Throughout World War II, there were thousands of victims. Many persecuted were killed or tortured, but some lived to tell their story. Despite only living until she was 15, Anne Frank tried her best to survive in difficult conditions. Her story demonstrates the strength of the human nature when pushed to its limit.
Annelies Frank was born in June of 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She had one sister, Margot, who was three years older than her. Her parents were Otto and Edith Frank. Otto worked in his family’s bank while Edith stayed home to watch Anne and her sister. They were a Jewish family along with 6 million others trying to escape the horrific dictator, Adolf Hitler.
Germany was in an economic crisis. Unemployment and poverty were at a high, and by the claims of a racist leader, Jewish people were the problem and were to be blamed
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Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, Bep Voskuijl, and Victor Kugler kept their secret from the other employees working in the warehouse on the ground floor. The fewer people that knew, the better. Everyone had to be extremely quiet during the working hours, but at night and on weekends they could leave the cramped hideout. There was three upper stories to the annex. Anne shared a room with Margot, but when yet another man moved in, Fritz Pfeffer, she shared with him. On Friday, August 4, 1944, at 10:30 in the morning a car pulled up to the entrance of 263 Prinsengracht, where Anne and the rest were hiding. Armed police got out and entered the building. They demanded to know who was in charge and quickly found all eight of them, Anne and her family, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer in the secret annex. One by one they were taken out into the van, that would later put them on a train, four days later, to the deadly concentration camps. After more than two years it was the first time any of them had seen something other than a black hiding
The Holocaust could be best described as the widespread genocide of over eleven million Jews and other undesirables throughout Europe from 1933 to 1945. It all began when Adolf Hitler, Germany's newest leader, enforced the Nuremburg Race Laws. These laws discriminated against Jews and other undesirables and segregated them from the rest of the population. As things grew worse, Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing. The laws even stripped them of their citizenship.
There are many stories, diaries and books from the time of The Holocaust but arguably the most famous of them all is the story of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a teenage Jewish girl who went into hiding in her fathers offices in Amsterdam, The Netherlands when the Nazis called up her older sister, Margot (Anne ??). Just before the call up, Anne had started to write a “diary” which she continued to write when she went into hiding with her family. Throughout the book Anne writes that her worst nightmare is to be discovered (Anne ??). The Franks when into hiding in 1941 in the Annex of the Opekta offices and were arrested by the Nazis in ???. After such a long period of time in hiding there are many suspects for who betraye...
Anne Frank was born in 1929 just at the beginning of turmoil in German society. At the beginning of her life, Frank’s family was a relatively normal German-Jewish family living just outside of Frankfurt. Her father, Otto Frank, was a business owner and her sister, Margot Frank, was three years older than her. They moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1933 because of the threat to their lives because of their Jewish Heritage.
Anne Frank, Jeanne Wakatsuki and Elie Wiesel all are greatly affected by the war, but in different milieus and in different scenarios. Anne Frank was a 13-year-old Jewish girl who was thrown into one of the worst periods in the history of the world: the Holocaust. Though she went through awful things that many people will never experience, she always kept the faith that there was still some good in everyone. She once said, “Despite everything, I still believe people are truly good at heart.” Her diary, which she kept while her family was in hiding from the Nazis, shows the triumph of her spirit over the evil in the world even through the pain of adolescence.
Anne Frank is the essential to understanding the horrors of the Holocaust. Anne’s full name is Annelies Marie Frank. She was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. In her family it’s her father Otto Frank, her mother Edith Frank, her older sister Margret Frank and herself the youngest in the family. Anne was a happy girl she had a lot of friends and always loved being the center of attention. Although Anne did get in trouble a lot unlike Margret who was shy and quiet like her mother. She loved to collect post cards and pictures of movie stars in her free time. (http://www.biography.com/people/anne-frank-9300892). In 1934 the Franks moved to Amsterdam because of the Nazis. \
Anne Frank was an exceptional young woman, but she went through horrific events where she watched her world crumble before her eyes, unable to stop it. Anne was Jewish, so at the time she was see as “wrong“ and would have been put to death upon being spotted. So, in a secret Annex where she was left with her family and others to hide, she wrote in her soon to be famous diary, “In spite of everything, I still believe people are good at heart,” right before she was transported to the death camps. Her quote shows readers even though she was going through something unimaginable, she had faith and believed that there was something better out there for her and her family. Unfortunately, she was never able to see that day. Anne was hopeful, optimistic, forgiving, and courteous. She also had several inspiring quotes
After getting married Otto and Edith Frank settled down in Frankfurt, Germany. They’d soon have their two children. Margrot in 1926, and Anne Frank three years later. In his writing, Otto Frank remembers that the relationship between Anne and her mother was “… not particularly good understanding …” Anne Frank says in her diary, “I need my mother to set a good example … but in most matters she’s an example of what not to do.”
