Bridget Jones's Diary

of what it was like to live a life such as that. As an example, Anne Frank was a writer in the Holocaust but not as a novel or story writer, but a diary writer.Anne Frank didn't survive the Holocaust, but while she hid from the enforcers of the Holocaust, Anne wrote in her own diary. The diary revealed after the building Anne sheltered in freed. The diary became famous as a part of the Holocaust. A second survivor of the Holocaust was Nicholas Winton, committing a selfless act of saving…

everything, I still believe people are good at heart.” Anne Frank was only 15 years old when she wrote this quote in her diary. During that time, she was in hiding because the Nazi’s were hunting down Jewish people and forcing them from their homes. Eventually the Nazis found Anne and her family, they perished in a concentration camp, but her friend Miep Gies kept her diary safe. This diary entry teaches us about her character. Anne was resilient, hopeful and optimistic, characteristics that led…

Edith Hahn Beer was born in 1914 in Vienna to Leopold and Klothilde Hahn. She was the second of three girls. A very early age she read the newspaper, and had an interest in law and politics. A local teacher saw her interest and told her father that he should send her to the university, which was very unusual for a woman in Vienna during the 1930s. Edith had almost completed her degree when the process between Germany and Austria occurred. After the process she went back to take her last exam to…

Ruth was a young girl when the war started, only about seven years old. Ruth was born in Poland Warsaw and lived there until 1944 with her mother, father, two older sisters and older brother. One large part of Ruth’s life during the time of the war was when she moved back to Warsaw from Russia and her family got put into a ghetto. German trucks began to come into the ghettos and grab people right off the streets and everyone knew that whoever got put onto those truck wouldn’t be coming back.…

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…

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl narrates the emotional journey of adolescent Anne Frank during World War II. The diary allows insight into the changes Anne went through during the war after going into hiding to avoid persecution. Over the course of her time in hiding she develops in maturity, and uses her diary to voice her innermost thoughts and desires and the readers learn what it was like living in those conditions from a perspective during the time. Anne’s diary begins on her…

The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank I’ve chosen to read and write a response to The Diary of a Young Girl for a number of reasons, but the main reasons Anne Frank’s wartime diary stood out to me is because Anne Frank was a fairly normal and typical teenaged child, however unlike us she was unfortunate enough to be born in the soon to be war stricken era 1929, just before one of the worst events in history would soon occur, the rise of the Nazi’s, and the story is somewhat relevant to what is…

When one thinks of the memoir Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, one would often picture Anne Frank and the horrific tragedies of the Holocaust. A lesser known name such as Miep, Gies, however, is one that we should also remember. Miep Gies is a Christian woman who risks her life for two years helping to illegally hide those residing in the “Secret Annex”, namely Anne Frank. Her sacrifices for these Jewish families allows them to safely lead out their lives as chaos unfolds throughout Europe…

years with almost no contact with the outer world. This is exactly what Anne Frank had to experience during the Holocaust. By reading The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, students are given the chance to follow Anne’s thoughts, actions, and feelings throughout her time in the Secret Annexe. Even though a good amount of students would say, “Anne Frank’s diary is so boring,” they should read it anyway because it teaches about Jewish life during the Holocaust, is about a girl our age, and…

Every student in world has a problem that they have to face in life. But, are these issues the same ones that students have to face in the movie Freedom Writers? The students in Freedom Writers have to face life as if they are in a war. Everyday each student walks out of there house wondering if they are going to live. One major problem that the students face is other races hurting them. Each student in that class has a certain group of people that they stay with and those people are their same…