Comparing Anne Frank And Other Jews In The Diary Of Anne Frank

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The Experiences of Anne Frank and Other Jews in Hiding Despite several notable contrasts between Anne Frank’s life presented in the play, “The Diary of Anne Frank,” and other accounts of Jewish people in hiding during World War II, the lives of these Jews had more similarities than differences. These people were similar in the way that they lived the same schedule every day. Anne and the other Jews relied on their helpers, who risked their lives willingly, to provide food and other human necessities for them, as well as tried to include aspects of their old lives before the Holocaust into their new lives in hiding. The Jews lived with fear of getting caught by Nazis in the back of their minds. Even though Jewish people may have had different …show more content…

Many of them had the same goal of protecting the Jews, but had different methods to do so. The helpers, Miep and Kraler from“The Diary of Anne Frank” shared some similar goals in helping to hide Jews as other helpers during this time did. Mr. Kraler stated, “This is what we call . . . helping all of the hundreds and hundreds who are hiding” (Goodrich and Hackett 285), meaning that his intention was to help with the cause of hiding Jewish people. Similarly, Jeannine Burk from “Survivor Stories” realized that the woman who helped her did the best she could to hide Burk from the Nazis because “if it were not for her, [Burk] would not be here.” Rolf Joseph from Allan Hall’s article acknowledged that helpers’ necks would be put “on the block of the guillotine” if caught helping Jews, describing that the consequences of getting caught helping Jews would be immediate death. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” Mr. Frank mentioned that the helpers, Miep and Mr. Kraler would face the same fate the people living in the Annex would if they were caught. In the end, it was revealed that Anne’s family was sent to different concentration camps, so if Miep and Mr. Kraler were caught, they would be sent with them. The difference between Anne’s helpers and Burk’s helpers was their relationship to the people they were helping. Anne’s father knew Miep and Mr. Kraler personally, while Burk didn’t “know who [her helper] was.” Even though both Anne and Burk did not establish relationships with their helpers initially, through the play, Anne eventually got to know Miep. Burk, on the other hand, did not “have a clue” about her

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