My autograph holy grail would be Anne Frank. Someone found a Frank signed Christmas card in a European antiques store a few years back, a card signed to a friend.
Interestingly, the Franks and many Jews in Germany celebrated Christmas, as it was essentially a national holiday and they were German. Sort of like people in the US wearing green and having a green beer on St. Patricks Day even though they are not Irish, Irish-descendant or Catholic. In her diary, she writes about exchanging Christmas presents in their hideout.
I'm not Jewish, but loved her book and transcribed for a local Jewish center letters from WWII era German Jews, some letter writers who escaped in time to England and the US and some who died in concentration camps. So it's all poignant and interesting to me.
Last edited by drcy; 01-01-2014 at 12:39 PM.
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