How Anne Frank Turned Up At Occupy

'The strangeness of an urban park crammed with people gleefully chanting words about premature burial notches up considerably when one knows—as anyone familiar with Mangum would have—that this is a song about Anne Frank. The lyrics don’t track exactly with history (Anne and her sister Margot likely died of typhus before they were buried in a mass grave outside the confines of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp) but their deaths did indeed come just weeks before the camp was liberated. The song’s title, “Holland 1945,” unites the place her of birth in 1929 with the year of her death at age fifteen.'

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