As my last thoughts occurred in my brain, I thought about my life. Is this it? Why are we here? This is cruelty to all Jews. I wonder what the world will be like in 85 years. What if my diary made an impact on millions? Who would be the first to read it? Will my legacy live on for years to come? I hope I find the answer soon. I wonder if Miep got to read my diary. Miep was actually the second one to read it. Otto Frank read the diary before anyone else could. It would slowly start becoming her identity as an individual. “Always Otto would tell me, “Miep you must read it. But always, I couldn’t. I couldn’t relive the miseries, and I wouldn’t rekindle the terrible losses. (miepgies.nl)”. She would not relive the memories of her beloved friends and family. Miep couldn’t read someone’s pain and misery of living in an annex. For example, she would just come in and bring them food, water, books, clothes etc. Miep would see what they went through every day to keep themselves safe from the Nazis. She never got to experience the hardships of living in an annex, so that’s why reading the diary was the most difficult thing to do. Miep did not release the diary until Anne came back. When Otto Frank returned, he gave her confirmation that Anne died in …show more content…
The Austrian SS came into the factory and found all eight people living in the annex. Where was Miep when the Germans found the people in the annex? She was there when they were arrested. “On August 4, 1944, while at her desk at work Gies was confronted by an SS, officer, Karl Silberbauer, who was ordered to investigate the rooms at Prinsengracht 263. (ny daily news.Miep Gies)” Miep couldn’t warn the people in the annex because they would know that she helped them out. She tried to bribe the Austrian SS to not arrest them, but they were stiff about their answer. They arrested everyone in the annex and took them straight to camp. Everyone else downstairs, got questioned a month
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
Kraler and Miep were taken out of the arrest scene, which does not allow the readers to see how they actin real life when they arrest the jews. Mr. Kraler was taken out of the arrest scene which makes the readers wonder what happened to him after the others were taken away. When they were in the Secret Annex, he was downstairs working with the other resistance members or workers when the Nazis barged in. He was shocked that they found out they were hiding jews as he lead up the Nazis to them. The SS officers order Kugler [Mr. Kraler] to lead the way and “Kugler obeys…the men follow them, their pistols drawn” (Müller 6). This means that the SS officers came into Mr. Frank’s building and asked Kugler where the jews were. He obeyed the SS officers by taking them up the flight of stairs to the people in the Secret Annex while he has a pistol behind his body. The reader see how different the arrest scene was because Mr. Kraler was sick in the Annex because he didn’t have a doctor to treat himself because most jews were doctors. He also left before the arrest scene, but in the biography he was there working with the other resistance members. Although Mr. Kraler was shown as a ill man to add tension in the Secret Annex, he was perfectly fine while working downstairs in Mr. Frank’s building. From the play, Miep was not in the Secret Annex when the others were arrested. When Miep spreads the news about the liberation, she soon left before the SS officers took them. She went to
Jews. He took it upon himself and Miep to give the two families in hiding
Miep and Mr. Kraler are the people responsible for helping them hide. They bring them things they need, and make sure to keep their living arrangement a secret. They both show great kindness. The Van Daans and the Franks are told to stay quiet from eight until six, they must remain completely quiet because the annex is above the warehouse, and that’s when the workers will be in. They can stay ...
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...
The families were separated, and in September of 1944, the family was transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp in Poland. Anne and Margot were not killed in the Auschwitz gas chambers but were rather sent to Bergen-Belsen, which was a concentration camp located in northern Germany. The sisters died in March of 1945 from typhus at Bergen-Belsen. After their death, their bodies were simply thrown into an unmarked mass grave. A few weeks after their death in April, Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British. Otto Frank was the only member of the Secret Annex to have survived the Holocaust, having been liberated from Auschwitz by Soviet troops in January of 1945.
Throughout the holocaust, many Jews survived by going into hiding to escape the harsh fates and realities that would otherwise await the opressed. The Diary of a Young Girl allows readers to witness and experience a small idea of what Jews in hiding during the holocaust suffered. Some may have lost one's life, but Otto Frank, Anne's Frank's father, survived the holocaust through hiding. The secret annex became the shelter for Otto Frank, his family, and several others Jews starting July sixth, 1942(www.annefrank.org). The annex provided a barrier from the Nazis and death camps for two years before the Gestapo discovered the Franks and others and sent the Jews to concentration camps for the remainder of the holocaust(www.ushmm.org). The others in hiding with Frank lost their lives, leaving Otto Frank the sole survivor from the secret annex. His time in hiding happened to save his life, making him a survivor of the holocaust(www.ushmm.org).
Anne had to go into hiding right away, and was there for 25 months. Whereas Eva went directly on a train to a concentration camp. Anne and her family knew exactly where they were going to hide. Eva had a bigger obstacle because she had to jump out of the train to find refuge and also did not know where she was going to stay. Anne, if not found, was likely to be pretty safe in the annex, but Eva was very vulnerable and could be killed at any time on the train. Eva never ended up going to a concentration camp, so she was spared from the horrors. On the other hand, Anne had to go to three different camps. Eva survived her work on the farm, however, Anne tragically died two weeks before
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl narrates the journey of adolescent Anne Frank during World War II. The diary allows insight into the changes Anne went through during the war after going into hiding to avoid persecution. Over the course of her time in hiding she matured, and used her diary to voice her innermost thoughts and desires. Anne’s diary shows how she came to terms with change as a result of her circumstances, and how she herself changed as a result.
Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Print.
In the beginning of the story, two characters, Miep and Mr. Kraler, showed how they were very good at heart. Both of them helped all the families in the annex and were loyal and unselfish. Miep and Mr. Kraler tried their best to help the families live and survive the war. They brought them food, news, supplies, and kept them secret and safe throughout the story. They also kept Mr. Frank’s store running. “ Miep or I, or both of us, will be up each day to bring you food and news and find out what our needs are.” This piece of evidence explains how they helped the Franks, Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel. Miep and Mr. Kraler were good at heart because they took others needs before theirs and risked their
The way that the story is told differs in the play and the movie. In the play, it begins with Mr. Frank walking through the annex after returning from the concentration camp while talking to Miep about wanting to leave, when Miep hands Mr. Frank Anne’s diary, and the story is told through a flashback. In the movie version of The Diary Of Anne Frank the story starts with them walking in the rain at night going to the annex to go into hiding, after this you learn why they are going
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....
Anne Frank's personal piece of writing, “Diary of A Young Girl” tells the story of a young girl transitioning to womanhood during the second world war. Along her journey, she uses her diary as a tool for getting rid of her emotional and mental stress. She faces the challenges of becoming a young adult with fellow residents at the Secret Annex, including her sister Margot. Like most girls, her relationship with her sister is bitter - full of conflict and eventually some understanding. Anne deals with her relationship with Margot by writing diary entries because she wants to vent her feelings of frustration, admiration, and jealousy.
In June 1942 Anne received a diary for her 13th birthday. She began to write down her thoughts and experiences in the form of letters to an imaginary friend. One month later the Franks went into hiding in the office building. For the next two years the Frank family shared cramped quarters with four other Jewish people. In the ending the people she lived with were the ones that published her diary.