#NotSilent: join the social media campaign to remember Anne Frank

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#NotSilent: join the social media campaign to remember Anne Frank

Rather than a minute’s silence, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the young writer’s death and her powerful words against prejudice, children and adults are recording themselves reading her words

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Record yourself reading one minute of Anne Frank’s words and post it on social media with the hashtag #NotSilent

Anne Frank didn’t get to see the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The young Jewish Dutch girl died in that camp, aged 15, but left behind an indelible account of her life, The Diary of a Young Girl. The exact date of her death in 1945 is unknown, but today has been chosen to commemorate its 70th anniversary, coinciding with the date of the liberation of the camp.

The commemoration is taking a rather unusual shape. “Because her voice could not be silenced, we decided that one minute of silence wouldn’t be as appropriate” as a minute of people reading out her words, explains Gillian Walnes, co-founder and vice-president of the Anne Frank Trust UK, who have organised the campaign with Penguin Random House, the publishers of the diary.