A birthday that never happened brings reflections on the uses and misuses of history

Anne Frank would have celebrated her 75th.

We can imagine her as a gray-haired great-grandmother, being toasted Saturday by family and friends in her Amsterdam home. Her older sister, Margot, is there. So are a son and a daughter, three grandchildren and two great-grandkids.

Anne Frank is a widow in this scenario, her beloved husband of four decades having passed away. She still faithfully keeps a diary, a habit since her teenage years, although she now types it into the desktop computer that was a birthday gift from the family in 2002.

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Source: Stormfront