...TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT DATES May 12, 1889: Otto Frank (Anne‘s father), is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. April 20, 1889: Adolph Hitler is born in Austria. January 16, 1900: Edith Hollander (Anne’s mother), is born in Aachen, Germany. 1914-1918: Otto Frank serves in German Army during WWI as a lieutenant. Adolph Hitler also serves from 1914-1920, as a Corporal. November 11, 1918: The Armistice which ends World War I is signed. June 23, 1919: Germany accepts the Versailles Treaty. September 12, 1919: Hitler joins the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. January 1923: The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), known as the Nazi Party, holds its first rally in Munich. May 12, 1925: Otto Frank and Edith Hollander are married in Aachen, Germany. July 18, 1925: Mein Kampf, Hitler’s autobiography and anti-Semitic plan, is published. February 16, 1926: The Franks’ first daughter, Margot, is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. June 12, 1929: The Franks’ second daughter, Anneliese Marie or Anne, is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. July 31, 1932: The Nazis receive 37.3 percent of the vote and are asked to form a coalition government. January 30, 1933: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. February 1933: Freedom of speech and assembly is suspended by the Nazi government. March 1933: The Gestapo, or Secret State Police, is established. Dachau, the main concentration camp for...
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...There are not a lot of people that I could live with in such a small place as the Secret Annex. In the play The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, we learn about Anne Frank and the people she was in hiding with such as Mrs. Van Daan. I find Mrs. Van Daan hopeless and theatrical. Anne Frank was a positive and optimistic teen. My favorite character in the play is Anne, while Mrs. Van Daan is my least favorite. I chose Mrs. Van Daan as my least favorite character because she was overly dramatic. She is hard to take when she was so dramatic about things and I would find it very hard to live with her. When no one had heard from Miep in three days, everyone was sitting around worried that something had happened. Mrs. Van...
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...The Diary of Anne Frank Would you family have the strength to sacrifice everything to stay together? The Frank family did. On July 5,1942 Margot Frank, a shy, sixteen year old was ordered to report to a work camp in Germany. To keep his family united Otto Frank decided to go into hiding in a secret annex located in Amsterdam, Holland with his wife Edith and his two daughters Margot and Anne. The Franks were later joined by the Van Daan Family, which included Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter. Then, Mr. Jan Dussel was the last person to live in the secret annex. These eight people had to live together for more than two years. They had become one big family. The main character Anne, an out-going, loud, sociable, thirteen year old found support to get through the two long years from her father, her older sister Margot, and Peter Van Daan. A father and his daughter have a relationship that nobody and nothing can break. A father and daughter relationship is made up of love, respect, and trust. These three words are the key attributes that make Anne and her father’s relationship so special and unbreakable. Many scenes in the play led to conclude that one of the reasons Anne had the strength to keep a positive attitude and never lose hope during the two years in hiding is because of her father. In Act 1 Scene 2 Anne received a special present from her father. Something that she had always longed for, a diary. This diary was extra special to her because it was given to...
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...We all know and love the story of Anne Frank and her famous diary. Her story seems one of a kind, yet with Netherlands State Institution for War Documents already had about 200 similar diaries in 1946 (before Anne's diary was even published), and her own sister wrote a similar diary. If there are so many like hers, what makes Anne’s diary so captivating and memorable to so many? It makes sense that so many know of her tale as her diary has been translated into 70 different languages with over 30 million copies sold. Anne Frank was 13 years old when she went into hiding from the Holocaust. This provided Anne with the firsthand experience to write about the situation she was in at a young yet intelligent age. The mere fact of Anne's experience...
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..."The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." The people who had to live in the Annex didn't get the luxury non-Jewish people got. Freedom was one of those things and they couldn't bring their belongings. The people in the Annex, as well as every Jewish person, had to live in fear every day. During their stay in the Annex, there was a girl named Anne Frank who wrote the "Diary of Anne Frank." In the Annex Anne's description of the Annex was scary and she was scared for her life. Her father Mr. Frank chose the secret Annex to hide because Miep worked below them. As long as they had Miep they could get their supplies. Also, with the help of Miep they were able to...
