Anne Frank Journey

Throughout World War II, it was extremely difficult for Jewish people to survive. Anne Frank sacrificed more than she thought she would during World War II; Anne’s difficult journey tells a story that impacts us even to today. Since the early fourth century the persecution of Jews was mainly because Adolf Hitler proposed an idea that the reason Jewish people refused to convert to Christianity was because they were Christ killers (Shawn 2). Hitler had a philosophy that combined hostility with racism. According to Hitler Anti-Semitism preached a myth that Jewishness was a passage of a negative physical and/or mental characteristic which transmitted from blood thus could never be changed(Shawn 2). Hitler created an image in his head that Jewish …show more content…
Jews were deported by train; they were herded like cattle, and were not given food, water, or protection from their journey. The Jews were stripped of clothes, and possessions. Their hair was shaved, and teeth were extracted. Those who did not seem fit to work were systematically starved or shot, but the majorities were killed in chambers that were filled with Prussic acid and Zyclon B gas, from shower heads, and wall vents (Garcia 2). All children younger than 15 were sent directly to the gas cham-bers; Anne Frank who had just turned fifteen was one of the first to be sent (“Remembering” 3). Many of those who were not murdered died of the terrible conditions in which they were kept in (Garcia 2). In 1945, a horrible Typhus Epidemic spread through the camp causing hundreds to die suddenly (Garcia 2). In Anne’s narrow bedroom was where she wrote the diary that has given tens of millions of readers around the world the impression that they were living through the fearful, difficult, and “occasionally” funny experience with Anne (“Remembering” 1). For many Americans, Anne’s diary was their introduction to The Holocaust. At least a quarter were sold in the United States (“Remembering”