How Does It Feel To Be Stuck In A Small Room Living With 7 Other People

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How would it feel to be stuck in a small room living with 7 other people? Not only do you have to live with 7 other people, but you have a small amount of food and fear of being caught by the Nazis, so the noise level is almost to the point of nothing. This book is based off of a real story that a girl wrote in her diary. The time that they lived in hiding was two years and she only was thirteen years old, because she was only thirteen things were happening with her, mentally and physically. They have met some friends that are german. This is helpful because the friends that were german would be able to go and buy food and materials that they needed without being caught and sent to a concentration camp. This is the life you would live if you wanted to go into hiding from the Nazi.
Living in isolation would be really hard, but also having the fear of being found by Nazi makes it much worse. If you have claustrophobia this is one of your worst fears and you have to be quiet and having anxiety over being found makes it really hard to stay quiet. With an insufficient amount of food people change emotionally and have a hard time getting along with each other. These
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For two years they have been waiting until this moment and it is almost over. Still in isolation with excitement of the war almost over is still hard to live even with everyone's spirits lifted. One day there was a knock on the door saying “open up quickly quickly” in a german accent and they were taken away but they were happy to see the sky and get fresh air, but after two years they were caught just as the war was about to end. They were sent to the same camp all together then they kept moving camps so they wouldn’t be saved by the allies. In the end everyone dies except Mr.Frank that is reading Anneke's dairy to

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