Arbeit Macht Frei: The Diary Of Anne Frank

Imagine if you entered a place where you would surely die and on top of a gate you entered in it states “Arbeit Macht Frei”,which in english means “work makes you free” but you know the horrible stories of the concentrations camps.The Holocaust was time when jews were killed and persecuted.They were put in concentration camps to die or to work for the nazis.Many Jews died in the Holocaust .An estimated 6 million jews died because of the nazis. In unit 2 it tells is the story of Anne Frank and how she survived for 2 years.Also how many sources that unit told us about.We can infer The Diary of Anne Frank,Muas,And the the Frank family timeline, The Grand Mosque of Paris.The Information from Fiction and nonfiction gives us much information about

this historical event and allows us to honor and always remember the victims of the Holocaust in many different ways.

First we come and learn about the past through fictional media.Such as the graphic novel Maus and the Diary of Anne Frank ,fiction shows and tells a story in a different way than nonfiction.Fiction tells you info through a story for example the graphic novel of Maus .In Maus Valdek tells the conditions his cousin was living in “The conditions that Miloch was living-you couldn’t believe.”in the panel it shows that they were living under a trash place,(Spiegelman 234.18).This shows how some jews had to hide in places that many people would never think of hiding.There is also an example in the Diary of Anne Frank it shows that they could not run water and only when it was absolutely necessary.This shows how careful they had to be so they wouldn’t be caught by the Gestapo.These two pieces of evidence helps us understand the Holocaust by showing us what jews had to do to stay alive and survive WWI.
Next we learn about nonfiction media like the Frank Family and WWII timeline and the Grand Mosque of Paris.These articles contains many details that help us understand the Holocaust.For example,in the article of the Grand Mosque of Paris it says that the” Mosque was the perfect cover for a jew to hide in.”Also that in the timeline it shows that the Frank Family needed to move because Margot received a card to report to a labor camp .This shows one of many,many,many,many reasons why jews had to hide.In the timeline it states “Nuremberg laws were passed ,stripping jews there right as an German citizen” (Timeline).This evidence explains the Holocaust by giving us reasons why many jews went into hiding. Also why Jews were against so quickly.
Nonfiction and fiction honor the victims of the Holocaust in different ways.Nonfiction honors them by giving facts and telling how things went in order to cause that historical event,and that fiction honors them by putting the story in their eyes ,so the reader can see how it was live and experience a more personal relationship with the victims.In the Grand Mosque of Paris it shows how people helped jewish children by pretending they were muslim.Nonfiction honors the victims by giving a fact about how the victims will have a future generation.Also fiction also honors the victims of the holocaust in many ways too.For example In the diary of Anne Frank it shows “British,Americans,French...All of them D-day they call it”(Goodrich,180).Fictions honors the victims through this quote by showing that not everybody died in the holocaust and that some survived.These pieces of evidence show that nonfiction and fiction honor the victim in different ways.

This is info about how nonfiction and fiction honor the victims of the Holocaust.Through fiction you get see what is like to be in hiding and fight for your survival like a jew back in WWII.And nonfiction honors them by seeing facts,and seeing the more realistic part of the this historical event.In conclusion we see that fiction and nonfiction honor the victims of the Holocaust in different ways but all of the ways honor them a in a very special and different

way.