The Diary of an Anne Frank

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. The Franks and Van Dans were hiding and they suffered many hardships, mentally and physically. Many people in Anne’s situation would have become bitter and resentful, but Anne never would despair. Unlike Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel who accepts the fact that their race is causing them to suffer, Jeanne Wakatsuki in Farewell to Manzanar divulge that she often feels very intolerable and inhibited about her race. During and after World War II, there’s a very... ... middle of paper ... ...mp Elie Wiesel named his story Night, as the motif of the memoir is also “night”.

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. In June 1942 Anne received a diary for her 13th birthday.

How a young girl’s world can change in a short time, and all of a sudden everything changes. This diary puts you into the shoes of Anne Frank that take you through her everyday life, German occupied Holland amidst the beginning of one of mankind’s biggest wars, World War II. The events that she experienced throughout the story lets you see Anne go through many emotions and changes, that at the end give the reader a greater understanding of the world around her. Characters The main protagonist of this autobiography is the author, Anne Frank, a jewish teenage girl living in hiding in Amsterdam with her family to avoid persecution from the Nazis. At the beginning of her diary, she is a young teenage girl just like any other during that period of time.

The name “Anne Frank” is synonymous with hope, optimism, and belief in human good, even in times of relentless evil. Although she only lived to be fifteen, Anne is known and respected throughout the world for the humanistic light her work shed on an infamous time. Born June 12th, 1929, in Germany, she spent her early years in a middle-class Jewish-German family. However, the tranquility of the Frank family and 522,000 other German-Jews’ would be shattered by one of the most nefarious events in history, the Holocaust. Anne’s diary became an influential resource in understanding historical and emotional aspects of the Holocaust.

Seeing the Nazis as a threat to their family, the Franks decided to go in hiding. They, along with the Van Daan’s and Mr. Dussel, lived in the Secret Annex for the next two years. Anne spent her teenage years cooped up, fearing for her own life. Yet, she managed to find a way to mature and grow in he... ... middle of paper ... ...and ultimately, herself. This book was a very good representation of the Jews’ difficult lives during the Holocaust.

Discrimination Against the Jews in Germany from 1933 to 1939 Assignment one: objective 1 =========================== Describe how Jews were discriminated against in Germany from 1933 to 1939. After gaining power, the Nazis had enormous control over every aspect of German life. The Nazis could use the police, courts, schools, newspapers and radio to put into practice their racist beliefs. Jews, who made up less than one percent of the total population in 1933, were the main target of this attack, but the Gypsies and the handi-capped were also singled out for discrimination because they were seen as a threat to the purity of the Aryan race. The Nazis blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in World War I, its economic problems, and for the spread of communist parties throughout Europe, despite the obvious evidence that they didn’t.

As an ordinary Jewish girl who was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, Anne Frank was an incredibly memorable girl due to the publication of her diary. Anne Frank was a liberal Jew; as for she did not follow all the traditions of Judaism. On the fourteenth of August 1944, a group of German uniformed police arrested the Frank family and was sent into The House of Detention, transitioned into the Westerbork Transit Camp and then to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In July 1945, after the Red Cross confirmed the death of the Frank sisters, Otto Frank passed Anne’s diary to historians who made continuous attempts to publish it. The official publication of the diary in 1947 was named Het Achterhuis, and was later on translated into English in 1952, entitled as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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)."

I. Introduction The autobiography book, “The Diary of a Young Girl”, is a collection of Dutch diary entries authored by Anne Frank, a 13-year-old Jewish girl who lived through the atrocities of the Anti-Semitist German Nazi Regime. Beginning on June 14, 1942, the diary, which Anne named “Kitty”, vividly depicts fear-filled stories of the Franks and other Jews in evading racial annihilation. Besides the stories of war, the world-renown personal account narrates a teenage girl’s blossoming and her search for identity, love, and acceptance. The entries end abruptly on August 1, 1944, signifying the Gestapo’s capture of the Frank family and all the other residents of the Secret Annexe, but despite the impermanence of Anne’s life, her legacy endures

For many Jewish people living in Europe, the middle of the twentieth century, including the Cold War period and Nazi regime, was a dreadful period of time with great loss of lives and freedom. Heda Margolius Kovaly, a Jewish woman from Prague, was no exception to the brutality that occurred. Throughout the twentieth century, she suffered and endured some of the toughest experiences of her life. She lived in a concentration camp and escaped during a death march, only to be rejected by her friends and society at home. At the conclusion of World War II, she married Rudolf Margolius, and she was finally able to live a stable life with their son.