Remembering that Anne Frank and her family were denied US refugee status.
Yesterday's horrid executive order on refugees was even more offensive in that it fell on Holocaust Remembrance Day. It therefore seems fitting to remember that Anne Frank, and so many others, could have been saved if refugee asylum policies had been more compassionate.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/24/anne-frank-and-her-family-were-also-denied-entry-as-refugees-to-the-u-s/?client=ms-android-att-us
...."Otto Frank’s efforts to get his family to the United States ran afoul of restrictive American immigration policies designed to protect national security and guard against an influx of foreigners during time of war," Breitman wrote.
The historian told NPR in 2007 that the documents suggest "Anne Frank could be a 77-year-old woman living in Boston today – a writer."
Instead, she died at the age of 15 at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
..."It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality," Anne Frank wrote in 1944 in her diary, which helped personalize the tragedies experienced by millions of Jews. "It's a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
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are doomed to repeat it. 
What is happening now, leaves me speechless.
