Anne Frank Diary

Light in the Darkness There are so many reasons to be disturbed with the Holocaust, from the horrible treatment of Homosexuals, Gypsies and Jews, to the harsh leader of the country, Adolf Hitler. But, there has also been a few positive events to come out of that horrible time period.

The event that I find most disturbing is the fact that the Jews had to go into hiding in their own country, like the Franks and Van Daans. Many people are familiar with Anne Frank and her diary. She wrote when she could, about the joy that she found but the many burdens she had to bear within hiding. I find it horrible and depressing about the conditions of the living space. For example, there was eight people hiding in one little attic. The family had to be quiet from eight o’clock am to six thirty pm, because the workers could hear them, as well as the running water they used. So they couldn’t run water for cooking, cleaning, etc, when there was workers in the lower part of the building. The food supply had to be used sparingly , and the growing kids of the family didn’t really get the right food they needed to grow healthy and strong. Also, the family was very depressed during the two years of hiding because they lived in constant fear of being found, and

The two used to hate each other, but they came together as a friends to confide in and talk about their lives before they went into hiding, and what their future plans were if they got out of hiding. Their love wasn’t a ‘crush’ kind of love that most kids have today, but one where they loved each other for who they were inside. Unfortunately, the family was betrayed to the Gestapo and they were spilt up into various concentration and work camps, and the two never saw each other again. But Peter and Anne showed everyone something very important; how you can love in even the darkest of