Anne Frank Remembered: Review
Anne Frank Remembered is the autobiography of Miep Gies, the woman who helped the Frank family survive during their two years in hiding. Her book is a primary source or first hand account of the persecution of Jewish people in Nazi occupied Holland during the second world war. It is also the first hand account of the hiding of Jews such as the Frank family, the Van Daan family, and Dr.
Albert Dussel during this time.
In regard to the book's autobiographical format, the author, Miep Gies, does not present the reader with a clear thesis statement. Instead, throughout the book the author discusses her main views toward the actions of the Nazis and
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She described the slow persecution of the Jews and the various restrictions placed upon them. In July of 1942, Miep and her husband helped the Frank family move into a hiding place named 'the secret annex', located in secret rooms of the Pectacon company building. It had become too dangerous for the Frank family to live as Jews in
Amsterdam. An order came for the Pectacon company to be liquidated as a Jewish business, so Mr. Frank turned it over in the names of his trusted, Christian business associates: Mr. Kraler and Mr. Koophuis. Although legally Mr. Frank had no ties with the business, it was still secretly directed by him with the means of clandestine meetings between the three men.
Miep described her responsibilities in shopping for the family and providing them with the necessities of life. She and her husband came up with plans to get extra ration cards in order to feed the Franks', the Van Daans', Dr.
Dussel, and themselves. All of the things she did for the families put a risk on her own life; even providing them with her companionship was illegal.
However, Miep and her husband became one of the only links the families in hiding had to the outside world.
On the morning of August 4, 1944, the efforts of Miep and the families failed when their hiding place was raided by Nazi officials. The families were arrested and sent to prison camps. The only thing
Miep Gies was sent to netherland for care and bonded with her foster family. She had married a dutch man and worked for otter frank, Miep worked as secretary becoming closer to otter frank’s family Miep had helped otter frank’s family she hid them in a secret annex after they were found Miep found the youngest of the group Anne Frank’s diary and stored it and gave it to Anne’s father when he returned after the war, as the only one survived at the concentration camps and once he returned Anne’s diary was once had miep returned the book to anne's father otto frank decided to fulfill his daughter's wishes and arranged for the diary to be published in 1947 (Miep 1).
Miep Gies risked her life many times to help the Frank family during the two years they hid from the Nazis in a secret place built into the Trading Company office in Amsterdam where she’d worked for Otto Frank almost ten years.
The van Pels and Franks started hiding in July 1942 when Margot Frank was told she was going to be taken away. Fritz Pfeffer joined them 4 months later. They had hoped to hide until the war ended.
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.
On July 1942 the Frank family went into hiding in a attic apartment right behind Otto Frank's business most of his employees including Miep Gies and her husband Jan a dutch worker helped smuggle food and news from the outside world and other supplies. Miep and Jan had also spend the night with the Frank family to see what it was like up their.
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,
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 Nazis were very cruel to the Jews, and sadly the Frank family experienced torture,starvation,and working too hard.the concentration camps were disgusting, they had disease,lice,and many other effects.
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler won the heart of president Paul von Hindenburg who appointed him to chancellor of Germany, but little did he understand this decision would later cost Germany over 6 million deaths and the title of the largest genocide in the world. This genocide was directed toward those who were Jewish who were persecuted or forced into labor because of this. Among the Jews at this time, the Frank and Van Pels family along with a friend inhabited an annex that was attached to Otto Frank’s business. Inhabiting this annex in order to escape the grasp of the Nazi’s would ultimately affect each person in a different way. While hiding in the “Secret Annex” Anne Frank and the other Jews suffered through the poor conditions of the hiding spot and were affected physically,
and Mrs. Frank sleep in the main area. Mr. Frank answers their questions, that “Please. I’ve thought this out for weeks. It’s the best arrangement. The only arrangement,” (Goodrich, PDF 707). Instead of making the Van Daans sleep in the main room, the Franks sacrifice their own living space for the other family. They are willing to give away their own comfort and personal needs for the Van Daans to have their own privacy. Meanwhile, later on, a woman, Miep, brings things for the group in the annex, while risking her life to do so. We hear this in one of Anne Frank’s diary entries. She writes that, “The people from whom Miep got our ration books have been arrested. So we have had to cut down on food supply,” (Goodrich, 497). Miep had been risking her life to get these ration books, illegally, for the family, and now has to find a way to get more food for the family while Mr. Kraler, another caretaker of the family, is in the hospital. Miep had befriended Anne and the family, and was willing to put everything on the line just for them. On more recent terms, a football coach of the recent Florida school shooting, was truly a hero and sacrificed his own life for the students of the school. In the
A group of Jewish people flocked to Amsterdam to hide from Nazi Police. The group was two families, The Frank's and the Van Daan's, among the Frank family was a young gril named Anne Frank. Anne would keep a diary of her daily life in hiding for about a year and a half. The views she shares are like none other the world has ever seen. Anne paints a picture worth over a billion words.
“Anne Frank is a Jewish girl who has to go into hiding during World War Two to escape from the Nazis … After more than two years in hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration camps … After her death Anne becomes world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding” (annefrank.org). Anne Frank was a young girl who had a bright future, but it was taken away from her by the Nazi’s and Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, Anne Frank was just the typical young girl. During the Holocaust, she had to adapt to a dangerous situation. Then, after her death, she has left a legacy that has impacted the hearts of many. Through Anne Frank’s early childhood years, the years during the Holocaust, and the years after her death she has left
Imagine dozens of families being seized from their house for no particular reason, or imagine a dirty and desolate campground with hardly any food and little to no chance of surviving. These are the horrors the the German Nazis brought to life in the 1930’s and 1940’s, where they persecuted Jews and forced them to work in labor camps or serve in concentration camps before being eventually killed off via gas chambers or being shot. Anne Frank and her family are just one of many to suffer at the hands of the Nazis, but her story is the most famous. Anne Frank and her family hid in a location known as the Secret Annexe when the Nazis came for them, a small area behind the business building of Anne’s father’s company. She and her family lived here in hiding with four other people in hiding for nearly two years before being discovered and being sent to concentration camps. During their stay in the annex, the living conditions of being in hiding created tension among the people there, which changed the eight originally kind and caring people into selfish and harsh individuals. The people of the Secret Annexe changed and warped emotionally and mentally in a negative way as shown by the seeming hostility in the conversations between the annex inhabitants, the selfish actions of the people in the annex, and the thoughts of the inhabitants who try to convince themselves that they will survive the war that show how
“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.
A young girl named Anne Frank was a German refugee in the Netherlands who was one of the millions of Jews affected by the Holocaust and World War II. She went into hiding in the summer of 1942 with her family and the Van Daans in the Secret Annex, located inside her father's workplace, to prevent going to a camp. Anne recorded events that happend while they were in hiding in her diary along with her personal thoughts and feelings. After World War II, her diary was published and is now the second most read non-fiction book in the world. Anne's entries tell us about what life was like in hiding and the problems they faces while in the Secret Annex. It also showed us that people are willing to try and prevent bad things from happening to them and their families.