Jan Gies

The Diary of Anne Frank Compare/Contrast Essay The Diary of Anne Frank is a story about a 13 year old girl who lived during the holocaust. Her and her family were Jewish and were forced into hiding. They along with 4 other people hid in the attic above Mr. Frank’s office, called the “annex”. The Franks, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel lived there for two years without stepping outside and relying on Miep and Mr. Kraler to bring them basic supplies, food, and information about the world. This…

The Holocaust was a great genocide during World War II where six million Jews and other minority groups were persecuted and massively murdered. Out of the countless people that attempted to escape Nazi oppression, the story of Otto Frank and his wife, Edith Frank along with their two daughters, Anne and Margot has spread awareness of the victims of the Holocaust. The Diary of Anne Frank is a prominent recollection of the experiences that go in depth of how their life was and the interconnections…

Frank is at the time of the 1940s and tells a story of a young bright girl and her family. Mr.Otto Frank returned home only to later realize his family was gone and he was the only survivor. Soon after he was given the diary he gave to Anne from Miep Gies a family friend who help the Franks and the van Daans in the annex. Once he got the diary he was encouraged to publish his child's words under the name of “The Diary of a Young Girl”. Behind a bookshelf was a door which led to the annex which…

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…

“We don’t need the Nazis to destroy us. We’re destroying ourselves.” (559). These words of Mr. Frank show the many multifarious character traits he possesses. In the play The Diary of Anne Frank, the dramatists, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, show Mr. Frank as an optimistic leader (authoritative) that has all of the qualities necessary to hold everyone in the Annex together. Some character traits that Mr. Frank has that makes him a good leader are intelligent (logical), forgiving, and…

In The Diary of Anne Frank, the novel starts off by Anne Frank, herself, celebrating her thirteenth birthday and is given a diary of her own. She describes all of her friends from school that attend her birthday party in a hysterical way. Anne describes her sense of loneliness and feels as if she has no one to confide in. She decides to call this special diary “Kitty.” Anne writes about her family and teaches the reader that she has a mother, father and an older sister named Margot, and that the…

The author of The Diary of A Young Girl is an adolescent Jewish girl named Anne Frank. Despite her many friends and “strings of boy friends”, she feels lonely and believes she does not have a true friend who she can share her feelings with. She writes, “I don’t seem to lack anything. But it’s the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more” (Frank 3). Anne Frank is quick-witted and talkative, which can get her into trouble sometimes. Because of her outspoken and loud personality,…

Renate Wolff. What does that name mean to you? Do you think that she was just a random girl in the past, or the present? Do you think that she was part of something important or did she stand in the shadows? Or, do you think that Renate Wolff was a shy, small girl? She, like many, was part of the Holocaust and one of the 1.5 million Jewish children who were killed or murdered during the 1930s and 1940s. Renate was a little girl in the past who stood in the shadows, and was part of a huge…

Anne Frank Who was Anne Frank? Anne Frank was a young girl who had went through a hard time. Her diary was a way of getting out of everything around her. She used her diary to express her feelings not only impacting her ,but others from all over the world. Anne Frank will never be forgotten for her remarkable childhood, for her inspirational diary ,and her fate at the end. Anne Frank's childhood To begin with, Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her parents were Otto…

would cheer her up, she would say things like "I can shake off anything as long as I write" (Goodrich and Hackett). Anne's family could not go outside the grocery store and go get food they had to have help. A young Dutch woman by the name of Miep Gies gave up her own ration book so that the frank family could have a simple meal. The food was no five star dining it was often rotting food. Although, Anne has always been grateful just to have a simple potato or a slice of bread. Anne could not go…