During the time that Hitler was ruling Germany, the jews went through a dark and harsh time. Anne Frank was a 13 year old girl, who was Jewish, that had to go into hiding because of the tragedy. Anne Frank and her fellow family and friends had to hide in captivity for two years. From August of 1942 to September of 1945, Hitler started a war against every jews. During this war, something called the holocaust occurred. This event is something that will always be remembered. Mr. Frank, Pim, picked a hiding spot in Amsterdam for himself and seven, six originally, but then another person came in, others. The living conditions, the freedom, and the relationships with the people differed from when they could be free and not in hiding.
Annelise Marie Frank (Anne Frank) was born June 12, 1929 in Frank Furt Germany. Her father was Otto Frank and her mother was Edith Frank Hollander. She had an older sister named Margot Frank. “Anne was born during an era of political chaos in Germany. (Anne Frank Biography)” Anne Frank’s family wasn’t rich or poor they “were a typical upper middle-class German Jewish family.(Anne Frank Biography.com).”
With the rise of Hitler, Otto Frank, Anne’s father, moved his family to Amsterdam in order to escape the escalating persecution of Jews. Anne attended Amsterdam's Sixth Montessori School and throughout the 1930s experienced a normal childhood, free of anti-semitism. For her thirteenth birthday, Anne received the diary that would encase her everlasting story. On July 5th, 1942, Anne’s sister, Margot, received a notice to be deported to a work camp, leaving no choice but to go into hiding immediately. The Secret Annex, their place of hiding, was located in Otto’s Amsterdam office....
Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Because of their Jewish faith, Anne Frank and her family fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1933 to avoid persecution. After Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1942, the family spent two years living in a small hidden room in Amsterdam in order to elude capture by Nazi occupation forces. They were discovered in 1944 and arrested. Anne was sent to a concentration camp, where she died the following year. Her famous diary of the two years she spent in hiding was later found in the room where she and her family had lived. Anne’s father, Otto, had taken the family to Amsterdam, where he had established a small food products business. When Germany invaded The Netherlands in 1940, the Franks once again became subject to escalating anti-Semitic persecution. In 1941 Anne was required to transfer from a public school to a Jewish school. Secretly, Otto Frank prepared a hiding place by sealing off several rooms at the rear of his Amsterdam office building. A swinging bookcase hid the rooms Frank concealed.
Anne Frank was a 13 year old girl who went into hiding from the Nazi police with her family in the back of her father’s store. Through her journey she wrote a diary showing all the battles the family and a couple of friends of theirs had to overcome, even some devastating outcomes of going into hiding, The Frank family had friends help them even though they weren’t Jewish. They were very courageous, had lots of compassion, and made many sacrifices helping out their friends.
Anne Frank is a Jewish girl who has to go into hiding during World War ll to avoid the Nazis. She had lived with her sister, parents, a doctor, and the Van Pels family. Together with the seven others, she hid in the secret annex on the Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. After almost 2 years in hiding they are discovered and sent to concentration camps. The only one that survived the concentration camps was her dad, Otto Frank. She became world
On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne?s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the 'Secret Annex'. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless.
She wrote “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains” https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/jan/27/the-greatest-anne-frank-quotes-ever in her diary. She seemed to always be positive even though her life was at risk. Still to this day nobody knows which one of the Frank’s family friends betrayed them by telling the Nazi’s where they were hiding. Once they were found they were all sent to concentration camps where only Anne Frank’s father survived. One of Anne Frank’s accomplishments was her diary that put a positive effect on so many people around the world. She changed the lives of every person who read her diary, watched her