The Diar Loneliness

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 life, everyone wants to have somebody they can call a friend. The unfortunate reality of this is that at some point in time, almost every person will experience loneliness. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, deals with the hardships of two friends who put their belief in a giant pipe dream. The book follows George and Lennie’s troubled and laborious life until their plans go very awry. “King of Hoboes, Arvel Pearson”, by Errol Lincoln Uys, is a nonfiction text which overviews Arvel Pearson’s life as a professional hobo. This includes a detailed version of what it was like to be a hobo in the time period known as the Great Depression and provides an idea of

They came up with a crazy plan to try and get the group freed. She gathered as much money as she could find and went down to the police headquarters. The plan was to bribe the officers to release the group. It was too late. The group was already gone (“Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank, dies at 100”).

She was providing income for the business and kept a lot of attention away from the building. On August 4, 1944, after two years of hiding the family, the secret annex was raided by Nazis and everyone in the annex was sent to concentration camps. Miep returned to the annex to find no one there and the apartment a complete wreck. While she was searching through the mess she found Anne Frank's diary laying on the floor. Miep then grabbed the diary and kept it for when and if the family ever returned. The only person who returned was Otto Frank. He was the only survivor of the Frank family and when Miep heard this she soon gave him Anne’s diary. Otto Frank was very appreciative of Miep when he got the diary. He felt as if he had a piece of Anne still with him and was very grateful that Miep had saved it for him. Otto and Miep were convinced they had to get the diaries published. They never rested until the diaries were published and in 1947 that is exactly what happened. Miep was a very humble person in the fact that she thought she was just doing her human duty by protecting all the people she did just like she says in these two quotes, “Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life,” and “Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would

For example, when Anne mentioned their hiding place, “was to be upstairs in the building where Father used to have his business” (Goodrich 104). The Frank family were fortunate to acquire a concealed refuge, unlike most Jews who had to undergo through labored concentration camps. They were granted an opportunity to continue forth with their lives under certain circumstances as wells as to continue prevailing for an extended period of time, even if it meant a few more months. Moreover, after Mr. Van Daan was convicted of stealing food in the middle of the night, Mrs. Frank could no longer abide with the remarks of the Van Daans, she said, “‘There are other hiding places,’” Mrs. Van Daan replied, “‘A cellar… a closet. I know. And we have no money left even to pay for that’” (Goodrich 177). Jews had to tolerate the agony of detecting an asylum with a constraint of limited time. If many people didn’t manage to seek shelter, severe consequences would have been ensued. To conclude, when the Nazi party, led by Adolf Hitler, invades the Netherlands in May 1940, Hitler develops a brutal police force known as the Gestapo, who administer laws in order to isolate Jews from the rest of the Dutch population (Frank Family and World War II Timeline). This commenced the process of concentration camps as well as being in hiding, which is what the

During WWII, two families were in hiding. The Frank family and the Van Daan family were hiding together. Both families are Jews and they went into hiding because Jews were being killed by the Nazis. A family member of the Frank family named Anne Frank wrote in a diary. She wrote down information that happened in the Annex. In the next three paragraphs I will talk about courage, compassion, and sacrifice.

Miep and Mr. Kraler did not share the information about how the Jews were disappearing from their houses because they did not want the Van Daans, Franks, or Mr. Dussel to freak out about how their friends and their friend’s families were disappearing. All of this ‘family’ are sitting around twenty-four by seven (including the time they sleep, which is how I got the number twenty-four), they could have been worrying about the events and how they could possibly be found and turned in. Mr. Kraler and Miep tried hard to keep the information about the Jews far away from the family. Another reason why they wanted to keep the information from the ‘family’ is because they did not want the family to give up and turn themselves in. They wanted the group

There are some moments where people get desperate looking for survival , but getting away from problems isn’t a good choice after all, because that wouldn’t really help them get out of the situation. The Frank family had the opportunity to have two years to spend time together but it made it harder for them to say goodbye at the end. Anne dies dies because the camp was terrible, but probably not going into hiding would made their lives in there better. It was probably more like a punishment for them leaving even though they were Jewish.

On an early morning in July of 1942, the Van Daans and Franks meet up for the first time at the annex. All of them are covered in layers of clothing to carry as much to their new home as possible. They are all

It was the early 1940's and WWII was raging through all of Europe. On May 10, 1940, the dreaded attack on Holland came. It was then, with Hitler's men patrolling the streets and the curfews and ration cards, that the Jews had to seek their cover. Immense amount of Jews and only a few willing Christians to do the job. Many Jews were taken and brought to concentration camps before there was any help, others were caught in hiding and were taken to prison along with the people helping them. After a short while, a large web of underground

One of the biggest fears at the Annex was getting caught. If someone heard an unfamiliar sound or movement, they would freeze and listen. To put it differently, any sound will cause them to stop what they were doing in risk of being found. Another fear the families had was being too loud, they’d never talk above a whisper. They never knew if somebody could hear them so they always stayed quiet.

At this time, the Great War was turning around. Recognizing defeat, the German soldiers and local collaborators became even more vicious, stopping every vehicle, demanding money and food, searching for the partisans, killing any suspect without a reason. Nevertheless, due to the sheer luck or providence, they completed the perilous journey, and the family settled in the rented room on the outskirts of town.

By 1940, Otto Frank could no longer hold his own business. Margot gets a letter asking her to work in a labor camp. This forces the Frank family to go into hiding during the war. They decide to hide in a secret annex above a office. They have numerous helpers bring them food for the two years they are in hiding. Along with Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne, four other Jews go into hiding with them making the living very cramped and tough to live in. The other family that goes to live with them is the, Van Pel family. The Van Pel family is, Hermann, Auguste, and Peter Van Pel. Due to the heavy persecution Jewish people

During the devastating time of World War II, a Jewish teenage girl wrote a diary about the gruesome events she witnessed, this diary was named, Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank. Anne Frank lived in Holland and went into hiding when her sister, Margot, got a letter to go to a reception camp. The Franks faced terrifying moments during hiding. They witnessed war outside their window and stayed in the same house without even going outside for about two years.To add on, the Franks had to keep in mind how every day they could be arrested or even die. Sadly Anne and her family are arrested and are sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp where she would later die. While in hiding, the Franks and the Van Daans, who were also in hiding with them,

being separated means being alone. This is true of every creature, and it is true of man