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    Anne Frank’s diary talks about the diary of a young Jewish child named Anne Frank who was forced to hide due to the persecution happening in Europe. The perspective of a 15-year old girl during the time of World War II was highlighted in the book. The thoughts, feelings, emotions, and events that happened in the life of Anne Frank living under unusual conditions were presented in the book. It also describes the perception of Anne Frank about herself, the people around her, and life in general as…

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    “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” This quote by J.K. Rowling shows what people must do to overcome adversity. They have to believe strongly that they can get through difficulties. The play “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, follows the diary written by a young girl during World War II. Anne Frank is only thirteen when her father presents her with a diary, in which she documents what it is like to be a…

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    Imagine growing up in a small hidden space with multiple people. Anne Frank Beyond the Diary was written by Ruud Van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven. Anne Frank and Margot Frank were the two main characters. Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. The Frank family with four other jewish neighbors, spent more than two years during World War II hiding in a secret small annex above her father’s place of work in Amsterdam.…

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    To me, survival means steadily persevering in front of challenges where you might face adversity and even death. Today survival is a lot different than it was 200 years ago. Anne and Krystyna had to face death because what they believed. But today surviving is in our area is staying out of dangerous areas and staying with good influences. The story that I think represented Anne’s the most was Krystyna’s story. Anne and Krystyna were able to use vital survival skills during the tragic and…

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    Anne Frank was living in the annex for two years before she got caught , and was taken to concentration camps , as well as the other people in the annex. They were found on August 4th 1944 , and were shipped by train to their concentration camps on August 8th 1944 , most people in the annex were separated. Mrs.Frank died in camp Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot were separated from their mother, who was soon to die of exhaustion. Anne and Margot still managed to stay together until their…

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    The Franks were an unlucky family that didn’t deserve to be discriminated against, like many families were during this time. They lived in Germany and grew up there. They later moved to the Netherlands because the Nazis were taking over Germany. They family that had to go into hiding because the Nazis started invading the Netherlands. All of them had to live on the top floor of Otto Franks business in a room called, The Secret Annex, with a few other family friends. The door was covered by a…

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    Birth date: 30 August 1912 Birth place: New Zealand: North Island, Wellington. Death date: 7 August 2011 Death place: United Kingdom: England, Greater London, Conflict: Second World War, 1939-194 Full name Nancy Grace Augusta Wake She was married to Henry Nancy wake was a journalist in Paris when one day she saw Jews tied up by the Nazis whipping them she said to herself that she couldn’t even whip a cat so she decided that she would become a spy so she could help with the war. Nancy,…

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    God Provides, The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom was a lady who was in a concentration camp and was released due to a clerical error. She continued on to spread her story and prove that God works miracles even today. She even wrote a book which the 7th grade class at Mile High Adventist Academy read over the past few months. The name of the book is the Hiding Place. The book explains her story and relates it to how we should always trust in God even in the darkest of times, which is a message I…

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    Imagine being born a certain way and being punished for who you were born as. Well Anne Frank didn’t have to imagine this, instead this was her reality. Anne Frank was born a Jew and grew up her first years of childhood as a normal kid. Soon her life turned around and her and all of the Jew population was being punished. The play and the movie were different and alike in many ways, but after analyzing both, the movie is much more preferred. The story of Anne Frank. (Based on The Diary of Anne…

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    How The War Changed Anne Anne Frank was an average teenage girl, with a twist. Although she was going through the same emotional and physical changes any 13 year old would, Anne was living in what could be described as the most gruesome, and life-taking genocide in history- The Holocaust. The Frank family had lived a happy life as Jews. Anne and her sister, Margot going to school everyday, and their parents, Otto and Edith tending to work around the house and Otto working at his business.…

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