another in a smaller space than one house. For example, a young girl named Anne Frank had to go into hiding suddenly one day when one was thirteen years old. Anne went into hiding with many others and stayed in hiding for two years ( “Anne Frank Biography” ). Anne Frank was an important figure throughout the Holocaust because of the diary she kept throughout this event. Another important aspect one needs to talk about is Anne’s childhood. Accordingly, Anne Frank had a wonderful childhood, other…
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…
Anne Frank Essay “Over 1.1 million children died in the Holocaust” (Lehnardt). All of these poor children had a life, a family, a goal, and all the other things that life offered. But because of one man, Adolf Hitler, their hopes and dreams were crushed. Especially since children were particularly targeted because if they lived, they would be the next generation of Jews(Lehnhardt). Among these poor children, was Anne Frank. Even though the Holocaust was a terrible event, if it wouldn’t of…
days before she was taken captive by the Nazis, Anne Frank wrote, “I want to go on living even after my death! And that 's why I 'm so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that 's inside me” (Frank 249, 251). Anne’s hope was that she could create her own legacy through her writing. Anne Frank enlightens the world through her wisdom, though she never knew her work was published. Anne Frank inspires many because she continues to enable…
The book I chose to read was Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay. Rosnay’s book is a great example of diversity. Sarah’s Key explores a little girl like during the holocaust in France. Some examples of diversity in Sarah’s Key are ethnicity, gender inequalities and language barriers. Sarah’s Key is the story about two girls in two different time periods. The book starts in the view of Sarah Starzynski during the time of 1942. Sarah, her mother, and father were collected during the roundup of the…
are dropped to inform the inhabitants to evacuate. The story’s main characters/protagonists, 16-year-old Marie-Laure and 18-year-old Werner Pfennig both have not yet evacuated. Marie-Laure is a blind girl. She is alone in her great-uncle, Etienne’s house. Werner is a soldier in the German army, staying at “the Hotel of Bees”. Marie-Laure is fumbling with a model her father made of the city of Saint-Malo. The model carries a sacred diamond inside named the Sea of Flames. Werner on the other…
taken into hiding for her life. She and her family are in hiding for more than two years with another family and a dentist. During those long years, she waits in fear that everyone in the annex could found. That is what Anne Frank has had to go through. In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne and the other seven hide in an annex above a warehouse. They hid for their lives, because they were Jewish. As Hitler came into power, he restricted Jews and invaded other countries. Due to this, World War ll had…
that was about the life of a young girl named Anne Frank. On Anne Frank thirteenth birthday her parents gave her a diary where she would confide all her secret thoughts. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who family was in danger, so they went into hiding during the World War II in a little section of Anne's father office building. For two years, eight people lived in the Secret Annex. The eight people were Anne, Edith, Otto, and Margot Frank, along with the Frank family was Hermann van…
Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who lived during the mid 1900’s. Due to her religion, her family was a prime target of Hitler who was the current dictator of Germany. Once Hitler had invaded the Netherlands Anne had to go into hiding with her family because they feared for their safety. The new home that they were forced to adapt to was the secret annex and they had spent two years there. During this two year time period Anne lived in fear and was in danger every second of her life. She still…
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart" (Goodrich and Hackett 512). Anne Frank said this before being taken away to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Throughout Anne’s diary, she constantly writes about the positive aspects of her situation and of the people around her. Despite having faced tons of prejudice and discrimination, Anne kept a positive attitude which helped her cope with her emotions. Optimism is the key to dealing with conflict. Many…