Professor Stanley would not dare call the Nazi-concentration camps propaganda but the Boer concentration camps are fair game! I bet she feels enormously guilty to still bother with this history a 100 years later. She needs to face up to the facts that some of her people were responsible for these atrocities.
hi Molly, dankie vir die link, my bloed het nou behoorlik gekook toe ek daar gaan lees het en sommer ‘n “stink” boodskap gelos.
Read Mark WEBER, who unveiled falsifications of Anne FRANK propaganda…
This essay is adapted from a piece written in June 2000 as the preface to a recent Italian edition of “Is the Diary of Anne Frank Genuine?”
Comments:
¤ […] history. Of course, Holocaust fans can also get their kicks by reading tales like The Diary of Anne Frank or Elie Wiesel‘s latest blockbuster. But as we all know, these texts aren’t exactly […]
¤ Keep Investigating!
¤ Financial Swindler Jews betrayed whole World. Their average; they publish the school books, too; like Swedish History formates by BONNIERS. All the School children systematically brainwashed by the Anna FRANK-similary satanic lies… All the libraries pumped by such ammunition, so whole generation poisoned…
¤ Actually, mind control instruments ar not only chips or medical tabletes.. Anne FRANK-falsery books are exatly most effective instruments…Military Mafia U$rael need F-16 JAS Airplanes&Shikorsky helicopters to eliminate people; but in Scnadinavia for instance it’s enough publishing faked books. It result exatly smilarly effects on the oppressed peoples.. Maybe Swedish people is most eliminated people in the World because only you fing Zionist prpganada books both in the schools and libraries… How did they be so succéssfull yif they only used the air-guns on this medial-druged Swedish mass?
¤ Screamy! Maybe it’s real this virus drive Satan’s Synagogues!
¤ If somebody violate somebody with a scary machine, it’s body keeps in prison for many years. If Jews violate the consciousnes whole humanbeing by such propaganda machines so they get Nobel-Oscar-Academy etc fraud prizes instead of been charged or paying compensation .
¤ What a wonderfool world!
Lie paste-copy on another one paste-.copy; so it’ll be nomineed to another one fraud prize…
Hi Molly!
Welcome to my blog and thank you for your message. Mark Weber is an American holocaust denial. I think that already says one thing: I’m not interested in HIM or what HE says…full stop. Thank you for your effort for putting the message together, but for anyone in denial of the holocaust, I feel NOTHING for that person or what he SAYS. Sorry. That’s my view and I feel strongly about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weber
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The Jewish holocaust never took place. Many of the so called survivors were caught out to be frauds in recent years. The real holocaust were perpetrated against the German people at the end of WW2. Also the firebombing of civilians in Dresden and many other German cities. So many Jewish concentration camp “survivors” received a compensatory pension that one has to wonder who did the Germans kill then.
The diary of Ann Frank is also fraudulent because most of it was written with a ballpoint pen many years before the ballpoint pen even existed. What about the 60 million Christians who were brutally murdered by the Jews in Soviet Russia. Are they not worthy of acknowledgement and commemoration? If you don’t believe me I dare you to do your own research.