Anne Frank Remembered: Review Essay

The events recounted in Anne Frank’s Diary took place during World War 11. By 1933, the strongest party in Germany had gained ultimate power with Hitler under their command. Hitler was Germany’s dictator who spread his gospel of racial hatred through politics. While poverty and unemployment were at an all time high he launched a campaign of anti-Semitism. Hitler’s main target was the Jews, claiming that they were “racially inferior.” He developed an idea of a Master Aryan Race, the need to rid Germany of “inferior people”, such as Jews and Gypsies, and the need to expand Germany’s borders. In doing this, he caused many Jews to abandoned their homes and go into total isolation. The Frank family

“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.

Many of these secret homes were on busy streets that Nazis patrolled frequently. Anne Frank’s family was one of these Jews and took up residence in the hidden rooms above her father’s former office. As the end of the war neared, Nazi soldiers began to get worried and cared less about apprehending Jews than they did about killing the ones they already had taken as prisoner.

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,

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.

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).

While all of this was going on, many Jews were hiding from Hitler. A few of these families were the Frank and VanDaan family. The Frank family consisted of Snne Frank, Margot Frank, Mrs. Frank, and Mr. Frank. The VanDaan family considted of Peter VanDaan, Mrs. VanDaan, and Mr. VanDaan. Mr. Frank was the owner of a buisness before the war.

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.

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.

It was the cause of death to nearly 11 million people, and six million consisted of Jews. The Franks took all the precautionary measures possible to keep themselves, but they could only do so much to defer the inevitability. The first major precaution was going into hiding. The Franks would hide in an apartment along with another family for two years. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states, “During the first half of July, Anne and her family went into hiding in an apartment which would eventually hide four Dutch Jews as well—Hermann, Auguste, and Peter van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer” (ushmm.org). In July of 1942 the Franks went into hiding. They were unaware that they would spend two years in the secret hiding place. Biography.com writes, “The families spent two years in hiding, never once stepping outside the dark, damp, sequestered portion of the building” (biography.com). The amount of annoyance of not leaving the same place in two years would be immense. On August 4th, 1944 the Franks and everyone with them were discovered and arrested. Annefrank.org states, “The people in hiding are caught completely off guard. They have lived with the anxiety of being discovered for more than two years and now it is happening” (annefrank.org). It is unknown exactly how their presence was made known to the Nazis, but it was likely that someone betrayed them. They were deported to Westerbork transit camp, and then they

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.

As read in the last paragraph, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding. They also stayed with other Jews. Furthermore, in the year a man by the name of Fritz Pfeffer had moved into the Annex. He stayed in Anne’s room while Anne’s sister, Margot stayed with her mother and father. During their stay, Anne had gotten a diary earlier in the

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,

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.