Anne Frank And The Holocaust

Anne Frank, a name? A book? A girl? A prisoner? Anne was all these things. She lived in a world ruled by the Germans. Adolf Hitler, the ruler of the Nazi Germans ordered for the whole Jew population to be destroyed. He ordered all Jews to be taken from their homes and to be sent to labor or death camps, also known as concentration camps. Once Anne’s family heard of this they went into hiding with four other Jews. After two years of hiding, not being able to go outside, talk or move a lot, or being able to use the W.C. at certain times of the day, the Franks, Vaan Dans, and Mr. Dussel were turned in by a random citizen and were arrested. Before that time Anne had a diary where she wrote her deepest most inner thoughts. She once said, “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” I disagree with Anne’s statement, “Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”

First of all, Anne Frank is only one of a million Jewish children who died during the slaughter and she represents the lost potential of all the children. However, she is one of the most recognized victims because of her diary. Only a small amount of children persecuted during the catastrophe wrote diaries that have survived. Her diary reflects a varied and complex view of a young girl who lived and died during the mass murder. Her diary is one of the best-written diaries authored by a teenager living and hiding during a catastrophe and details a

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.

Among the on million of the children killed was Anne Frank. Anne was a Jewish, teenage, girl who's family went into hiding. They stayed hidden for over two years in their Secret Annex. Over the course of these two years, she kept a dairy that has now been published. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl had been translated into over 60 languages and is read and studdied world-wide. She began the dairy at age thirteen and wrote her last entree at age fifteen. The majority of her diary talks about her time spent in the Secret Annex which was the back part of a spice warehouse owned by her father previous to the Neurenburg Race Laws. The Franks lived with another family, the Van Dann's, and another man named Dussel. On August 4, 1944 German officers stormed the Annex and arrested all families. They were then taken to a transfer camp called Westerbork. They spent roughly one month there before being moved to Auschwitz, a consentration camp. Once off the train men, women, and childern were all separated. That was the last time Anne saw her Father, Mr. Van Dann, Dussel, or Peter. This is when the dehumanization began. People working the camps strped them of glasses, jewlery, shoes, and anything else that made them a individual. In addition to this the Nazi cut their hair and put them all in uniforms so tthey all looked the same. After anther month of

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 article, “The Girl Who Lived Forever”, by Kristen Lewis, describes the hardships of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, and her family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Anne Frank lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. She and her family managed to survive for 2 long years in hiding, by living in a secret annex behind her father’s pectin factory. In August of 1944, the SS captured Anne and the others hiding in the annex. All but Otto Frank, Anne’s father, perished in the Nazi concentration camps. Though they lived through unspeakable and unimaginable challenges, Anne, her family and their friends showed a tremendous amount of courage trying to defy Hitler and his evil regime.

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

Imagine spending two years of your life in a tiny house with 7 other people. Never going outside and having contact with almost no one outside (Annefrank.org). Anne Frank and her jewish family lived like this for two years hiding from the Nazi Party in World War 11. With them hid, Fritz Pfeffer, and Peter Van Pels, with his parents Auguste and Hermann Van Pels.

The Holocaust was one of the most acknowledged genocides due to hundreds of first hand accounts from Jews in the form of diaries, memoirs, and from the people themselves. Through their words and writings, people have observed the different experiences and reactions of the Jews who faced the abhorrent racial discriminations from Nazis and gentiles. Among these Jews were Anne Frank, Leon Leyson, Jeannine Burk, and Mirjam Geismar. Daily life for Jewish people during the Holocaust vari depending on mainly their ed, wealth and luck. Anne Frank's experience during the Holocaust generally differed from other Jews in hiding.

"'This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning” (Frank 47). On June 12th, 1929, Annelies Marie Frank was born, in Frankfurt, Germany, her father was Otto Frank, who was a lieutenant in the German army in World War 1, who then he became a businessman in Germany and the Netherlands, and her mother was Edith Frank, Anne also had an older sister named Margot. Before everything had gone south the Franks had been just a normal Jewish family who loved their lives. At the age of four the Anne, and her family had moved to Amsterdam, because Adolf Hitler was invading Germany. Hitler was not a very nice person, he thought that the jews were a race, which they weren’t it was a religion, and

Proceeding with everyday life was challenging for Jewish children. Anne Frank along with her family and other Jews had their freedom stripped away because of the Nazis. They had very little supplement and were forced to adjust to a new way of living during hiding. Jewish families around them were being taken away. Unlike Anne Frank, though, some children had to work a job while hiding according to “Hidden Children in France During the Holocaust.” A number of children even had to change their names. Anne had the privilege to live with her family while some children like the French Jews had “lost contact and were alone, relying only on their ‘adopted’ family” (Berman). Anna in When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit moved to several countries having to be accustomed with new languages and traditions. Anne Frank only stayed in one place. Their troubling efforts to continue on with their daily lives during the Holocaust gave people a glimpse of the multiple impacts the war had on the Jewish people.

The holocaust was a tragedy for Jews everywhere and the symbols of violence and hate made 1933-1945 a horrible time. Even today children everywhere are taught the history of the holocaust in hopes of informing everyone sio that nothing similar ever happens. Innocent jewish lives were lost because of the holocaust the Nazi party. The jews were beaten, starved, worked, and gassed to death. The Franks, Van Pels, and Dussel were part part of this time and they managed to hide from the Nazi party successfully for two years with the help of trusted friends. The historical events happening at the time with the war reflected on the lives of the families in hiding.

From the beginning to the end of the diary of Anne Frank, there are countless examples of how all people were divided between good and evil. In World War II, every country took sides, joining either those who supported Jews or those who tried to destroy them relentlessly. From the perspective of a young Jew in hiding, internal struggles between good and evil are also revealed, a reflection of the war outside.

Otto Frank was the only member of his immediate family that had survived at the concentration camps. On July 18, 1945 he met two of his sisters that were at the same camp as Anne and Margot and they delivered the tragic news of their deaths to Otto.

During the devastating time of World War II, a Jewish teenage girl wrote a diary about the gruesome events she witnessed, this diary was named, Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank. Anne Frank lived in Holland and went into hiding when her sister, Margot, got a letter to go to a reception camp. The Franks faced terrifying moments during hiding. They witnessed war outside their window and stayed in the same house without even going outside for about two years.To add on, the Franks had to keep in mind how every day they could be arrested or even die. Sadly Anne and her family are arrested and are sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp where she would later die. While in hiding, the Franks and the Van Daans, who were also in hiding with them,