I have been watching the bbc adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank over the net. It truly is a gut-wrenching film. I am struck, most of all, by the eloquence of this little girl; but also by the irony which must have been added by the film makers. Anne wonders, for example, whether she will be remembered in the future. The film has a poignant – I might say punctic – quality; never before has one girl spoken for an entire people, yet Anne frank, in a way, does. Speaking as a member of a minority, opressed or not, I think we would all do well to listen to her.