Eight Jews Hide from the Nazis in the Play, Secret Annex in the Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

Both the play and movie show you the sadness for the jews in the holocaust. The holocaust was when a man named Adolf Hitler influenced everyone to belief that the Jewish religion was considered as racist and shouldn’t be there. So Nazi (Hitler’s secret police) started taking Jews to concentration camps where they were tortured or murdered. Anne Frank was one of the many jews who tried to hide out from the Green Police (Nazis). The conditions for hiding away were awful; they couldn’t make a peep until everyone was gone from the building and they ate rotten potatoes everyday.

The play, “The Diary of Anne Frank” tells the story of a girl named Anne Frank and the events that occur during her time hiding from the Nazis in the Holocaust with her family, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel. While the two families were in hiding, they all suffered tremendously with limited food portions and the need to remain quiet in order to not get caught. During this period, if a person were to be not fit in the Aryan race, which consists of blonde hair, blue eyes, and tallness, then they were to be sent to concentration camps or be killed. Although all of the characters were put into the same circumstances, Mr. Van Daan drastically took advantage of the rest of the Annex. He was portrayed to be selfish and gluttonous because of the fact that he would do anything in order to obtain cigarettes and because he has been given or taking a significant amount of food that is supposed to be for the whole Annex. .

According to the movie, Mr. Frank seemed very devastated, and he was trying to hold himself together in order for him to prevent himself from crying because everything was taken from him. All around him were old memories of the past, such as gloves or a scarf of the people that he loved. In the selection, Mr. Frank also says, “I can’t stay in Amsterdam, Miep. It has too many memories for me. Everywhere there’s something... the house we lived in... the school... that street organ playing out there... I’m not the person you used to know, Miep,” especially after all that has happened to him, it would make sense for him to leave. Afterwards, Mr. Frank decided that everything at the Annex should be burned, however, Miep, who was his former secretary, gave him his daughter’s diary, known as The Diary of Anne

Mr. Frank shows courage, compassion, and sacrifice. This book shares the story of a young girl and her family hiding during world war 2. She goes into hiding in a small annex for two years with another family and two other men. This book shares the story from Anne’s point of view. it’s a great book to read and tells you how they survived for 2 years.

Mr. Frank cared for everyone, while living in the Annex. Mr. Frank also worked very hard before going into hiding; he had two businesses. Unlike Mr. Frank, Mr. Van Daan was self-centered and very bossy. Hermann Van Daan would sneak food at night while the others would have to have a small amount. He also told the kids what they could and could not do in a very rude way. Mr. Frank and Mr. Van Daan were two men that were very different in some ways.

If Mr. Van Daan wasn’t in the community at all, the Franks probably would’ve had a better chance at survival through the annex. This play takes place with 8 people hiding away in an attic to be safe from the Nazis, this is all happening during World War two. The title of this play is The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Good and Albert Hackett. Mr. Van Daan was business partners with Mr. Frank and they were exceptionally close, yet he is still an egocentric and greedy man. Despite how the Fanks welcome Mr. Van Daan into their home, he still betrays the trust their trust by being selfish and greedy.

The Play of the Diary of Anne Frank starts out in the annex in the warehouse in Amsterdam, Holland where Anne Frank and seven others hid out during World War II. It opens with Otto Frank and Miep Gies standing in the annex alone in 1945. Mr. Frank had just come home from the concentration camps, being the one survivor from the annex. After conversing for awhile, Miep hands Mr. Frank Anne’s diary from the days of living in the annex. He starts to read the book, as it slowly flashes back to 1942 when it all began…

Mr. Frank, while reading her diary, realizes how pure and unbroken she is. In the last scene of the play, it is made very clear how torn apart Mr. Frank is. He can not even live in the same place anymore because it kills him to be reminded of his family every day. His spirit was broken, the fire inside of him was put out by the Nazis and what they did to his family. After spending years in the attic rooms, her life forced to a screeching halt, Anne was still stubborn and loud and playful and happy.

