The Holocaust is known as one of the most horrific events that occurred in world history because it was a event that killed around one third of the Jewish population in Europe. One piece of literature that gives us an insight into this time period is the memoir, “Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl.” This novel takes a reader inside the head of a young girl in the middle of a time of war in Amsterdam during World War II. This memoir form takes us into Anne’s emotions and feelings throughout her experience of her and her family hiding from the Nazi’s in the secret annex in a store warehouse building. The secret annex is an attic type space that is concealed by a bookcase, so it seemed if the person did not have any knowledge of it being there they would not know. However, the novel does not start in the Annex, she begins writing about a month before they go into hiding and she gives us details of her
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Jews are only allowed to do their shopping between three and five o’clock and then only in shops which bear the placard “Jewish shop.” Jews must be indoors by eight o’clock and cannot even sit in their own gardens after that hour. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and other places of entertainment . . .” (Frank, 1993, p. 4)
This line from the novel just proves how much control the Nazi state had over everything under Hitler’s rule. In “From the Secret Annex” article, White explains that she finds it interesting that a young girl is able to write to her journal with such a high sense of hope during such an oppressive time in history (White). Anne Frank does not just experience the totalitarianism from the Nazis, but she also deals with it from being confined to the annex with her dad, Otto Frank, in charge of their group in
Jews are only allowed to do their shopping between three and five o’clock and then only in shops which bear the placard “Jewish shop.” Jews must be indoors by eight o’clock and cannot even sit in their own gardens after that hour. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and other places of entertainment . . .” (Frank, 1993, p. 4)
This line from the novel just proves how much control the Nazi state had over everything under Hitler’s rule. In “From the Secret Annex” article, White explains that she finds it interesting that a young girl is able to write to her journal with such a high sense of hope during such an oppressive time in history (White). Anne Frank does not just experience the totalitarianism from the Nazis, but she also deals with it from being confined to the annex with her dad, Otto Frank, in charge of their group in