Fritz Pfeffer

The story The Hiding Place is narrated by Corrie ten-Boom. She talked about the trials her family, the ten-Boom family, went through during World War ll. The ten-Booms live in Haarlem, Holland in a house known as the Beje. The book begins with the ten Boom family celebrating the 100th anniversary of the watch shop. In the next few chapters, Corrie talks about her childhood and glad-hearted mother, and the three aunts who once lived in the Beje. After the deaths of Corrie's mother and aunts, it was only Corrie, her sister Betsie, and her father. In 1940, Holland was invaded by the Nazi. She and her family hid Jews in their home to protect them from being sent to the prison camps. The ten Booms arranged for a secret room to be built in the Béjé, so the Jews would have a place to hide. Not long after, they were caught for hiding Jews and Corrie and her family were sent to prison. Later on the prisoners were shipped by train to Germany, where they were imprisoned at Ravensbrück, a notorious women's concentration camp. The work was hard and Betsie's health began to fail. Betsie ended up dying before the war was over. Corrie was later released because of a clerical error. Corrie arrived back in the Netherlands by January 1945. The ten-Boom family made some very difficult decisions through World War ll, but with their faith, they were protected. The story The Hiding Place takes place in Haarlem, Holland in 1937 in a small house called the Beje. The ten Booms live in the Beje,…

(Anne Frank, 8). Anne, her family, and other Jews had many restrictions against what they can and cannot do. Anne Frank and her family were already prepared to go into hiding. When Margot got a call-up the date to go into hiding moved up earlier than before. “‘Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,’ she whispered” (Anne Frank, 19). Margot had thought that the call-up was for her father but instead was for her. The next day after the call-up they the Anne and her family leave to go…

In November 1942 an eight person joins them in hiding. Fritz Pfeffer, he was a dentist and an acquaintance of both the Franks and the Van Pels family. Four of Otto’s employees helped them. They were always living in constant fear of being discovered and captured. It wasn’t easy for eight people to live in such a small space (Lycett, 14).The atmosphere of the annex in the beginning were calm and pleasant, but the first conflict quickly arose. The people in the annex had to be extremely quiet…

Imagine going into hiding for months or even years. Imagine having to be completely quiet most of the time because every little noise made could put everyone’s lives in danger. This was the life that many Jews had to live. In 1933, a man by the name of Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and destroyed the lives of many innocent Jewish citizens. One of these people being a young girl named Anne Frank. Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne and her family went…

As Anne Frank once said, “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again,” applies to the screenplay “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett because of the moral that is conveyed to us by the author. The “Diary of Anne Frank” is about a Jewish thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank who goes into hiding with her family and family friends whose names are Mr. Frank, Mrs. Frank, Margot, Mr. Van Dann, Mrs. Van Dann, Peter and Mr.…

Many people are affected by their surroundings. This includes the environment they are in and the people around them. While in hiding, this also applied to Anne Frank. The way she was treated by those in the annex with her changed her. The way her family, the van Daans’, and Mr. Dussel treated her had a big effect. The way she argued with the adults, trusted no one, and only loved a few people show her change in becoming more independant, closed off, and mature, mostly because of those around…

The diary of Anne frank recently celebrated its 70th anniversary on January 1, 2016. Nevertheless, after seventy years of publication, there are still some issues with the text. The Diary of a Young Girl is, as the name implies, a diary. This fact brings up a number of issues with the publications of this text. Throughout the seventy years of publications, this diary has had various versions, published in many languages. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, edited these versions in order to maximize their…

Anne’s diary begins on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942, and ends shortly after her fifteenth. At the start of her diary, Anne describes fairly typical girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, her crushes on boys, and her academic performance at school. Because anti-Semitic laws forced Jews into separate schools, Anne and her older sister, Margot, attended the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. The Franks had moved to the Netherlands in the years leading up to World…

The Diary of a Young Girl (The Diary of Anne Frank) is one of the most shocking testimonies about anti-Semitism during the II. World War. A little girl Anne Frank received a diary on her 13. birthday and from the twelfth of June, 1942 until the first of August, 1944 she wrote down all of her experiences. After being published, her diary was used as a base for many plays and movies. Anne Frank was a happy and chatty girl that celebrated her thirteenth birthday on June the twelfth, 1942. As a…

Anne Frank: Knowing a Girl Through her Diary Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is about her struggle to find her identity-not only as a teenage girl, but as a Dutch Jew who would eventually be persecuted for her faith. Anne Frank’s development from a giddy preteen into an introspective mature young woman as a result of being trapped as her religion is extraordinary. Anne Frank’s conflicts are rooted in her being trapped as a result of her religion. Her conflict begins once her father Otto…