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    2. The Diary of Anne Frank: Anne Frank’s diary is the most famous account of the Holocaust. Her family was forced into hiding when the Holocaust began. The Gestapo finally arrested Anne and her family on August 4, 1944. Anne Frank’s diary is important because it is a first-hand account of what Jews went through in Germany during World War 2. Her diary describes growing up during the Holocaust. It is a true account of a life in hiding. The diary of Anne Frank is important because it is a window…

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    Holocaust A Hoax Essay

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    In the case of Anne Frank, the wretched story of her and her family’s capture left the millions of readers speechless. Still, however, a small percentage of the masses believe The Diary of Anne Frank was a complex forgery saying, “The Diary of Anne Frank is a hoax. Portions of the diary were written with a ballpoint pen. These pens were not in use at the time Anne Frank lived.(Is the Holocaust a Hoax)” The first ballpoint pen was used in Argentina after World War II in the year 1945…

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    In the play The Diary of Anne Frank, we learn about life in the secret annex, and how many restrictions there were on their daily lives. “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart,” is a famous quote around the world today that came from Anne Frank. . She probably felt this way seeing that so many different people had done kind and nice acts for her throughout her lifetime, and it is hard to believe people could be so cruel and ignorant. The Nazis had treated this…

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    Over six million jews were killed in the Holocaust, “The Devil’s Arithmetic” takes place during the Holocaust. Hannah is a character from “The Devil’s Arithmetic” who is twelve years old, jewish, and is living the lifes of Chaya and Hannah. Although some people think Hannah is showing appreciation towards her jewish heritage, she isn't. Hannah want’s to go back to New Rochelle. People say Hannah wants to stay in lublin because she is being nice to her new family. When Hannah was reading stories…

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    The Book Thief was written by the Australian author Markus Zusak in 2006. The book is about a girl named Liesel Meminger that lives in Nazi Germany during World War II. She lives with her foster family, she has an obsession with books, and so she steals them from everywhere. This story is set in a fictional town called Molching, just outside Munich. Liesel and her friends live in Himmel Street. In this book the point of view is in first person. Death is the narrator and he watches over…

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    Melissa Müller’s text Anne Frank: The Biography, proves that Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s play The Diary of Anne Frank is unjustified in using dramatic license because it makes the reader confused on the role of the resistance, he or she loses the 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…

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    Courage is a very powerful word with various meanings; for example, bravery implies courage with a daring and selfless boldness. In fact, courage is the quality of an individual’s mind or spirit which allows him or her to face a difficulty head on, along with the danger and pain that comes with it, without any fear. This, of course, typically involves overcoming a specific fear, or masking it in a way that is undetectable with one way of accomplishing the former by sheer determination. There are…

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    of what it was like to live a life such as that. As an example, Anne Frank was a writer in the Holocaust but not as a novel or story writer, but a diary writer.Anne Frank didn't survive the Holocaust, but while she hid from the enforcers of the Holocaust, Anne wrote in her own diary. The diary revealed after the building Anne sheltered in freed. The diary became famous as a part of the Holocaust. A second survivor of the Holocaust was Nicholas Winton, committing a selfless act of saving…

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    Anne Frank Traits

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    everything, I still believe people are good at heart.” Anne Frank was only 15 years old when she wrote this quote in her diary. During that time, she was in hiding because the Nazi’s were hunting down Jewish people and forcing them from their homes. Eventually the Nazis found Anne and her family, they perished in a concentration camp, but her friend Miep Gies kept her diary safe. This diary entry teaches us about her character. Anne was resilient, hopeful and optimistic, characteristics that led…

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    Edith Hahn Beer Essay

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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…

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