Any native speakers know?

Still, let me try again: For a person who is alive, it means that they will be held in affection and respect by all who know them, and accomplish their most spectacular goals. For a person who is dead, it means they are remembered with affection and respect, and with great honor for what they accomplished in life.

In addition, people of good will who believe in Heaven are almost certain to believe that Anne Frank has a place among the blessed.

I think that's a good summary of the ambiguity of "gloria", at least as I see it. It's both meanings, the mundane and the religious.

Often this song will be song in the third person btw: "Lang zal ze leven", or "Lang zal hij leven"; the standard joke lyrics go "Veel zal ze geven" ("She'll give us much") in the second line and it's traditional not so much to end the song as to let it awkwardly peter out amidst some unnecessary tempo changes, or at least it is in our family...

And yet it also has mythological links to older forms of "holiness", especially though the "memory" aspect. I'm thinking especially of the Greek kleos -- usually translated as "fame", but the etymology leads to not only "clear", but "bright" -- like a star, visible to all. And yes, that was associated with both their worship as heroes, and their afterlife.

They left the camp quickly, without looking back, and began to walk along the road to the train station. The road was hot and dusty and they rested often. Occasionally they passed soldiers on leave or refugees traveling in groups carrying all their possessions between them. No one stopped to look at them, the tall man in the long black coat and the pale young woman in the new town-bought dress and shoes.

Kicsi thought that none of this could be real - not the people, or the well-kept houses, or the trees and shrubs flowering by the roadside. Sometimes when she passed a soldier, she marveled that there could be anyone so healthy left in the world.

There hasn't been a story where she survived the camps. I wonder if she would have published her Diary had she lived.

I remember seeing an Oprah Winfrey episode a few years ago where Elie Weisel toured Auschwitz with her. He swore then that it would be his last time there.

She would have. There's a part in the diary where she refers to a call on Radio Orange (Dutch underground radio broadcast from England) that the government wanted people who wrote diaries to keep them for publishing after the war.
Anne specifically rewrote sections of her diary after that to make it better suited for publishing.

(Context, for those who need it.)

I can understand your problem with the word "fortuitous". What I meant to say was that the world was very lucky that her diary was found and published, not that it happened by random chance. Perhaps "fortunate for the world" would be a better way to say it.

I'm afraid that there are a fair number of people of good will who believe in Heaven who must, due to their religious training, believe that she is roasting in Hell even as we speak, or will after the Judgement, along with all of my ancestors and most of anyone's.

I'd like to believe that anyone of good will could not believe so, but people who believe in many versions of eternal damnation have spent lives tending the sick, helping the poor, and so on, so I can't give it any credit.

Far from original: religion does a better job making good people monstrous than making bad people good.

Small good out of great evil: Anne's reference to her menstrual period was the first widespread acknowledgement of such in Japan, with the consequence that it (for awhile, at least) became known as 'Anne's Day' and could be discussed.

"Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him. For I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath's sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted."

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