What Was Miep’s Life Like Before, During, and After the Holocaust? Miep was living in Vienna with her birth parents, then she went into foster care when she was eleven because of food shortages. Her real name was Hermie but her foster parents changed it to Miep at because they thought that was too formal. Miep was born in Austria-Hungary in 1909. In 1925 she visited her birth parents in Vienna. She felt weird there since she hadn’t been there in a while and she realized she wasn’t really close to her parents and she definitely was not close to her sister. The Frank family moved into Miep’s neighborhood where she lived with her foster parents. Eventually while Miep was looking for a job she became an employee of Otto Frank’s at his store Opekta. She became very close with their family, especially Anne. Miep would have dinner with the Franks sometimes and further grew her relationships with each one of them. It all began when Margot Frank got a notice to go to “work” at a …show more content…
So they were placed in the Central Office for Jewish Emigration by the Gestapo. Miep and two others sadly only kept them hidden for two years. Miep tried to bribe an officer to get the families out of the camps. Obviously it didn’t work and she almost got herself in trouble. Miep was the only one left to take care of Opekta since everyone else was traken. After everyone was taken by the Gestapo Miep found Anne’s diary. She kept the diary safe and sound while the Franks and Van Pels were dying in concentration camps. Miep hid the diary in her desk droor until the war was over so Nazis wouldn’t take it. Also she wanted to surprise Anne with it if she ever came back. That didn’t happen because Anne and her sister died in Bergen-Belsen. Otto Frank was the only one to return from the camps out of the two families after liberation. Once he returned from Auschwitz, Miep felt it was necessary to give him Anne’s
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.
The Diary of Anne Frank is about Anne Frank’s life in the Secret Annex hiding from the Nazi’s. The diary shows how the members of the Secret Annex help each other keep hope in spite of dark times.
Living in poverty and not being able to meet basic needs leads the characters to result to desperate measures such as stopping Frank McCourt’s education and taking a job to support the family. Frank is forced to take the job mostly because his father is an alcoholic and uses all the dole money and his wages to buy beer instead of feeding his family. Frank describes this pattern of drinking away the money by saying " When Dad comes home with the drink smell there is no money and Mam screams at him till the Twins cry."(42) This situation lasts until Mr.McCourt leaves to work in England and is never heard from again which forces Frank to take a job at fourteen years old. Frank takes on the role of the head of the family proudly and comments " Its hard to sleep when you know you know the next day you’re fourteen and starting your first job as a man." (p.309) Frank’s ability to provide financial stability leads to greater comfort and living conditions for the family.
As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” (Brainyquote.com) Martin Luther King Jr. was born in January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. King skipped ninth and eleventh grade. He stood up and became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement to try to get equal rights for all. In 1964, he was the youngest to ever receive a Nobel Peace Prize. He is very well known for his "I Have A Dream" speech which took place in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. should be Innovation Academy's most influential person because he was a great public speaker, he supported and helped others, he also influenced others.
After the war Anne’s father, the only one in their family that survived, received Anne’s diary from Miep, the caretaker of the families while they were hiding. One of the most eye catching quotes from Anne’s was” I believe people are really good at heart”, I believe Anne when she says that. I agree with Anne because a lot of people hid Jews during the Holocaust. Miep and Mr. Kraler help the Frank, Van Daan, and Miep’s dentist, Mr. Dussel during the Holocaust. They hid them, even though she knew it was against the law.
Anne Frank was born June 12 1929 in the German town of Frankfurt am Main. She grew up with her parents Edith Frank and Otto Frank and her older sister Margot. Her mother was born in Aachen on January 16, 1900. Her father was born in Frankfurt am Main on May 12, 1889. Lastly her sister was born in Frankfurt am Main on February 16, 1926.
When she filled up her original diary, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, two of the
...and. One of the worst camps, and was often reffered to as a death camp. There they were tatooed, seperated, and they had most of thier hair cut off. Anne's mother, Edith, died of strarvation shortly after Anne and Margot were shipped to another camp called Bergen-Belsen. Both girls died within days of eachother due to Typhus.After the war, the only member of the Frank family that remained was Otto Frank. He returned to his spice buisiness, and also started the Anne Frank Foundation, to teach children about discrimination and how it's wrong.
Mary Cassatt had a wonderful childhood filled with travel and a good education. Mary Stevenson Cassatt was born in Allegheny Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburgh on May 22, 1885 (Encyclopedia of World Biography 2). She was one of seven children, two of which did not make it past infancy (Creative Commons License 3). Her childhood was spent moving throughout Germany and France, (Creative Commons License 4) until her family moved back to Pennsylvania, then continued moving eastward to Lancaster and then to Philadelphia (Creative Commons License 3), where Cassatt started school at age six (Creative Commons License 3). Then continued her schooling at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
Her Mother and Father moved to Des Moines in 1905 leaving the girls with their grandparents. The girls moved back to their parents in Des Moines in 1908.
The Holocaust was a time of sadness for many people. However, one story that took place during the Holocaust was truly inspiring and impacted the lives of many people around the world. This was the story of Anne Frank and her family. Anne Frank was one of over one million Jews who died in the Holocaust (Anne Frank 1). In September 1939, when World War II began, more than one and a half million Jews lived in countries occupied, or soon to be occupied by Hitler (Lee 1). Because of this many families were forced into concentration camps due to Hitler during this time. However, Anne’s family decided to try and avoid the brutal camps by going into hiding in the secret annex. Anne Frank and her family are famously known for Anne’s diary that was found by Miep Gies in the secret annex (Anne Frank 1). Not long after the diary was found, Anne’s story was known all around the world. Anne Frank impacted the lives of many by showing people an insight of what life was really like for Jews under Hitler’s control and being someone who people can look up to. Therefore, Anne Frank impacted the lives of many people around the world and has become a “famous symbol for the lost promise of the children who died in the Holocaust” (Anne Frank 1).
The year is 1942; the Frank family went into a hiding place. It was placed behind a door that was concealed behind a movable book shelf; there were 8 people up there, the Van Pels, Fritz Pfeffer, and Anne Frank’s family. Before this, Anne Frank was a normal teenager, going to movies with friends, and other normal things teens did in that time. The Germans would eventually take over the Netherlands and change Jewish people’s lives drastically. After this change; the Jews must wear the Star of David on their clothing with them everywhere so people know they’re Jewish, walk everywhere, only shop in stores specifically meant for the Jews, schools were changed so Jew...
Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father's office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the two years in hiding which Anne refers to as "a time when the ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when the worst side of human nature predominates, when every one has come to doubt truth, justice and God (pg.327)." Anne kept a diary that was given to her by her father, Otto Frank, on her birthday. Between June 1942 and August 1944, from Anne's thirteenth birthday until shortly after her fifteenth birthday, Anne recorded her feelings, her emotions, and her thoughts, as well as the events that happened to her. "…[I]deas, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered…yet in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart (pg. 327)."
age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in the aid of
Over the time of 25 months, Anne recorded her experiences while hiding from German troops. Her diary describes the fears and emotional conflicts of people crowded together in secrecy. The diary also had its good times apart from its bad such as funny and memorable moments. These include birthday celebrations and Anne’s first experience with falling in love.