E09 致安妮：你离开了家，却成了所有人的家人

E09 致安妮：你离开了家，却成了所有人的家人

课程导读

还记得从前课本里读过的《安妮日记》吗？那个内心渴望快乐与幸福却又身处抑郁环境的小女孩给你留下了怎样的印象呢？今天的这封信，是由一个著名书店的老板 George Whitman 写给小安妮的，他在信中说了些什么呢，通过这封信，他想要传达的又是什么呢？

▍背景介绍：

《安妮日记》是德籍犹太小女孩安妮·弗兰克写的日记，是其在躲避纳粹迫害藏身密室时的生活和情感的记载。小安妮在战争中仍心怀憧憬，而不是以颓废、堕落来应对逆境。莎士比亚书店老板 George Whitman 在多年后给安妮写了封信，这封信无法寄出也无意寄出，只为人们能够铭记历史，减少伤害。

英文原文

Anne Frank (excerpts)

Le Mistral
37 rue de la Bûcherie

Dear Anne Frank,

If I sent this letter to the post office it would no longer reach you because you have been blotted out from the universe. So I am writing an open letter to those who have read your diary and found a little sister they have never seen, who will never entirely disappear from earth as long as we who are living remember her.

You wanted to come to Paris for a year to study the history of art and if you had, perhaps you might have wandered down the quai Notre-Dame and discovered a little bookstore beside the garden of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre. You know enough French to read the notice on the door - Chien aimable, Priere d'entrer.

Remember how you worried about your inconsistencies, about your two selves - the gay flirtatious superficial Anne that hid the quiet serene Anne who tried to love and understand the world. We all of us have dual natures. We all wish for peace, yet in the name of self-defense we are working toward self-obliteration.

And if the militarists who dislike negotiating the minor differences that separate nations are not under the wise civilian authority, they have the power to write man's testament on a dead planet where radioactive cities are surrounded by jungles of dying plants and poisonous weeds.

A young girl's dreams recorded in her diary from her thirteenth to her fifteenth birthday means more to us today than the labors of millions of soldiers and thousands of factories striving for a thousand-year Reich that lasted hardly more than ten years.

The journal you hid so that no one would read it was left on the floor when the German police took you to the concentration camp and has now been read by millions of people in 32 languages. When most people die they disappear without a trace, their thoughts forgotten, their aspirations unknown, but you have simply left your own family and become part of the family of man.

George Whitman