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On February 23, 1944, a 15-year-old girl gazed from an attic window at the topmost branches of a tree. The tree had become a sort of friend to her, a reminder of life beyond the small space to which she was confined and one of the few things she could see from the only window that was not blacked out. In her diary that day, she wrote, “I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists…and I may live to see it, this sunshine, these cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy.” Those words represent the hope that has made their author, Anne Frank, one of the major figures of World War II and a ubiquitous symbol of optimism in the face of unthinkable darkness.
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UI students ensure representative for Jewish students
CLEO KREJCI, Iowa City Press-Citizen
April 23, 2021
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Kendall Michaels was disturbed by years of anti-Semitic incidents she witnessed as a student at the University of Iowa.
She and other Jewish students recall being asked where their “horns” are, being afraid after a local Jewish student organization was vandalized during a Shabbat dinner, and, in Michaels’ case, seeing a fellow student’s Snapchat story with a swastika and the caption “I hate all Jews.”
This school year, Michaels decided to turn to her peers for help in making the campus more welcoming for Jewish students. She found allies in the student government, and they came up with a plan to add a representative on that body who could advocate for the university’s roughly 600 Jewish students.
Kendall Michaels was disturbed by years of anti-Semitic incidents she witnessed as a student at the University of Iowa.
She and other Jewish students recall being asked where their horns are, being afraid after a local Jewish student organization was vandalized during a Shabbat dinner, and, in Michaels case, seeing a fellow student s Snapchat story with a swastika and the caption I hate all Jews.
This school year, Michaels decided to turn to her peers for help in making the campus more welcoming for Jewish students. She found allies in the student government, and they came up with a plan to add a representative on that body who could advocate for the university s roughly 600 Jewish students.