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Maaleh Adumim, West Bank, Palestinian Territories — The Middle East (West Asia)
 

Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorial

 
 
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Photographed by Jerry Klinger
1. Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorial
Inscription. “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. – Anne Frank”

“Of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, 1939-1945, 1.5 million were children. Anne Frank was one of them.”

“Children are the ultimate victims of adult hatred, bigotry, and ignorance.”

(Hebrew not transcribed)
 
Erected 2020 by Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation.
 
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: DisastersWar, World II. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list.
 
Location. 31° 46.631′ N, 35° 18.373′ E. Memorial is in Maaleh Adumim, West Bank. It can be reached from Derech Kedem Street. Adjacent to the Maaleh Adumim high school. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 40 Derech Kedem Street, Maaleh Adumim, West Bank, Palestinian Territories. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in Asia, West Asia, the Middle East, The Levant, and in a coastal Mediterranean country. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire,

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a British Mandate, and the Roman Empire.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Rehavam Observation Point (approx. 6 kilometers away in Israel); Paran Monastery (approx. 6.1 kilometers away); Gethsemane (approx. 6.3 kilometers away in Israel); Absalom's Tomb (approx. 6.4 kilometers away in Israel); Jehoshaphat's Cave (approx. 6.4 kilometers away in Israel); Meeting place of three fortification elements (approx. 6.6 kilometers away in Israel); Lions' Gate / שער האריות (approx. 6.6 kilometers away in Israel); Preserved buildings of the First Temple Period (tenth-sixth centuries BCE) (approx. 6.6 kilometers away in Israel).
 
More about this memorial. It is the first Anne Frank themed memorial to recognize that children are the victims of adult hatred, ignorance and victims. It is the first memorial of this type that will be placed globally
 
Regarding Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorial. Anne Frank is not a fading child in the rear-view mirror she is the child in front of us that society can
Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Jerry Klinger
2. Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorial
become if it does not remember Anne was a child. The violence Anne, and tragically too many children experience as scapegoats for adult anger, hate, bigotry, frustration, and ignorance, steer the road for tomorrow. Children are weakest, the innocents, the easiest to injure.

Children, if they should live past being victimized today, will be the adults of tomorrow. They will be tomorrow.
 
Also see . . .  The Anne Frank Children’s Human Rights Memorial (Times of Israel, May 20, 2021). (Submitted on June 12, 2021.)
 
Additional keywords. Children's human rights, Holocaust
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 12, 2021. It was originally submitted on June 4, 2021, by Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach, Florida. This page has been viewed 261 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on June 4, 2021, by Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach, Florida. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
 
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Aug. 28, 2026