Anne and Mr.Frank were very much alike. They were both very kind, even when it was hard to be. Anne is shown being kind in the text when the narrator says, “Anne tiptoes over to him and pour some of the milk from her glass into the saucer for the cat.”(291). This shows Anne being very kind and thinking about someone other than herself. In the play, Mr.Frank always helps stop the fighting between many people in the annex, such as the fight between Mr.Dussel and Anne. This shows Mr.Frank being kind because he is helping out other

Van Daan was always in a bad mood when having no cigarettes, but based on history, Mr. Van Daan tried to stay optimistic, gave advice, had a sense of humor, and always did what’s best for all of them. One example of Mr. Van Daan doing what’s best for everyone and trying to protect everyone is during a scary situation when burglars were robbing the building which the Secret Annex was located. According to Anne’s diary, “Without thinking, Mr. van Daan yelled "Police!" Hurried footsteps outside; the burglars had fled. The board was put back in the door so the police wouldn't notice the gap, but then a swift kick from outside sent it flying to the floor”(Frank). This diary entry shows that instead of hiding and trying and letting Otto Frank attempt to protect them like the play displays, he is brave and tries to scare the burglars away. The play exaggerates how selfish Mr. Van Daan is, if he was at all. The play probably exaggerates Mr. Van Daan’s selfishness to create drama in the Annex, making the play more enjoyable. Furthermore, while Mr. Van Daan was portrayed incorrectly for being selfish, he was portrayed correctly for not getting along with Anne in the play, as the diary has many entries about their

Have you ever been forced to do something you really did not want to do? In The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Robert Hackett, a group of Jews are all forced into an attic to hide from the Nazis. An ongoing theme throughout the play is that it is usually best to work together. Examples of this theme can be identified when the Franks welcome other Jews into their hiding place, when Anne Frank makes presents for the attic members for Hanukkah, and when Mr. Van Daan steals from the food safe.

Selfish people only care about themselves and no one else.World War II in a time of hunger Mr. Dussel puts his needs in front of overs in the Annex. The play of Diary of Anne Frank is written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and took place in Amsterdam, Holland. Mr. Dussel is a German Jew dentist married to a Christian woman, which he went into hiding without her, but with the Franks and the Van Daans .Despite the fact that Mr. Dussel should be grateful instead he is not; he is constantly insensitive to the feelings of others.

It was an extremely wise decision for the Franks to allow the Van Daans to live with them because he allows a family to avoid the Nazis, they don’t become bored of each other, and they have enough food. In the play “The Diary of Anne Frank” the character Mrs. Van Daan says, “Never, never can we thank you. I don’t know what would have happened to us, if it hadn’t been for Mr. Frank” (p. 376). Mrs. Van Daan is stating if the Franks never let her family live with them they could have been deported to concentration camps and eventually killed. Later in the play, Mrs. Van Daan starts a story by stating, “One summer we had a big house in Hilversum”(p. 385). When Mrs. Van Daan tells her story to Anne and Mr. Frank it gets their mind off of their terrible

Some parents love and cherish their children, but don’t understand them. Most do what they think is best for their kids, and aim to be admired by their children, but Mr. Frank is different; he and Anne have a special bond that will last a lifetime. In the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the Franks, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel go into hiding during Holocaust because Jews are being persecuted more and more in Germany. They are sent to concentration camps to die, and are suffering other versions of torture. Mr. Frank is Anne’s father, the man in charge of the annex, and he is a leader and someone who always looks out for others. Mr. Frank understands Anne is a teenage girl that need her father the listen to her.

The maturation of love burgeoning in the most barbaric physical and emotional settings displays that love can continue to flourish even through life’s hardships. Such is the case as Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacket depicted in the play The Diary of Anne Frank. This enlightening piece of literature is the journey of a Jewish teenage girl who, to escape the Nazis, goes into hiding in a confined annex with her mother, father, sister and another family. With the help of Miep, a Dutch citizen, the families survived over top of a factory; they were unable to interact with one another until the workshop closed. Always living with the everlasting fear that the green police could possibly unearth them any minute, the Franks, Van Daans and Mr. Dussel get through the day with the eternal optimism that one day, the brutal conditions they are living under will eventually lead them to freedom. From mental torture, to famine, to the bestial environment they are forced to dwell in, the characters in this play still thrive to find the rectitude and love within their inhumane setting.