Saturday, January 30, 2010
Anne Frank
One parent. That’s all it took for school officials in Culpeper County, Virginia, to pull an uncensored version of Annie Frank’s diary from classrooms, because the parent complained about a passage in which the 14-yeaar-old girl talks about her vagina.
In The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, Frank wrote: “There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it. The little hole underneath is so terribly small that I simply can’t imagine how a man can get in there, let alone how a whole baby can get out!”
The early versions of Frank’s diary, first published in 1947, were missing about 30% of the original content, thanks to the girl’s father, Otto Frank, who removed not only sexual content but also parts where she criticized her mother and other Jews hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands during World War II.
The Anne Frank Foundation published the complete diary in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of her death in a concentration camp.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
CCPS Pulls Explicit Text (by Rhonda Simmons, Star Exponent)
Taking Anne Frank Off Shelves: Indefensible (by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post)
School System in Va. Won't Teach Version of Anne Frank Book (by Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post)
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