Informative Essay: The Secret Anne Frank

Ever played a game of hide and seek? Well it was slightly like that for the Franks (A Jewish family living during the Holocaust) except they were forced to play, and if caught the consequences were deadly. The theme of Anne Frank is human growth involves pain, this is the theme because life can’t flow smoothly without a few bumps, there's always a few things you have to get past first. Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding because they were Jewish, and Jewish people were discriminated against and killed in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Hidden Like Anne Frank by Marcel Prins and Peter Steenhuis is a 14 story book about lots of children and families going into hiding during WW2 to try and survive. They moved from town to town and from city to city changing their identity and by passing their families. Some children had to leave at the age of three. They all have to hide in walls, under floors, and even in attics. Hiding from the Germans and the Nazis is a hard task, but most survive. All trying to avoid one thing when turning seven, the yellow star.

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.

The Diary of Anne Frank is about a girl that kept a diary while hiding from Nazi’s in Amsterdam for two years. The diary ends when the Nazi’s found her and her family. Her whole family was killed in exception for her father. She was given the journal on her thirteenth birthday. She simply summarized her life for two years in this phenomenal journal.

What was the development of Anne frank to an Adult? Because Anne franks life was ended short she was growing up as an Adult through the whole Holocaust. Inside the attic is where she grew up. Anne Frank was hiding away from holocaust in an attic, These major events cause a ton of character development with Anne from Childhood to Adulthood, "The Diary of Anne Frank" By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.

The book diary of Anne Frank is about a teenage girl named Anne Frank. For Anne upcoming birthday she requests a diary so that she can express her thoughts, feelings, and emotions that occur day to day in her daily life. Her parents give it to her and she starts to log about her daily life and relationships with her friends and family. But what she doesn 't realize is her diary docs her horrible life that she has in hiding during the holocaust. Within this book report, the analysis of the book will be given along with the summary of the book by chapter.

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.

love with Anne; "Peter loves me not as a lover but as a friend and

It was one of the many saddest events that occurred in the history of the world. In the following paragraphs you will be reading a summary or a “movie review”, what ever might call it, about Anne Frank. At the end of the review I will write about my opinion to the movie.

Would you be able to forgive someone that has been the cause of your family’s death? Anne Frank was one of the many Jews that was experiencing this way of life in the 1940’s. She was living in a time of absolute horror when Adolf Hitler came to rule as dictator in Nazi Germany. He ordered the Nazi soldiers to collect all the Jews in Europe and place them in the deadly concentration camps. That’s exactly the reason why Mr. Frank decided to move the family to a much safer place, from their current apartment to the secret annex. Anne couldn’t bear it there, because she was always all over the place and very naughty. She didn’t understand the condition her family was going through and was always making trouble. Mrs. Frank, a very kind and

Anne Frank was a Jew during World War Two, at that time Anne and her family were in hiding for 2 years. She wrote a diary about her time in World War Two. After in hiding for the 2 year, the Frank's were captured and sent away. Anne Frank passed away in one of the camps, leaving her diary in the hands of her father. Otto Frank was the only survivor of all the families in hiding with him. He later gifted the diary to the World War Two memorial museum. In her diary, Anne stated that, "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." Why would she feel that way towards everyone at that time, even the people who wanted her dead?

The Secret Annexe was considered to be an old factory where Anne Frank’s father Otto Frank used to work. An old house was present at the back of it i.e. the place where Anne Frank and her family i.e. eight Jews stayed during two years of the Second World War. The Secret Annexe was very small, clumsy and very uncomfortable to live in. There were only few rooms which were present in the Secret Annexe to live in. So, to live in the Secret Annexe, the families had to share between themselves. Anne shared her room with Dr. Dussel. Otto,Edith and Margot also shared their room. Mr. and Mrs.Van Daan also shared a room. Peter had his own small room with the stairs leading to the attic. Besides the bedrooms, the only other rooms which were present in the Secret Annexe were the attic and the bathroom. There was a kitchen, but it was in the bottom floor of the house, which was not considered part of the Secret Annexe.

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Anne Frank, like many people during World War II, kept a diary. However, her diary went on to become one of the most famous, most read books about the Holocaust (Histoy.com Staff). How did it happen that Anne’s personal diary turn into the most widely read account of the holocaust? Miep Gies found the diary after Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank, along with the Van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer were arrested. After the war, when Otto returned to Amsterdam and found that he was the only survivor, Miep gave him Anne’s diary (annefrank.org). Otto read his daughter’s diary. He was shocked to find, how different the Anne that he had know as his daughter was from the Anne that the read about (Frank). In the diary, his daughter’s biggest wish became clear to him: to become a famous writer. Otto decided to publish his daughter’s diary, and fulfill Anne’s wish (Anne Frank's Diary Is Published). Since its publication in 1947, it has been translated into 67 different languages, and has sold more than 30 million copies (Conradt). And even people such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, and John F. Kennedy have read Anne Frank’s diary. However, this book started out as a 13-year-old girl’s personal diary.