Miep Gies

History class in itself has a specific purpose which seems to be frequently forgotten. We learn about violent and horrible events in our past, as well as life- changing and positively impacting ones. From the negative events, we learn what went wrong and how to prevent similar tragedies from happening. From the positive, we gather knowledge and comprehension of the basis of our modern society. We are a self- repairing race, analyzing every flaw and figuring out what caused it. It's an ancient practice

During World War II and the Holocaust, morality collapsed. It was no longer easy to differentiate between what was good and what was evil. With a world filled with starvation, dehumanization, and dictatorship, Jewish children had a rough life. They were not free to run away and play; instead they were either in hiding or a camp. The three sources that will be analyzed in this essay demonstrate how the Jews and Gentiles risked their lives to help save innocent Jewish children. One Jew who risked

“I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and the peace and tranquility will return again” (Frank 276-277). What kind of girl would be able to say such a beautiful statement with the possibility of death looming? Anne Frank could view the world in a way that is becoming

unteachable by the school. Mrs. Gruwell, worked two jobs (one at a hotel and as a teacher) to provide books for her students. The students read Zlata’s diary and “ The Diary of Anne Frank”. The class decides to do a fundraiser, to get Zlata Filipovic and Miep

Frank starts out in the annex in the warehouse in Amsterdam, Holland where Anne Frank and seven others hid out during World War II. It opens with Otto Frank and Miep Gies standing in the annex alone in 1945. Mr. Frank had just come home from the concentration camps, being the one survivor from the annex. After conversing for awhile, Miep hands Mr. Frank Anne’s diary from the days of living in the annex. He starts to read the book, as it slowly flashes back to 1942 when it all began… On an early

concentration camps. On July 18, 1945 he met two of his sisters that were at the same camp as Anne and Margot and they delivered the tragic news of their deaths to Otto. Otto Frank was given Anne's Diary which was held safe by the family friend, Miep Gies. She ended up giving it to Otto when he returned home after returning from the concentration camps. When Anne was alive she had expressed interest in having her diary published as a record of her experience. After her death, her father edited her

his things. The buzzer on their door starts to ring. Mr.Frank brings Mrs.Frank a bag. They stand together, waiting. We hear the thud of gun butts on the door, trying to break it down." They were taken to the concentration camps on August 4, 1944. Miep Gies bravely crept into the secret annex and collected the Franks valuable belongings, including Anne 's diary. Anne, unfortunately did not survive the camps. Neither did the majority of the rest of her family; the only one who survived was her father

WORLD WAR SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A TEENAGER Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her mother’s name was Edith Frank and father was Otto Frank who was a lieutenant in the German army during World War 1 and he later became a businessman in Germany and Netherlands. Anne Frank had a sister named Margot Frank who was 3 yrs elder than her. Franks were atypically upper middle class German-Jewish family living in a quiet religiously diverse neighborhood near the outskirts of Frankfurt

Henri Frederic Amiel once said, “Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.” Many times we see ourselves as lesser than what we actually could be. We may let negative perceptions of ourselves and our abilities lead us to believe we’re inferior but it is possible to become strong enough to break those mental barriers. The film Freedom Writers tells a story about at-risk freshmen students who live in toxic environments and a gang-ridden neighborhood while attending

The Holocaust was a period approximately in the same period of the Nazi Party’s power in Germany, and around the length of World War II. It began with just a simple persecution of a minority, but eventually in the later stages of the war it became something much more horrific and detestable. The Nazi Party sent Jews from all of Europe that it controlled into brutal death camps to be exterminated in one of the most bone-chillingly effective attempts at exterminating a people in all of human history