{"id":710271,"date":"2010-04-06T11:19:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:04:37","slug":"tweeting-anne-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/710271","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting Anne Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AnneFrank_bw.jpg\"<\/span>Proving that social media really is changing the way we
\ninteract, advocate and raise awareness, the United Nations and the Anne Frank
\nCenter USA are honoring Yom Ha’Shoah in a very new way – using Twitter. <\/p>\n

Last week, the two organizations launched a Twitter campaign
\nfor students in memory of Anne Frank, one of the Holocaust’s most recognized
\nvictims, whose compelling World War II diary is still widely used as reading
\nand educational material.<\/p>\n

The thrust of the campaign is this: Students are asked to “travel back in
\ntime” and write to Anne through 140-character tweets, essentially
\npretending to communicate with her from her family’s hiding spot in Amsterdam.
\nThe project
\nwebsite<\/a> asks, “If Anne Frank had had a way to receive Tweets while in
\nhiding and could have been communicating in secret with other young people in
\nthe world about the persecution and hatred that her family and friends were
\nexperiencing, what messages of support would you have sent Anne? What would you
\nhave told Anne that you have learned from her life and experience?”<\/p>\n

Kimberly Mann, Manager of the Holocaust and the UN Outreach Programme in the
\nDepartment of Public Information’s Outreach Division, said of the project,
\n“This exercise is meant to help young people make a meaningful connection
\nto the Holocaust through the words of a courageous young girl.”<\/p>\n

Tweets to Anne should be directed at @UnandHolocaust<\/a>; the project
\nwill last until Yom Ha’Shoah, Holocaust remembrance Day, on April 11. So what
\nwould you tell Anne Frank? Let us know in the comments or include us in our
\ntweet (@theRAC<\/a>).<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proving that social media really is changing the way we interact, advocate and raise awareness, the United Nations and the Anne Frank Center USA are honoring Yom Ha’Shoah in a very new way – using Twitter. Last week, the two organizations launched a Twitter campaign for students in memory of Anne Frank, one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YLZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811489,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710271\/revisions\/811489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}