Was Anne Frank Murdered at Auschwitz?

The Monday, October 24, 2011 Philadelphia edition of the free commuter daily newspaper Metro contained a 300 word article by Bruce Walsh about a Center City Philadelphia theater’s performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” In an article about the single most famous child victim of the Holocaust the reporter failed to use the word Holocaust. If that was not enough, he also failed to use the words Germany, Nazi, Hitler, Amsterdam or Auschwitz or the phrase World War Two. I have written about Metro’s biases and gaffs many, many times since 2009 but even this article is shocking. There are three times references are made to Jews but Anne Frank’s story is given no historical context. How did this get pass Metro’s editors? What is reader left to assume the play is about?

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