What a wonderful song, Gary. Is there any way you can let us have the melody ? I find your song particularly moving because I am right now in the middle of running a series of improvised drama sessions on Anne Frank with a class of 10/11 year olds. For most of the children, all that they are learning is new to them, and I have seen in them all the responses you describe in your song as the occupants of the secret Annexe, Miep Gies and the other helpers "live again", as in your song. A story that needs to be retold for each new generation, and related to their present-day world, for the future.

Tom Bliss (of Napper and Bliss)has written a poignant song, 'The Violin', tracing the history of his violin made in Salzburg in the 1930s, whose "silence sings loudest of all". Lyrics here.

- jeanie