Anne Frank During The Holocaust: Anne Frank

Mr. and Mrs. van Daan and their son Peter (who is a few years older than Anne) are also in hiding with the Franks. Anne’s adolescence is spent hidden from the outside world. She’s cooped up in tiny rooms, tiptoeing around during the day. After almost 2 years in hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, is the only one of the eight people to survive. After her death Anne becomes world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding. Miep Gies is a Dutch woman who assists the annex residents with food, clothing, books, and companionship. She cheerfully assists them with the things they need and pitches in to give them holidays. Along with Elli, she retrieves and saves Anne's diary from the floor after the annex residents are arrested (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies). Miep Gies and her husband took action and helped their Jewish friends. This situation affected their daily lives in many different ways. The fact that Miep and her husband helped the Jews, knowing that they

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.

Anne had always maintained a close relationship with her mother. She respected her work ethic and her determination to raise her family the best she could. Yet most young women face a time in their lives when their relationship with their mother is strained. This somewhat natural occurrence took place, but was intensified by Anne's own discovery of how the world really worked, in terms of race relations. I think that Anne always found her mother's lack of communication, regarding the race situation, as a weakness. This created more distrust for her mother at an already vulnerable time in her life.

Growing up during the Holocaust was a rough time especially for Anne. Growing up in a small cramped annex with strict rules and a family she hardly knew was not an easy transition from her living in her own home with some to no rules. To go into hiding Anne had to give up all of her friends and leave the school she was attending. It was like her and her family just disappeared. While staying in the annex for two years Anne has shown many characteristics of a survivor such as being friendly, becoming composed and having an optimistic attitude.

On January 30, 1939 Adolf Hitler addressed the German Reichstag stating, “If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!” Hitler had believed that the Jewish people throughout Europe were enemies of his people in Germany. The best way to stop this was to wipe out the population of Jews throughout Germany, as he established over 40,000 concentration camps killing many of the Jews who went there. One of those Jewish people who went to a concentration camp was 15 year-old Anne Frank who wrote about her struggles in her diary writing, “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” Frank died in Auschwitz believed from typhus a disease that is transported by lice, ticks, mites, and rat fleas giving the person a purple rash, headaches, and a high fever. Her disease gives us now the feeling of how these concentration camps were. Upon arrival at the camps the enslaved prisoners of war would receive their prisoner uniforms with their serial number along with a tattoo of their same serial number. However, the prisoners that were instructed to go into a gas chamber which killed them instantly were not marked and not seemed important. The gas chambers were first used in the later months of 1939 releasing poison gas into a

Over 6 million Jews died once Hitler came to power, an event that came to be known as the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had grown up learning that Jews were bad. This is where we think he got the idea to blame them for Germany’s loss in World War 2. Anne Frank and 7 other Jewish people went into hiding shortly after Margot, Anne’s sister, got a letter asking her to report to a Jewish work camp. They were hiding for 25 months, until they were discovered on the 4th of August in 1944, everybody was arrested. Anne Frank is believed to have died from Typhus fever on March 12th, 1945, just 34 days before the Bergen-Belsen camp was liberated. The only survivor of the annex was Mr. Otto Frank. He returned to Amsterdam, June 3rd, 1945. Historical events that happened during the Holocaust can be proven to have affected the annex member’s mood and relationships in the drama, “Anne Frank.”

“More than 70 years after the Holocaust, the horrors of Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Darfur are sobering reminders that preventing future genocides and mass atrocities remains an enormous challenge”(Obama P 3). In the novel Forgotten Fire, Vahan Kenderian shares his experiences through the Armenian War and Genocide, where his family and most of his people were killed. In the book, The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne explains her thoughts and feelings, during some of her teen years, and her experiences through World War Two and the Holocaust. Through the experiences of Anne Frank and Vahan Kenderian, they experience many things that are alike yet different from each other. In 1915, the Ottoman Government decided on

One of the most well known and discussed Holocaust victims was Anne Frank. Born a German national on June 12th 1929 to Jewish parents she grew up as the child to the Frank family in Frankfurt that was later to become one of the hearts of the concentration camps. After she lost her citizenship in 1941, her family moved from Germany to Amsterdam to escape the horror tales they heard followed the new sweeping Nazi regime. By the May of 1942 the family went into hiding. The radical ideas brought up by the new German company supported racist and antisemitism beliefs started in Dachau in 1933 with the concentration camps.

From 1933 to 1945, Jewish people lived in fear, not one was safe. In the horrible time of the Holocaust, Jewish people of all ages and conditions were harassed and even executed. The Frank family, consisting of a father, mother, and two young daughters, were tortured during this time period. One particle family member, the youngest daughter, legacy still lives on today. Anne Frank was both a hero and a victim of the Holocaust because she was forced into hiding, her loved ones were killed, and her diaries impacted many.

“The Holocaust is very much alive. The wounds are still there. The scars are still there. The influence is still there.” This quote means: The Holocaust isn’t here anymore but the pain still remains.

“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.

Anne Frank was a light amidst the darkness during the times of the Holocaust. She has since passed but her diary continues to tell her story everyday. While Anne was in hiding with her family, she documented her life in detail in a diary that she kept. This gives people today an insight into how the Holocaust affected people on a personal level. Soon after Anne’s death, her diary was published and is now read by millions of children around the world, it teaches them about the Holocaust and what she went through.

Even though Anne lived in confinement and in such circumstances she didn’t give up on herself and was still optimistic. This shows that Anne Frank is a strong person, at an early age she was able to not lose hope and still believed that people are really good at heart. She continued to grow as a person and still had positivity in

Reading Frank's diary excerpts from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl lets readers glimpse into the terrors that a young Jewish girl faced during the Holocaust. The tone of her diary goes through extreme change in a span of one month. In July 1942 she's excited for summer vacation, she mentions she's most excited because she no longer has to get tormented. By July her family has gone into hiding. While reading these excerpts, specifically, the last one, I wonder how someone could live their life day to day in constant fear. Yet, how she maintained the amount of hope and strength that she did. How she keeps her strength and perseveres through the unthinkable, keeping quiet all day and not knowing whether that was the day she would be caught. Yet, Frank always kept her hope and strength. In one of her final entries she writes, “Its difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abounded 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 used her diary to document her life and distract herself from the horrifying situation she and her family have found themselves in. Readers see Frank grow over the course of two years in hiding as not only a person, but also a writer. Psychologist Sara Staggs says, “Anne Franks diary beautifully captures coming of age in such dark times.” If Franks diary was full of fear and negative words, it wouldn't have been remembered. In the darkest of times Frank can still see the good, she has hope in herself and others, and she has the strength that no one else

Do you ever get mad when your parents say you can’t do something or go anywhere? Well, imagine how Anne feels being isolated in that room all day long, every day. The story "Diary of Ann Frank" reveals what it’s like to transition from childhood to adulthood in the modern life. The theme of the story is living in oppression and how it affects Anne as a person, both physically and emotionally. For two years, Anne and her family along with another family are locked up in hiding in a secret loft. “The diary of Anne Frank” shows us that sometimes family is all we got but we have to make the best of it and be thankful we have our family. Anne Frank quoted “we all eat and read like one family” (page 230) This statement tells us that no matter what