When I was a senior in high school, I played the role of Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father, in the production of The Diary of Anne Frank. I had never officially acted other than as the role of class clown. Otto Frank was the only family member who survived. In the next-to-last scene, Nazi soldiers discovered where the family was hiding. Off stage you could hear pounding on the door followed by splintering wood. The audience gasped. Then, dead silence. In the last scene, some years after the war, Otto Frank returns to the house where the family was hidden. I have never experienced anything so powerful when I—as Otto—began a person-by-person ...
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