Miep Gies

actual account of the arrest, and it also removes the feelings of the gestapo. Miep was not arrested in the annex, which questions the reader why. In the play Miep was in the country. Mr. Kraler, Miep and Mr. Frank survived and they went to meet up with each other to talk about how they got arrested. Miep says, “I got to the country to find food. When I got back, the block was surrounded by police…”(Goodrich & Hackett 433). Miep tells Kraler and Mr. Frank she was in the country, but the…

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…

Reading about Anne Frank’s life certainly has changed my own in a large number of ways. Reading entries from the play and seeing the movie version affected myself by giving a different perspective on someone’s life experience, like how the Germans judged the Jews, but in the movie when the officers figured out about Anne and everybody in the annex they were rushing them to pack and to leave. But when Mr. Frank was getting his suitcase the officer asked him what was in it and how he had it…

Survival, by definition, means “the state or fact of continuing to live”, but personally, life is not all about surviving. What is life without experience? Day to day, people face harsh living conditions- children in Africa are dropping from starvation, Syrians seek refuge from a horrible war, and homeless people in cities need to provide for themselves and families. On a more serious note, there are even worse tales of survival and making it out alive from the past, especially in times of…

Richard Cory: True vs Apperecur Happiness I was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Me and my family are a middle class family and we are Jews. My father is Otto Frank and my mother is Edith Frank and my sister Margot. I go to a wonderful school and have lot of friends. But my father said that we will be moving to Amsterdam in a week which means I will have to make new friends all over again. A week has past and we are all packed ready to go to Amsterdam i said my goodbye to my…

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 typical girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, she crushes on boys, and her academic performance at school. After the German occupation anti-Semitic laws forced Jews into separate schools so, Anne and her older sister, Margot, attended the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. Some bits of news catch Anne's attention and make their…

Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family consisted of her father Otto Frank who she called Pim, her mother Edith Frank, and her sister Margot Frank. Anne’s full name was Anneliese Marie Frank, but she preferred just Anne. As a young girl Anne had a normal life and lived in an upper middle-class family. She moved to Amsterdam in 1933 where she attended Sixth Montessori School. She lived a perfectly normal childhood with plenty of friends. But that would all soon…

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…

Mr. Frank, Mrs. Frank, Margot, Mr. Van Dann, Mrs. Van Dann, Peter and Mr. Dussel. Both the families, the Frank’s and the Van Dann’s go into hiding in the annex to escape from the Nazi’s in WWII. After some time of living in the annex, their helpers Miep and Mr. Krawler secretly supply the families with food and materials needed for living while in the annex. Mr. Dussel a dentist is brought into the annex by Mr. Krawler because Mr. Dussel is a Jew and is seeking for a place to hide so, he is…

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl that died in the Holocaust during World War II. She was born on June 12, 1929, when the Holocaust started she fled to Amsterdam with her family to hide from the Nazis, she was with seven other people, living in the apartment above her dad’s job, called “The Secret Annex.” Her father, Otto Frank was one out of the eight to survive, while the others were killed or were sent to the concentration camps. It was about 2 years after the starting of the Holocaust when they…