Anne Frank : The Annihilation Of The Holocaust

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.”

As today’s teenagers connect less and less to the past and its lessons, it is necessary to reflect on the commonalities that our generation has with past generations like Anne Frank’s because we are more alike than it seems. Anne Frank went through many of our present-day problems that teens today face every day.

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,

Anne Frank, a Jewish child at the time, faced constant persecution from the Nazis and had personal struggles similar to those of other Jewish children. This was an effect of World War Two since Adolf Hitler believed that the German race was superior, so during his world domination, his immoral notion created devastation among Jews. His wave of dictatorship affected each and every family, and although many of them faced death, mostly all faced sorrow. This world-wide crisis reveals the parallel between several Jewish families, such as the Franks, and how they were able to cope in their racist community and oppressive setting.

Anne Frank, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust gained fame after the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl. She documents her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. She once said, “If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.” Life in the concentration camps was worse for Jewish women than it was for men. They faced even more difficulty and were being treated more cruelly. During the Holocaust, the government frequently subjected women, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to brutal persecution that was sometimes unique to the gender of the victims. Women had to go to drastic measures to survive while incarcerated. Nazi’s ideology was called the “Final Solution”, this was the complete annihilation of all Jews. All of this made the Holocaust brutal for women.

The Holocaust began in 1933 and ended 1945, was the reason three teenagers and five adults had to begin hiding in an Annex. While in hiding the relationships between the children and their parents weakened. Anne Frank’s relationship with her parents had some differences and similarities. Anne’s relationship with her mother and father were different. Anne’s relationship with her mother was difficult, while Anne’s relationship with her father was very close. They are both similar because they love Anne very much.

“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

Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year, yet people associate them as being in completely separate parts in history. Anne Frank was a woman who went through the horrors of the holocaust and wasn’t lucky enough to survive the brutality and torture. When you look back on the accounts of treatment of the people in the concentration camps, you see more stories about the men’s lives. People seem to only hear about the men, but what about the women and how they were treated during this time as well. Women had it worse than men during the holocaust because they were more susceptible to rape, they were immediately brutalized and killed for being pregnant, and they were killed for simple

When Anne Frank was four and her sister, Margot, was seven, their family had to move out of their hometown in Germany to Amsterdam so that Nazis wouldn’t catch the Jewish family. Unfortunately, Germany invaded there as well, but the Frank family didn’t wish to leave their home once again, and stayed. However, laws against Jew increased, saying that Jews weren’t allowed to drive, that many places wouldn't let Jews in, and of course they had to wear the infamous yellow star. Edith and Otto Frank were worried, and began a plan, along with a few close family friends and Otto’s co-workers, to prepare the secret annex at Otto’s workplace for them to hide in. They had chosen a specific day to move in, but needed to go sooner because Margot was ordered

Books or stories affect people in different ways, many of them being happy because everyone lives happily ever after. Very rarely do I get affected by books, and the Story of Anne Frank is one of them. This poor Jewish girl, has to hide away with seven other people, three of them being her actual family members.

”Despite all everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank is the one who said that quote. She believed, even though Hitler and other people were horrendous to the Jews, they still had superior in their hearts. Hitler was a man who leads the Holocaust to slaghter millions of Jews. He thought the Germans were the perfect and he loathed Jews. After the Holocaust and World War II was over the Germans had killed more than 6 million Jews. (World 264). The people that were Jews back then they had a very brutal life. ¨Nazis prohibited Jews from attending universities, and seized their property and businesses” (World 264). The Germans didn't let anyone know about what they were doing, the kept it a secret and deceived the victims so they wouldn't try to run away (World 264). All of the Jews had to go through the from one person's opinions and beliefs. Anne Frank was one of those 6 million Jews who got killed in the Holocaust (World 264). Although this tragedy affected the Jews and the world in general, if the Holocaust never occurred, then we would never know about Anne Frank and the other important people that was affected by the Holocaust.

Anne Frank impacted many people. She has a very unique personality. I think she inspired many people because she never gave up and she was always positive. Also, she always was happy and always wanted to play around because her life was in risk and can end anytime during the Holocaust.

Eventually her family was betrayed and moved to one of those concentration camps like Dachau. Anne and her sister Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Northern Germany where they eventually are assumed to have died of Typhus. They had past away nearly two to three weeks before most camps were liberated by American and U.N. soldiers. Carved into one of the walls of the infamous gas chambers is an etching done by a person who knew they were moments away from their own death, it read “If there is a God, he will have to beg my forgiveness.”

I think what we can learn is that the holocaust was a very terrifying for Jews, especially for Anne Frank and her family. In the text it tells about them hiding out and not being able to go anywhere. But, they said to themselves that it is better than staying in a concentration camps. Anne Frank’s diary entries show us that she actually tries her very best to be positive, even though she is scared to death and wants to panic. She stayed as come as she could, this was good. Anne would mention all the people that were nice to her, like her dentist. She would try her best to avoid any negative thoughts or feelings, and, stayed brave in a very dangerous situation. Anne Frank and her family were going through a lot, they were living in very bad

Summary: In the beginning of the graphic novel, the authors depict the events of Anne’s parents, Edith and Otto. The book continues to depict snapshots of her life including, Anne’s beginning years in Frankfurt, her families immigration to Amsterdam, her view of the war. At the conclusion of the book the audience is exposed to her last years in the Annex where the Frank family was betrayed by an unknown source and reported to the German Security Police, where they were later deported to a concentration camp.The conclusion of the graphic novel, depicts her eventual death and the survival of her father, which lead to the publication of Anne’s diary.