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    life back in the 1940’s and the life today. The real life story of Anne’s diary starts out by Hitler gaining power in Germany and the Frank’s escaping Germany just like the rest of the German Jew population. The Frank’s had escaped to Holland where Otto Frank (Anne’s father) had set up a business alongside Jan Gies. On May 10th, 1942 German troops had invaded Holland and five days later the Netherland army had surrendered. Anti-Jew laws had been put in place and the Jews had less and less…

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    Anne Frank

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    Anne Frank, the author of “The Diary of a Young Girl”, was 13 years old when she started to write her diary. Annelies Marie Frank was born into the family with the parents, Otto and Edith Frank on June 12, 1929 in the ancient city of Frankfurt, Germany. Sadly, because of the family being sent away to the camps, Anne died at the age of 16 at Lower Saxony, Germany. The purpose of writing “The Diary of a Young Girl” was to inform about how life was about 75 years ago. Some historical sides to this…

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    Anne Frank Research Paper

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    From the book and movies of the old and new anne frank, my character that i chose was anne frank because i would not want to be but i had no choice, but i had two wonderful parents: Edith and Otto frank, they are the best parents it the world, i would not change anything for my parents. I wish i had a better life, than what i have now, but i can’t change my life, because i can’t control it. Annelies Marie Frank was a german- born diarist and writer, who basically wrote down her life was and…

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    Leona Woods Biography

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    Leona Woods Marshall who later came to be known as Leona Woods Marshall Libby was an American physicist. She was born on August 9, 1919 in La Grange, Illinois. Her studies culminated with the achievement of a doctoral degree in Molecular Spectroscopy from the University of Chicago after which she was recruited into the famous Enrico Fermi’s team to work on the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project was a research and development undertaking during the Second World War that produced the first…

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    Anne Frank Legacy

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    On April 15, 1944, just one hundred eleven days before she was taken captive by the Nazis, Anne Frank wrote, “I want to go on living even after my death! And that 's why I 'm so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that 's inside me” (Frank 249, 251). Anne’s hope was that she could create her own legacy through her writing. Anne Frank enlightens the world through her wisdom, though she never knew her work was published. Anne Frank…

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    escape the Nazi extermination of Jewish people, her family and the Van Daans go into hiding in Amsterdam, Holland. In spite of their efforts to save themselves, all of the Franks and Van Daans are captured and sent to a concentration camp. Only Otto Frank survives the ordeal. The pain of adolescence is a second important theme of the novel. Maturing into adulthood is never easy for a young person, but Anne's growing up is made even more difficult by the external war that rages around…

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    I read Anne Frank’s Tales From The Secret Annex, written by Michel Mok, wich was about a girl named Anne Frank and her sacrifices she did to save her life. She was a young mademoiselle that lived an everyday life until the Germans took over there country. She was forced to hide in a secret annex hoping no German soldier would catch her. Anne Frank once said, “The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damped and lopsided, but there's probably not more comfortable hiding place in all of…

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    The story The Hiding Place is narrated by Corrie ten-Boom. She talked about the trials her family, the ten-Boom family, went through during World War ll. The ten-Booms live in Haarlem, Holland in a house known as the Beje. The book begins with the ten Boom family celebrating the 100th anniversary of the watch shop. In the next few chapters, Corrie talks about her childhood and glad-hearted mother, and the three aunts who once lived in the Beje. After the deaths of Corrie's mother and aunts, it…

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    Number The Stars is a great book based upon a true story. It is placed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941. Years after the war started, the Nazis started to patrol the streets. There are two main characters, Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen, which are best friends. Annemarie and Ellen come face to face with a wild adventure that reveals the danger of knowing the untold, knowing the untold secrets, and knowing the told lies, and the. One of their lives is in serious danger. Annemarie and Ellen…

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    Miep Gies Is A Hero Essay

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    The Holocaust, it was a huge event in national history, and it affected thousands of people. In June of 1942, with the dreaded situation for the Jews, the Franks decided to go into hiding in secret in their office building. Along with a few others, Miep Gies agreed to be a "helper," to them, by bringing them food that she would collect from different food sources, with illegal ration cards her husband had procured as part of the Dutch resistance. Miep and her colleagues also made sure that the…

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