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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.…

How would it feel to be stuck in a small room living with 7 other 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.…

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…

My favorite character from The Diary of Anne Frank is Otto Frank. He is my favorite character because of his personality. He is really kind, smart, and loving. Mr. Frank loves his family very much and would have done anything for them. I like how close he is with his daughter Anne. He is one of the only people she is able to confide in and one of the only ones that support her. She is a difficult person to understand, but Otto Frank does and loves his daughter. He also was so determined to keep…

The diary of Anne Frank is about a thirteen-year-old a Jewish girl, who had to go into hiding during world war two to hid from the Nazis. Anne frank kept a diary of her experiences while she was hiding. Anne frank went into hiding with her family in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne frank was a young girl who wanted to be treated as an adult and didn't act very maturely. Anne had an older sister named Margot, Margot always helped around the secret annex and was very shy and quiet and kept to…

offspring of a Jewish family. She had entered the University of Vienna in 1901, learning under the wings of Ludwig Boltzmann. After she earned her doctorate degree in 1906, she went to Berlin in 1907 to train with Max Planck and the scientific expert Otto Hahn. She worked alongside Hahn for a long time. Lise became the first woman to be the head of the physics department in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. Hahn and Meitner worked together intently, examining radioactivity, with…

the annex. They have fallen into a pattern for living in hiding, but their terror is still present with the threat of being caught. By the end, the Gestapo found the annex and brought them into concentration camps. Out of all the people hiding, only Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank, survived to be liberated. After seeing both versions, I feel…

talents to Los Angeles to start his own design studio called Saul Bass and Associates and began to work in the film industry. Baas was best known for his work in the movie industry. His first big job in the movies was in 1954 with a production of Otto Preminger, helping to advertise for Carmen Jones. Bass brought ideas to…

Amsterdam, where her father had grew up. In the Frank family it was her father Otto, her mother Edith, and her older sister Margot. Her mother Edith’s family had lived in Amsterdam for more than 400 years. Edith was always teaching them great lessons in charity. Edith married Otto and moved to Frankfurt. Margot was born in 1926, Anne followed 3 years later. Margot was very kind and beautiful (Gies, 78). On Anne’s 13th birthday Otto gave…