...Anne Frank, a fifteen year old girl who showed the world how the time of Adolf Hitler was in Germany, who spoke out verbally for many about her life during World War II. She had not survived the war but she and her diary have opened eyes around the world. Frank was born on June 12, 1929 to Otto Frank and Edith Frank and died on March 1, 1945; while growing up, Anne and her family moved from Frankfurt, Germany to Amsterdam, Germany because of economic despair causing Adolf Hitler to take control over the government in result of him taking over everybody except Nazis, which were Jews, which was also Frank’s family because they were Jews; when Frank had finally turned thirteen, she had received a diary book from her parents, since the day Anne...
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...page of a “Diary of a Young girl,” consists of Anne Frank’s resilience. Her bravery has been known throughout the world for over 70 years. The three crucial ways Anne was resilient during times of desperate measures was she was very flexible from day one, she had perseverance to overcome her challenges and she used creativity to produce inspiring thinking. Anne Frank was a jewish girl who wrote a diary documenting her life while she was hiding in the secret annex. She is the most well known victim from the Holocaust because of her diary. From 1942-1944 Anne and her family spent their days hiding in the attic of the building her father worked in, until they were betrayed in August 1944. Although she did not survive the Holocaust, the mark...
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...The Diary of A Young Girl is a book about Anne Frank, a thirteen year old girl who is forced to go into hiding with her family. They hide in a small secret annex above Otto Frank’s (her father) office where they had food and supplies in stock. She names her diary Kitty, and writes in it for almost two years. Some news from the radio makes it into her diary, her friendship with Peter van Daan – a teenage boy also in hiding with Anne- as well as her feelings about living In the annex with her family, another family known as the van Daan’s as well as a companion, Mr.Dussel. Anne begins her diary by saying that she wants to confide in the journal like no other. She has never been able to confide in someone like she wants to in this diary that she received for her thirteenth birthday. She starts writing on Sunday June 14th, 1942. In the first section of the diary, she writes about her childhood- her family moved to Holland because her father found a job with a Dutch company. She also has a German background, but is Jewish. She attended a Jewish Lyceum there. She introduces her friends, and all the fun activities she does with them like getting ice cream, going on ferries, and gets treats from secret admirers. She explains how she has some family still in Germany, some who fled to North America, and how her grandmother came with her family to Holland. Anne reveals that the Germans are making all the Jews wear big yellow starts on their shirts so they are easily pointed out. In...
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..."I still believe, in spite of everything, people are truly good at heart." This was the last line that Anne Frank ever wrote in her diary. The Diary of Anne Frank not only showed a girl with extraordinary courage, but exhibits a message of hope through a difficult and terrifying time. She continuously expresses her ideas and her dreams throughout her writing. The diary shines a light on how Anne continues to view the finest version of everyone. Despite this challenging time in her life, she shows a fierce determination to remain as cheerful, hopeful, and optimistic about life. Anne writes extensively in her diary about her hopefulness and optimism surrounding her despite the plague of Nazis. "I want to write," she exclaims, "but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart." Anne constantly is searching for a shred of light in the darkness of her hidden life. She looks into herself and her surroundings, searching for the bright aspects of others and of human nature, as explained within the quote, "I've found that there is always some beauty left in nature, sunshine, in yourself; these can all help you." Anne illustrates this idea: "I can shake off everything when I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." She holds onto her hope...
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...Behind the Publication of Anne Frank’s Diary The Anne Frank Diary is a legacy for humanity. Almost half of the world have read and learned about of the story of three families who had to hide in a secret annex in a factory because they were Jews, and they were being persecuted by the Nazis in the Holocaust. However, not everybody knows how hard was to publish this amazing book, Anne’s wishes to become in author, and the big role of her father, Otto Frank, and Miep Gies to help to this book had been published. Otto Frank began to consider of having the diary published moved by Anne´s repeated wish to be an author. Miep Gies gave Otto Frank the diary and a bundle of loose notes that she had saved in the hope of returning of Anne. But, in July, 1945, the Red Cross confirmed the death of the Anne Frank. Otto Frank later commented that he had not realized Anne had kept such an accurate and well-written record of their time in hiding. He described the painful process of reading the diary, recognizing the events described and recalling that he had already heard some of the more funny episodes read aloud by his daughter. He saw for the first time the more private side of his daughter, and those sections of the diary she had not discussed with anyone. Otto Frank told to a group of Jewish friends about the diary, and one of them was really touched about it. He asked to Otto if he could lend the diary to the historian Jan Romein to read, a good friend of his. Otto Frank hesitated, but...
