Life In The Secret Anne Frank

Jewish people were being taken to concentration camps. Anne and her family were jews and had to go into hiding. They hid in a secret annex above her father’s office. The Frank family was later joined with four other people. With eight people in the annex it quickly became crowded. The residents of the annex had several people that risked their lives to help them. They were in hiding for two years, until they were found. After being found, what happened to the members of the annex?

While in hiding, Anne Frank was closed off from the world as she was not allowed to leave the “Secret Annex”. To pass time Anne would read books and wrote in an autograph book she received for her 13th birthday, the book in which she used as a diary described her life in hiding, her various thoughts, and relationships with the members of the Secret Annex in which Anne was hiding in. Before going into hiding, Otto Frank had notified a few of his most trusted workers where they would be hiding. The workers would shortly visit the annex to tend the Franks with necessities such as food and gave news of the war. Although life was hard, their survival from Hitler’s regime seemed promising until in a sudden sad turn of events, one of Otto’s workers

Mr. and Mrs. van Daan and their son Peter (who is a few years older than Anne) are also in hiding with the Franks. Anne’s adolescence is spent hidden from the outside world. She’s cooped up in tiny rooms, tiptoeing around during the day. After almost 2 years in hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, is the only one of the eight people to survive. After her death Anne becomes world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding. Miep Gies is a Dutch woman who assists the annex residents with food, clothing, books, and companionship. She cheerfully assists them with the things they need and pitches in to give them holidays. Along with Elli, she retrieves and saves Anne's diary from the floor after the annex residents are arrested (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies). Miep Gies and her husband took action and helped their Jewish friends. This situation affected their daily lives in many different ways. The fact that Miep and her husband helped the Jews, knowing that they

In the play “Anne Frank” they are located in Amsterdam July 6th 1942. They are in hiding in what is called the Annex during WWII. The people at the Annex are Anne Frank, Margot Frank, Mr.Frank and Mrs. Frank, Peter Van Daan, Mr. Van Daan, Mrs. Van Daan, and Mr Dussel, we know this because Mr. Frank gave Anne Frank a diary and she wrote in the diary a lot giving us this information. In times like this, you would need lots of Courage, Compassion, and Sacrifice to get through the tough times.

About two months after moving in, a local Jewish dentist friend of Miep’s fiance, Dirk, is in trouble. He needs a hiding place, and fast. Mr. Kraler comes to ask if he could hide with them in the annex. After talking it over, they decide it’s the right thing to do. His name is Mr. Dussel. They arrange for him to room with Anne and for Margot to move in with in their parents’ room. Mr. Dussel brings them information from the outside. He tells them about how Jews are being pulled away from their homes and taken off to camps. Mr. Dussel becomes a normal residence of the annex very soon. With time he becomes more and more rude to them, and insensitive.

In 1942 Nazis arrived all over Europe and started to kill Jews. Two Jew families went into hiding until this was over. The Franks and Van Daans went into hiding. These families were limited to things. There was tension and stress a lot, and there was some things to occupy their time. What was it really like for these families to live in the Secret Annex?

In the play, the residents of the Annex get help from Miep Gies and Mr. Kraler, workers in Mr. Frank's company. Miep buys supplies for them and makes sure that they stay hidden. In Act 1, Scene 2, Mr. Kraler says, “Miep or I, or both of us, will be up each day to bring you food and news and find out what your needs are." This shows how devoted Miep and Mr. Kraler are to keep the Franks comfortable in the attic, even when the risks are extremely dangerous. "I asked Father what would happen to them if the Nazis found out they were hiding us. Pim said that they would suffer the same fate that we would" (Act 1, Scene 1). The punishment for hiding Jews would be death. Jeannine Burk was a Jew who hid in a woman's house from the ages of three to five. Burk had to stay in the house most of the time, but it would also be dangerous to be in the house. She states, "The Nazis used to love to parade. When they used to parade, everybody on the street had to open their doors to watch. The lady I was staying with had to open her door and watch too. She would hide me in the outhouse. If the Nazis saw a Jew inside the house, both the woman and Burk would undoubtedly be punished. Both Anne and Burke had people who helped them go into hiding. and they both faced the same

Living within the Secret Annex wasn 't the easiest thing ever done. Secrets were kept, stories were revealed, things changed in the Frank 's life and the Van Danns life. Not everyone got along well in the secret annex. There were limitations and restrictions they all had to follow. The room annex wasn 't a huge house, they had to share lots of things. Many fears would show through all of

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

In the Drama, The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the audience examines the awful living conditions in the annex from Anne’s point of view. Life in the annex was described as restricting, terrifying, and the members were dependent. The members in the annex were given very strict rules, making the living atmosphere very restricting.

Secondly, one of the main settings in the novel is the Secret Annex , and is not a place I consider visiting. This is because of the poor living conditions depicted in the book. The diary takes place in the Netherlands in 1942-1944. The Secret Annex is consists of small rooms behind the office of Mr.Frank (Anne’s father) and Mr. Van Daan’s (partner of Mr. Frank) . The secret annex is an empty section of Mr. Frank’s business. The front portion of the building is open for business while the back is concealed for hiding. Due to Nazi invasion, the annex is used as a hiding spot. Through the course of Anne’s diary , she only mentions eight people living in the annex. According to Anne, the Annex houses the Franks, the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel.

The secret annex was a hidden little room behind a bookshelf to hide The Franks and other families. It has everything a kitchen,rooms, and a attic. The Frank’s and the other family lived in the secret annex for 2 years until they were caught and taken to concentration camps.There was very little room so you had to be very picky about what you were going to take and leave at home. You first had to think about the other families would there be enough space if you took certain things. Are the things you're taking really necessary. I would bring books because first if there isn’t really nothing to do I could just sit down and read a book, second I wouldn’t forget to read or spell, and third they don’t really take much space.

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.

What do you think it was like for Anne Frank to live in the Annex with all the other people? It was probably crowded because of the seven people living there. She also didn't get along with some of the people there like her mother, Mr. Dussel, and Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan.

The only thing she had to do was study and write in her diary. She never goes outside and always has to worry about if their ever going to be discovered and killed. The Frank Family wasn’t the only ones that went into hiding in the “Secret Annexe”, also the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel, making a total number of eight. Their survival in the “Secret Annexe” was dependent on their helpers who brought them food, news from the outside, and books.