Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett

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Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett - A One-Act Play is an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred

Frank is the thirteen-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a gripping perspective of the Holocaust

Till is the fourteen-year-old African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi sparked the modern American civil rights movement

The one-act play opens with the two teenagers meeting in memory, a place that isolates them from the cruelty they experienced during their lives

The beyond-the-grave encounter draws the startling similarities between the two youths' harrowing experiences at the hands of societies that couldn't protect them

In memory, Anne recounts hiding in a cramped attic with her family after German dictator Adolf Hitler ordered the Nazi military to round up Jewish people throughout Europe, and put them in concentration camps en route to gas chambers

At the age of fifteen, Anne died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in March 1945, a few weeks before British troops liberated the camp

Emmett tells Anne how he, in 1955, ended up being brutally attacked by two white racists who beat and tortured him before shooting him in the head and tossing his body into the Tallahatchie River with a cotton-gin fan tied to his neck

This happened after he whistled at a white woman while visiting his uncle in Money, Mississippi