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The Book Version Of The Diary Of Anne Frank

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Roughly six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. This, sadly may not surprise anybody, but in addition to that, five million non-Jewish civilians were wiped out. Since the early 1900s, countless pieces were written and published (of all genres), encompassing the idea of what people have gone through during the Holocaust. This heinous slaughter affected both Jews and non-Jews. In these writings, a multitude of characters’ both experiences and roles throughout World War II differed. The two characters I have selected are Anne Frank from the nonfiction play version of The Diary of Anne Frank, adapted by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, and Bruno from the realistic fiction novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas written by John Boyne. In The Diary of Anne Frank, the Franks and Van Daans were in hiding from the Nazis due to the fact that they were Jewish people. Anne Frank was recording all of her thoughts in her diary. In The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, Bruno, a young boy, and his family were forced to move away from Berlin because of his father’s cruel profession (being in charge of an extermination camp). Unaware of his father’s inhumane line of work, Bruno was forced to make do with all the questions about the people on the other side of the fence he never got answers to. This all begun solely because in Bruno’s new home, in the distance he could vaguely make out what he assumed was a farm, when in reality it was an extermination camp for Jews to go and, unfortunately,

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