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...BOOK REPORT Title : The Diary of a Young Girl Author: Anne Frank * Annelies "Anne" Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 when Nazi Germany passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By the beginning of 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne's father, Otto Frank's, office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945. Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first...
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...important, there is one person who deserves their own holiday just as much. That person is Anne Frank. She is an extremely inspiring and influential individual who has moved millions of people all around the world. Anne was not only in hiding for two years but she believed people were still good and because of that, is an inspiration to people all over the world. As you will see, she was such an important and inspiring girl to so many people world wide, she needs a holiday to celebrate her hope and optimism. The first reason she deserves a holiday is because of her extreme situation during the holocaust. Anne...
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...ANNE FRANK - A POSITIVE ATTITUDE HELPS WITH TRIALS People that have a positive attitude are the ones more likely than ever to endure a trial than anyone else who does not have a positive attitude. This fact was especially true in World War II because it helped many people in the concentration camps to endure. In fact, some who endured with a positive attitude became a Holocaust survivor. The theme of "The Diary of Anne Frank" reveals that from childhood to adulthood that having a positive attitude is relevant today when times get harder. Anne did not did not complain or become bitter about hiding or her situation in life. That fact was really commendable for Anne to have a positive attitude because she was living in the time period of the holocaust. Even though the Nazis were cruel, she still believed that there is good in people. In the Drama: "The Diary of Anne Frank", it says: "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." (Frank 1). This quote is a good example of maintaining a positive attitude because Anne...
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...the underlying comments were possibly considered to be “too adult” in nature for children to understand, even if they were written with the audience of a child in mind. There is one book that comes to mind that provides an in-depth education to what life is like from the eyes of a child, being told that she’s too young to understand some events and discussions, in spite of living through them on a daily basis. That book is Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a partial biography of Anne Frank who had received the gift of a diary for her 13th birthday in 1942 (Frank, 1967). The pages in the diary are written in a two year period, beginning on June 14, 1942 and ending with the last entry of August 1, 1944. Anne was a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam Holland whose life, along with her family and most of her friends, was turned upside down simply for being Jewish. Yet, when one reads her diary, it is clear that we could almost be reading the diary of any 13-15 year old girl when the circumstances of war are ignored. For the most part, Anne is a typical 13 year old girl when she starts writing in her journal. As Frank (1967) stated “It’s an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither...
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...about how hard and miserable Anne Frank’s life was since she only lived up to a 16 year old girl? Did you ever think about her childhood? Was her life the same as it was in the Annex? How Anne almost lived her dreadful life in the concentration camp? Anne Frank was a strong and determined girl. Who changed mankind’s point of view through her diary. Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929. According to the book, “Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl” was the second daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Holländer. She had a sister named Margot who was three years old at the time of her birth. Anne was a German Jewish teenager who was forced to go hide in a secret Annex during the Holocaust. “Her family and two other families, spent over two years, during World War II, hiding in an Annex of rooms which was above her father’s office in Amsterdam”, as written in the article ”Who is Anne?”(1). Since her diary was first published in 1947, Anne’s diary has become one of the most powerful memories of the Holocaust. Its message of courage and hope in the face of adversity has reached millions. Anne Frank’s story is especially meaning full to young people today (Thomas). As written in her diary Anne Frank’s life was difficult because Anne was always tempted to walk outside in the sunlight instead of being in an Annex all day. On July 13, 1942 (seven days after the Franks arrived in the Annex), the Van Pels family (called the Van Daans in Anne's published diary) arrived at the Secret Annex...
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...Alaina Anne Frank’s good but sad life Anne says “I Want To Go on living even after my death.” Do you think her wish has come true? Explain. Some people thought that Anne would not live even after her death but she did. Anne's diary was published but not everyone knows about it yet and they don't even know about her yet either. Otto frank anne's father lived through the war and when they were arrested,so he went back to work and found Anne's diary and published it. Anne put all of her feelings and the bad things that were happening in her diary. The war was happening and Anne thought she was going to die. I feel that Anne is a hero and a very strong person. Anne's father Otto frank published her diary because...
