Clips and stills from atrocities don’t help. Being obsessed with how terrible the news can be doesn’t help the victims and doesn’t help us. No, you’re not cruel or a monster when you look away.
The Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen died on Feb. 13, at age 96.
Miep Gies opened the “secret annex” in her employer’s office building where Nazis had just arrested her boss, Otto Frank, who ...