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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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...their own life. In the Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, a girl named Anne Frank gets a diary and writes about her life during the time of World War 2. She is hiding in this place called the Secret Annex. Along with her parents. Also, another family arrives with them, the Van Daans. Along with their son Peter and their cat Mouschi. During the story, Anne will show a lot of her being positive, but mostly with Peter and his father Otto Frank. Anne remains positive in this environment by wanting to dance with Peter. She remains positive so she can get distracted and not worry about what's going on outside of the Secret Annex. She also acts positively because she is an innocent person. “Peter, where are you going? Come dance with me.” (230). Anne tries to provoke Peter so he can get angry. Also, so Peter can get in trouble and Anne won’t. Anne turns happy after she gets frustrated for a while. In the story, there is a scene when Anne see’s Peter for the first time. Anne gets’s excited because Peter has a cat. Anne is all happy because she had a cat before she went into hiding. But Peter shows Anne a bad attitude because he doesn’t really like Anne....
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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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...you are. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” the authors, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, reveal the personalities and traits of the characters Mr. Frank, Anne Frank, and Peter Van Daan. These aspects of the characters are unveiled by the interactions between each other and their dialogues. In the first three scenes of the play, you can observe Mr. Frank to be caring and welcoming especially with the arrival of Mr. Dussel. Mr. Frank knew the struggles that might arise with the addition of Mr. Dussel in the annex yet he still took him in because he knew it was the right thing to do. He welcomed Mr. Dussel with opened arms and with no hesitation. “Mr. Kraler: ...I know it’s a terrible thing to ask of you, living as you are, but would you take him in with you?” “Mr. Frank: Of course we will.” Mr. Frank was also a very intelligent man. This is expressed through a brief conversation between Mr. Frank, Mrs. Van Daan, and Peter Van Daan. This conversation includes Mrs. Van Daan asking Mr. Frank if he can assist...
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...Lying can be justified when you are going it to help someone else out. Or if it is to protect someone other than yourself. In the “Diaries of Anne Frank” she explains that people lied to help her and her family. The family protecting the Franks lied to help them even though there lives were at risk. This shows that sometimes to protect other people, it’s okay to lie. In article 1 paragraph 2 a survey by the AP-Ipsos poll said that ⅔ poll said that it was okay to lie to help somebody out. I also think that it is okay that if you make a mistake you can lie to save a relationship. So in another AP-Ipsos poll in paragraph 7 of article 1 65% of people said it was okay to lie to avoid hurting someone's feelings. So sometimes that means that you...
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...The diary of a young girl The holocaust for everyone was a terrible thing and horrible things happened to innocent people all because of the Nazis. Then why pick the Jewish people for random reasons? What was the point of the struggle and fights? Was it worth it? Why take away adults lives and children’s like Anne Frank? Anne Frank was just an ordinary girl during the holocaust, but with her diary and the information that was given away, and how well written the diary was she became famous in our century. How Anne frank describes everything as she did and how she told the story she made the diary so explainable. Could such a thing happen again, the Holocaust could happen again? Our decision defines us from making the choices that could help...
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...events that reflected the play in the Diary of Anne Frank was that the world war had affected the lives of others because of the power of hitler . The Holocaust was the systematic, regulatory, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially “ and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German community. The historical events that reflected in the play the diary of Anne frank are that Anne Frank's life has impacted the lives of others because her family background, Anne's time in hiding, and what she expressed in her famous diary all have taken place in the Holocaust. Anne Frank was a German-Jewish diarist. She was known for the diary she wrote while hiding from anti-Jewish persecution in Amsterdam during World War II. Her diary describes with...
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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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...Imagine a war was happening in your city and all you heard were bombs and missiles, this is was the life of a brave 13 year old girl. THE DIARY OF A YOUNG Girl by Anne Frank is a Nonfiction diary which is about a girl named Anne Frank, she tis 13 years old and is hiding from the Nazi’s, who want to take her and her family to the concentration camps which will eventually kill her, but she is was being brave. Anne Frank’s purpose is to document her experience in the annex and what she was doing to stay optimistic. Anne Frank is being brave in the secret annex, where she was hiding to not get found by the Nazie who want to kill her because Hitler wanted “the perfect commentary” and that didn’t include Jewish people, ”Oh, kitty the best part of...
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...Fear and Courage Anne Frank wrote what was life like hiding in an annex away from the Nazi’s invasion. The Diary of Anne Frank written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Anne Frank hides away from the Holocaust and writes about it. The Nazi’s have come to invade Europe. Many Jews have been killed already. The Frank family and the Van Daan family have come into hiding in a secret annex hiding safely from the Holocaust. They hope that one day that they would be free. This is why I think that courage is created when there's fear and fear is created when there's injustice there trying to teach you that usually when there's injustice there's courage as well. Courage is created...
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