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...Anne Frank It was a horrific experience for the Jewish people in Europe during the Holocaust. Anne Frank was a young victim of the time period who shared her experiences in a diary. Her family was forced to leave their native land of Germany and travel to Amsterdam where they sought temporary safety. Surrounded by social chaos, she relied on writing as a form of comfort. Anne became dependent upon her diary as a survival strategy. Her writings demonstrate evidence of positive thinking even with the social suffering and humiliation of Jewish people, environmental obstacles faced by her family, and the emotional rollercoaster for having to deal with social injustice and absurdity of the time. Anne Frank suffered socially throughout the Holocaust...
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...Directly following the Bible; Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the best-selling nonfiction books throughout the world. With over thirty-one million copies sold, the diary has been translated into sixty-seven different languages making Anne Frank a symbol of the six-million Jews killed throughout the Holocaust (Langer). The engaging story of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl contains well-written passages filled with articulate and vivid descriptions of life in the Secret Annex, written by, Anne Frank. While Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl contains few controversial elements; it is an enduring classic that portrays a young girl’s response to her changing life, relationships, mind and body, during the extreme circumstances that constantly surround the world around her. The Diary of a Young Girl begins while following the life of a typical teenage girl, who receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. Like most teenage girls, it seems Anne’s life is solely surrounded with gossip about boys, friends, and school. However, it is in an early entry, where Anne reveals her desire of a true friend to have conversations of value and to be her trusted confident. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, the Franks were forced into hiding. The family moved into a small building above Mr. Frank’s office known as the Secret Annex. For the next two years, the Frank family, the Van Daan family and Mr. Dussel all lived in the Secret Annex while being cut...
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...Merveille Priscila THE LIFE AND TIME OF ANNE FRANK. Thesis: this research will explore the life of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who managed to find hope and goodness in the midst of one of the saddest moments in the history. The holocaust was a terrible event in the history of the world. Millions of stories of sadness came from World War II, however, brings a message of goodness, the story that came from the pages of a diary belonging to a young Jewish girl, Anne Frank. The diary of Anne Frank has been read by millions of people around the world, since the end of World War II. Most Americans read the play that was made from Anne’s diary while they are in school. Aside from her diary and the play that was written, one might wonder who was Anne Frank? This research paper will explore the life of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who managed to find hope and goodness in the midst of the saddest moments in history. Anne’s Birth and Childhood. Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfort, Germany on June 12, 1929. Her parents were Otto and Edith Frank and she had an older sister named Margot Frank. The Frank family was Jewish. For many years, Jewish people lived in Germany without any problems, but when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party were elected in 1933. Life became difficult for German Jews. Because of the trouble with the Nazis, Otto Frank moved to Amsterdam in 1933 to set up a new company with some friends there. Anne lived with her grandparents...
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... Book Reflection Anne, Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl. Doubleday, 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 Summary: Anne Frank’s diary starts in 1942 in Holland where Anne lives with her family. Anne gets the diary as a 13th birthday present. When she first writes, Anne lives a pretty normal kind of life. She goes to school, has a group of friends, has crushes, and does her homework. However, things are getting bad with the whole Nazi situation. Germany is trying to take over Europe and Hitler has imposed a lot of strict rules on the Jews. They wear yellow stars on their clothes so they can be identified at all times, they can only shop in certain stores, etc. But Anne’s life is okay. Then, suddenly, her sister is about to get sent off to a concentration camp (that’s where they kill the Jews and people who help the Jews) so Anne’s whole family move into this tiny secret space in Mr. Frank’s office building. The Van Daans also move in. The diary charts Anne’s life in the Secret Annexe (what they call the hiding place). They all live in fear of being found and sent to their deaths. At the same time, they have to keep on living their day to day lives, so there’s a lot in the book about how Anne’s days go, how she feels, and the daily rituals. Anne starts out as a young teenager but matures both emotionally and physically through the two years she’s in hiding. She and her mom go through tough times, but she and her dad remain close almost always. Anne grows to like Peter...
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