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    Anne Frank By Immaculee

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    1. The Rwandan 1994 genocide was an absolute tragedy in African history. Before reading this book, I wasn’t very familiar about the event. I was aware that a war in a small African country occurred where an entire ethnic group was almost annihilated. I knew that a woman was forced to stay hiding in a cramped bathroom for three months, along with several other women. I obtained this information from my fifth grade English class assignment. My grade was reading The Diary of Anne Frank, which is about

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    The Diary Of a Young Girl:Anne Frank is an autobiography that takes place during the Holocaust in Amsterdam between 1942 and 1944. This is a nonfiction book that connects with readers of all ages. The main characters in this book are Anne Frank, Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Mrs.Van Daan, Mr.Van Daan, Peter Van Daan, Miep, Mr.Dussel, Elli, and Mr. Kraler. The main events of this book take place in the living quarters known as the “Secret Annexe”. This book is a classic and can teach valuable

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    Anne Frank Analysis

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    building in Amsterdam, Holland during World War II. Otto Frank, wife Edith, and daughters Margot and Anne Frank enter the annex hiding from vicious Nazi soldiers searching for Jews to terminate. Anne periodically writes in her journal about her active experiences. The Franks were originally from Germany, however, they fleed to Holland several years prior to avoid Hitler’s dictatorship. Their hiding began when Margot was chosen for work at a concentration camp, which symbolizes death. The attic they are

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    The Diary of A Young Girl, written over a two-year period, tells about the life of a young girl named Anne Frank who is also the author, while she and her family are in hiding in Holland. They are staying in a secret attic of the office building where Mr. Frank used to work in order to escape from the Nazis during World War II. During their stay in the annex, they are supported by several people in the office building, who risk their own lives to insure the secrecy of the Jewish hideout and to provide

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    Essay On Miep Gies

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    Miep Gies one of many people who helped survivors of the holocaust born February 15, 1909-January 11, 2010. Helped hide a Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War ll. Miep Gies born into a working-class of a catholic family in Vienna. At age 11 she was sent to the Netherlands to live with a foster family who nicknamed her Miep her birth name is Hermine Santrouschitz. Miep Gies was a secretary working for Otto Frank in a small company in Amsterdam that made a substance

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    “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart,”, Anne says in lines 1928-1931. You’re probably mentally conceiving, how could anyone still believe that all people are civil? It’s quite simple, Anne was an exceptional puerile girl, thirteen to be precise, at the time she was driven into obnubilating. She left a place where she could run and play and make as much noise as possible, she just wanted to do that again. Another reason is, she was highly optimistic. When reading

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    Anne Frank was a remarkable young women she was only 13 years old the time she went into hiding. She needed to disappear into hiding because she was jew in the time of the holocaust. Her family went into hiding the day her sister Margot received a letter in the mail wanting her to report to a concentration camp. When you arrive at one of those camps there are two lines. One is if you are sick or elderly you were to be killed and the other line is they will force you to work and if you do not there

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    Anne Frank is a girl who had to go into hiding, during the Holocaust. Her, her family, and a few others spent over two years in hiding in a hidden place above her father's office during World War II. Anne Frank’s story tells people about the danger of discrimination, and how important peace is. She educates people about her story. She was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, but Anne lived in Amsterdam with her family during World War II.Anne Frank’s diary, Anne Frank’s diary, was published

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    brought up by the new German company supported racist and antisemitism beliefs started in Dachau in 1933 with the concentration camps. Eventually her family was betrayed and moved to one of those concentration camps like Dachau. Anne and her sister Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Northern Germany where they eventually are assumed to have died of Typhus. They had past away nearly two to three weeks before most camps were liberated by American and U.N. soldiers. Carved

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    Anne Frank Thesis

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    Imagine having to stay in hiding for almost two years with no outside communications, only because of your religion. As terrible as it sounds, that is precisely what Anne Frank was forced to do in an effort to survive the Holocaust. Anne Frank was born Anneliese Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. She gained fame posthumously due to the publication of her diary, The Diary of a Young Girl. After Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party won Germany’s federal election in 1933, Anne and her family

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