Anne Frank : A Dark Time Period

Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, she was the daughter of Otto and Edith Frank. Anne and her sister Margot grew up in Germany, but before World War II Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam for two years. During World War II Adolph Hitler killed nearly six million Jews.

You can tell that Anne was very unhappy living in the rundown office building. She was crowded with all of the people living there, and they considered her “annoying”. Anne did not try to be annoying, but she was also one of the youngest in the building. She took lessons on reading and writing, and got better with writing in her diary. She named the Diary “Kitty” and kept it hidden from the rest of the people in the “Secret Annex”. She could only stand by while other Jews were taken and killed in concentration camps. She lived a very sad life in hiding before they were tipped off. (“Diary of”)

“It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” (Anne Frank) Anne Frank was one of the many children who fell victim to the Holocaust during the World War II. Anne’s story is nothing short of a tragedy; she died at the early age of fifteen from Typhus while being held by the Nazi Regime, in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Before dying, Anne and her family went into hiding and lived secretly in her father's office building in the Netherlands. While living in the “Annex,” a secret hiding place, she developed many interests such as reading and writing. Anne is famous because she is one of the best-known victims of the Holocaust, her story has been shared with millions in a publication of her diary, and through her writing’s she introduces many people to the massacre and its horror.

Jews have perished because of their beliefs since the beginning of time but never have so many Jews been persecuted worldwide as they were in World War II. Anne Frank’s diary reaches a place within all of our hearts because it reminds us how easily the innocents can suffer. Sometimes we may choose to close our eyes or look the other way when unjustifiable things happen in our society and Anne’s tale reminds us that ignorance, in part, claimed her life. Sadly, her story is but one of many of those who died in the Holocaust and as with other Jews, her fate was determined by the country she lived in, her sex and her age.

People can only imagine the terrors that the Jews and other ethnic groups had to go through during the Holocaust in World War II. With Anne Frank’s diary, people can finally put themselves into the scene and captivate all the feelings and sentiments that Anne Frank has poured onto the pages. Anne Frank, her family, and their friends were known for hiding from the German Nazis in the Secret Annex for two years from 1942-1944. Innocent and naive,

"The Diary of Anne Frank" tells us a story about how her life as a Jew was drastically changing during the Holocaust and the start of World War II (WWII). She was a very intelligent young woman that had hopes and dreams. Anne was a normal teenager trying to find her way in life. All of that changed when the Nuremburg Race Laws were formed. Her father who was a World War I fighter hid his family and friends in a Secret Annex that was blended in with a normal neighborhood. As she lived for months in the Secret Annex, Frank had written her diary, full of her experiences in the Annex. Everything changed though, when she reached the end of her times in the Annex. Hitler's men had found Anne and her family and friends. This memoir adds in to the

When Adolf Hitler became a leader of the German nation he dismissed Jews from medical, legal, government, and teaching positions. During this time Mr. Frank (Anne’s father) begins to move his family to the Netherlands in order to keep his Jewish family safe. On September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland, this was the start of World War II. Once the Germans have invaded the

Anne Frank was born to Otto and Edith Frank in the late 1920’s, alongside her older sister, Margot Frank, who was born three years before Anne. This small family of four were just ordinary working class people trying to make a living like everyone else. Both Anne and Margot lover school and their friends. They both also really enjoyed writing, which included diary entries every day. Both girls, particularly Anne, wrote down every event and feeling she experienced. Which lead to the famous diary we now know to be of Anne Frank’s life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank’s spectacular ability to remain joyous and courageous through her outstanding struggle are displayed through the three main point of her life before the Holocaust, living in

The Diary of Anne Frank is a remarkably moving book about the short life of a young girl and her family. The Holocaust was a horrible time for Jewish people and Anne and her Jewish family’s lives were completely turned upside down as a result. The war resulted in the deaths of countless people, mostly innocent people. Before the invasion on D-day and the end of the war not too long after, the rest of the world didn’t know the real disaster going on over seas. Anne Frank’s once secret diary has introduced the immense suffering and horror that occurred during the Holocaust.

Anneliese Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, June 12, 1929 (History.com). Anne Frank lived a quiet normal life attending school and having fun with all the other kids. The Franks were driven into hiding on July 14th, 1942 when Anne Frank’s sister Margot got a call to report to a work camp (Thoughtco.com). The family quickly packed and went into hiding. Otto Frank, Anne Franks father, owned a warehouse into which the family quickly departed. In just a day they had moved into a hidden room in the warehouse called the secret annex hidden by a movable bookshelf (See Figure 1).

Before WW2, Anne attend two school’s; Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam and Jewish Lyceum. Anne was born on June 12,1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. She was the child of Otto and Edith Frank. Anne was their second daughter, after her older sister Margot. In 1935, the Franks moved to Amsterdam due to Hitler taking over Germany. Anne never really paid much attention to what was happening with the jews, but one thing she did notice was the racism that was showed in school. On May 10, 1940,

Frank wrote in her diary specific details of what it was like being a Jew under Hitler’s control. Anne got her diary for her 13th birthday. The diary started out as just a normal teenage girl writing about crushes and fights at school. However, when the Frank family had to go into hiding the entries changed dramatically.

Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was born on June 12, 1929, to the parents of Otto and Edith Frank. She is one of the world-famous German- born diaries. For the beginning of her life, she lived with her parents and sister, Margot, in an apartment on the suburbs of Frankfurt, Germany. In 1933, when the Nazis took power, Otto Frank and his family fled to Amsterdam, Netherlands leaving Anne Frank behind. In 1934, Anne Frank departed to Amsterdam to live with her parents.

The German Secret Police showed up along with a few Nazis to the doorstep of the Annex on August 4th, 1944, breaking in and arresting everyone in the home.2 No one ever found out who told about their location. Each of the family members were taken to concentration camps; the men and women separated. The night they were taken, the family was brought to Camp Westerbork, and then transferred to the Auschwitz death camp on September 3, 1944.2 Anne was separated from her dad as they were sorted by gender, and never saw him again. After months of spending their days lifting stones and grass mats in agony, Anne was once again transferred, this time with her sister, to the Bergen-Belsen camp.2 Their mother, Edith Frank, was forced to stay at her concentration camp and let her daughters go, but died from an illness just months after on January 6, 1945.2 The conditions at Bergen-Belsen weren’t any better than the first camp; there was little food, disease was spread from bad sanitation throughout the camp, and eventually both Anne and Margot became ill with typhus, and both Anne and her older sister died in March

Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany on June 12, 1929. She had only one sibling, Margot her older sister. Her parents, Edith and Otto Frank, raised in a Jewish and non-Jewish people. The Franks where fairly wealthy because Otto’s successful business, so money was never a problem. The first Nazi threats were made when Anne was only four years old. Around that time Edith and Otto decided it was no longer safe where they