Fritz Pfeffer

building and found the families. The families were arrested and sent to different concentration camps. The Jews found hiding were identified as Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Anne Frank, Margot Frank, Peter van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Hermann van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer. The office building address that they were hiding in were hiding in is Prinsengracht 263-267,…

Amsterdam is a country that held many Jews including Anne Frank at the time of World War 2. In 1947 Germans arrested these Jews in Amsterdam and deported them to the first ever concentration camp and Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the secret annex. Life in Amsterdam for Jews and was no longer a safe place for them. Many sections in the city were banned from Jews and stateless Jews were immediately Transported to the Westerbork Transit camp. After Hitler’s raid on Amsterdam, the…

Before World War II, a total of nine million Jews lived in Europe. During the years of the Holocaust, six million were murdered by Hitler’s regime, or the Nazis. Through literature, we can be educated about the horrors brought on by the Holocaust, and honor the victims who suffered from them. Literature can also reveal how the Holocaust wreaked havoc among its victims by helping us to understand the effects of preconception on the victims of it, the truths of past events, and help prevent events…

was liberated on April 15, 1945. In 1944 Herman Van Pels died Auschwitz, his son Peter died in May 1945 at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and his wife Auguste is said to have died at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1945. Fritz Pfeffer died in late December 1944 at the Neuengamme concentration camp. Otto Frank was the only one from the Secret Annex to survive; he was liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. After his release from Auschwitz he returned to Amsterdam…

Recently, the grade 10 class of BCS had the privilege of seeing the Diary of Anne Frank in play form at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, Ontario. The director Jillian Keiley had started the play by lining out the 19 actors and having them all tell stories from when they were 13. Anne Frank was also thirteen was she went into hiding in the Secret Annex. This gave a sense of understanding the difference between life back in the 1940’s and the life today. The real life story of Anne’s diary starts…

Temi Aminu The Diary of A Young Girl Big Idea: Persecution of the Jews in World War II Essential Questions: 1.Why does religion has to be a big problem? 2.How does people protect other members from society? Summary: This book was a diary 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…

Anne Frank and her life in the annex are of huge significance to the holocaust. She and her family are forced to survive in a tiny annex until the war is over. Her stories not only give inspiration to people but give an insight to what life was like during the war for a Jew. After hearing her stories, it is clear she is just a confused child, not a stereotype. Anne Frank's life symbolizes perseverance, prejudice, and survival of adolescence. Initially, it can be concluded that Anne Frank’s…

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…

Annelies Frank is the most memorable victim of the Holocaust. At only thirteen years old she received her diary as a birthday present and used it as a way to cope with conditions of being in hiding- of being alone. Her diary has become the most read novel pertaining to the Holocaust. She left a legacy of the horrid things that the Nazis did during their reign and although she never intended it to do such, she wrote something that eventually was translated into 67 languages, has been read by…

Anne Frank The Girl in Hiding Anne Frank once said, “I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.” Many people know Anne Frank as a girl who wrote a diary about Hitler, but she did more. She always saw the bright side of things, so she taught the world how to be positive during negative times. She also helped America learn about Hitler and what he did and how one little girl can stand up against a whole army of men. Anne Frank has a legacy for staying strong and…