According to Anne Frank herself, ¨I hope Kitty [Anne’s imaginary friend] that I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.” Anne Frank wrote this passage in her diary before World War II. She wrote this before Hitler invaded the Netherlands. Previous to the war, Anne’s only problems were school, stress, and girl drama. Little did she know that much more troubling times were ahead of her.…
Throughout the course of over two years, Anne Frank and eight other Jews were forced to live in hiding within their secret Annex that protected them from the horrors of the outside world. These horrors were none other than the Holocaust as Anne and the others were Jews living in Amsterdam during World War II where Adolf Hitler and the Nazis wanted to eliminate all of the Jews during this period of time. While she was living in the Annex, she turned to a diary to communicate everything that was…
Anne Frank is a Jewish girl who has to go into hiding during World War Two to escape from the Nazis. Together with seven others she hides in the secret annex on the Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. After more than two years in hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, is the only one of the eight people to survive. After her death Anne becomes world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding. Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929 in the…
In the Diary of Anne Frank and Night the non-fiction stories theme of change is introduced by the primary character’s terrible experience in the Holocaust. Change is established when the characters had to go through a time where jews were not treated equally as others. In Diary of Anne Frank, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett explains this concept with the character named Anne Frank, when her life changed because a man believed jews are poisonous to the germans. Also, her family and the Van…
arduous times. For example, Anne Frank and Krystyna Chiger both lived through one of the most deleterious events in world history, the Holocaust. The two Jewish girls had to work assiduously to gain their freedom, independence, and survival, causing them to share certain similarities in their survival stories. On the other hand, they had multiple unique features of their survival experiences that caused their lives to also be exceptionally diverse. During the Holocaust, Anne and Krystyna had one…
The Holocaust was an event where Jews were considered inhuman and not worthy of living. The stories during this time were told by lucky survivors as well as through the famous diary written by an optimistic Jewish girl named Anne Frank. The planned genocide was one of the reasons why people felt sympathy towards the Jews, and the need to help. Chiune Sugihara was one of these people. Sugihara was a Consul-General from Japan who traveled to Lithuania at the beginning of World War II and decided…
young girl named Anne Frank. With a diary she received, at the age of thirteen, she became famous for her entries about the world around her, and what the Holocaust was like for a young Jewish girl at the time. The reason her diary is so important today is because she brought the person back to the Jew. As to say, she left us with a real piece of the Holocaust, not a statistic or horror story, just the raw accounts of what happened through her eyes (Ballweg). With her diary, Anne was able to…
What is conflict? Well conflict is a struggle or an opposition that people deal with on a daily basis. Responding to conflict positively is the best thing to do, but it can be challenging. People are different, some people respond to conflict negatively compared to positively, and some people don't really respond to conflict at all. You can't avoid conflict in your life, but the best way to respond to conflict is positively because if you have a positive outlook on things, conflict can…
Life in the Secret Annex Early 1942, Anne and her family, also the Van Pels, stayed in the Secret Annex. First, they hid in Mr.Frank old business place,in the attic.The attic had two floors,there was four bedroom and one bathroom. Then,they were in the Secret Annex for 2 years in hiding.Also, they had to go through some very harsh conditions. The harsh condition where they couldn’t go to school,not allowed outside at all,could not walk in the Secret Annex with shoes on,can’t run water from the…
Anne Frank was one of one million plus Jews that died in the Holocaust. Because Anne Frank was a Jew, she had to wear a Star of David(Gold,1). Anneliese Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany(History.com Staff). Anne had a younger sister Margot(Anne Frank). Her parents were Edith and Otto(Anne Frank). Anne started a Newbrew school in 1935 in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the age of 6 (History.com Staff). She went to this school 2 times a week(Gold,1). Anne and her family…