Books can help someone escape from reality, learn about the future, and sometimes show how the world could be just as cruel as it is good. For example, Anne Frank’s diary captivated the young writer so much that when she wrote in her diary it was like she was a different person. She went from a happy, loving 13-year-old girl into an intense 40-year-old writer. Author Francine Prose quotes in her book a statement that Miep Giep had once written...
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From 1939 to 1945, a great war known as World War II raged in Europe. A German man by the name of Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany and then the dictator of Germany, fighting to gain control of all of Europe and exterminate anyone whom he considered to not be an “Aryan” German, a member of the so-called “master race” he fabricated, which he believed to be superior to all other races in Europe. While this was happening,...
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INTRODUCTION Close your eyes. Picture being stripped of everything you had ever owned; everything you had ever known. Stripped of your freedom, your dignity, your value as a human being. Marked with a yellow star, branding you as inferior. A target for verbal and physical assault. Forced into hiding. Living in constant uncertainty and fear. Left to wonder how long until you or your family are executed. This horrific scene is not fictional, but rather the tragic reality of Anne...
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Readers throughout the globe have learned concerning the horrors of the Holocaust by reading The Diary of a fille by Anne Frank. Written during a personal vogue, virtually as if you'll hear her speaking, the diary makes readers want they grasp Anne and are given a private window into the nightmare the Holocaust. Translated into over sixty languages, the book has sold-out tens of a lot of copies worldwide. however decades when her diaries were printed below the steering of...
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The film, The Diary of Anne Frank, is based off a diary written by Anne Frank who was a Jewish girl hiding with her family and another family during World War II. The film opened up with the sound of church bells and footage of a truck with survivors of the holocaust. The truck stopped by a factory located in Amsterdam. A man stepped out of the truck and entered the factory and walked up the stairs to the attic...
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The smell of flowers filled the hospital waiting room, my mom and aunt talked, as me and my sister watched the T.V. Their annoyed faces and the low energy suggested that they were tired and wanted to go home. A bright red screen filled up the dimly lit room “Mom, look, the news!”, me and my sister both shouted excitedly. They both turned their heads quickly and gave their attention to the news report. “Oh my God, what happened?”. My...
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In 1942, during World War II, Anne Frank’s older sister Margot Frank was told to report to a ‘labor camp’ by the Nazis. Her parents, Otto and Edith Frank sensed that this was not about work and immediately went into hiding to protect her. They hid in an annex of Otto Frank’s company building and requested for his colleagues to help. One of these people was Miep Gies, who had worked with Otto Frank for a few years. Miep Gies...
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In the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the novel, The Boy at The Top of The Mountain, characters undergo many changes throughout their stories. Anne from the play The Diary of Anne Frank and Pierrot from The Boy at The Top of The Mountain are both dynamic and round characters. A dynamic character undergoes a change throughout literature a round character is well developed and typically a main character. In the play, Anne undergoes the change of being...
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In the dark, silence was maintained. Being loud was dangerous and opening the blinds to see the outside world was forbidden. Anne Frank was shut out from the world, in order to be kept hidden and protected. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl born on June 12, 1929. After World War one, a notorious fascist leader named Adolf Hitler took over her country. He enacted laws named the Nuremberg Laws that controlled the Jew’s freedom. With time, the restrictions...
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‘The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition’ is a book that was written by Anne Frank. She was a Jewish teenage girl who was living in a very difficult time in which Jews were victims of the Nazi laws and persecution during World War II. She received the diary as a birthday present. She wrote on it the most important events toward the war and her everyday life, until three days before all the residents of the Secret...
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This investigation will explore the question: What is the contribution of the two diarists, Anne Frank and Ruth Maier, to historian’s understanding of the Holocaust? The accounts written during the period between 1942 and 1944 will be the main focus of this investigation, to allow for an analysis of their relevance and significance in relation to exploring the Holocaust. The first source which will be evaluated in depth is Annelies Marie Frank’s diary, “The Diary of a Young Girl”, handwritten...
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The Holocaust took place during World War II in 1942. Many Jewish people were being captured and killed while some were going into hiding. Some Jewish people were forced to go to concentration camps and were tested for many things in order to survive. Anne Frank and her family suffered a lot and died in the Holocaust. In the book, “The Diary of a Young Girl”, it talked about how Anne Frank and her family are suffering, going into hiding,...
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ABSTRACT Anne Frank's 'The Diary of a Young Girl' is the most widely read text about the Holocaust and it represents tragic consequences of the Nazi policy to eliminate the Jews of Europe during World War II. This project discusses Anne Frank’s diary as the reflection of an alarming episode from history – the Holocaust or mass genocide of Jews during World War 2. It is an episode which the entire humanity would like to forget and remember as well....
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On July 9, 1942 the Frank family entered into the building that housed the business that employed Mr. Frank. The rooms were on top of the warehouse floor and where it was named the “The Secret Annex.” The family was then accompanied several days later by the Van Daan family. This family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter, Peter was a little older than Anne. These two families attempt to get on with each other...
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About the author The author of the diary, Anne Frank, was a jewish girl in her teenage. Born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany, she spent her early years with her parents and Margot, her older sister by three years. The family moved to Holland, In the summer of 1933, because the Nazis and Adolph Hitler had come to power and began begun to persecute Jews in Germany leading to a critical situation where they resided. In Amsterdam, Anne...
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