... Spielberg's hauntingly real Schindler's List to Mark Herman's heart-wrenching The Boy with the Striped Pajamas. I have read Night, Elie Wiesel's harrowing memoir of his experience as a prisoner of Auschwitz, and Anne Frank's diary chronicling her fears and her dreams while praying to escape the wrath of Nazism. All these accounts of the Holocaust brought me one step closer to understanding the events that lead up to and populated this tragedy, however ... it wasn't until I visited Yad Vashem that I first realized that truly understanding the Holocaust is more than learning ... ...

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... were not spared. A poignant feature of the literary version of Anne Frank's Diary centred around the point that Anne's childish innocence was to be shattered by the events of the world around her. This feature was perhaps lost on audiences along with the realities of life in hiding as the use of cinematic devices, particularly the highly emotive soundtrack clearly resulted in romanticising the hiding' experience. (Nixdorf, 2003. pg 7 and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). In recent times films have become ... more graphic in their depiction of the events ... ...

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