June 12, 1929
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main (Deutschland).

1933
Frank’s family moved to Amsterdam.

1935
Anne began Montessori school in Amsterdam.

1939
Grandmother Holländer moved from Aachen in Germany toAmsterdam and arrived at the Frank family lived.

1941
Jews should go to separate schools. Anne and Margot were sent to the Jewish Lyceum.

January 29, 1942
Grandmother Holländer cancer mortality in Amsterdam.

June 12, 1942
  On his thirteenth birthday, the provision of Anne’s diary.

July 5, 1942
Margot is called to work at a camp in Germany.

July 6, 1942
Hide the Frank family went into the house.

August 4, 1944
The people in hiding were arrested.

August 8, 1944
People have to transit camp Westerbork (the Netherlands).

September 3, 1944
Deportation to the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau (inPolish).

September 6, 1944
Arrival at Auschwitz. Anne survived the selection.

October 1944
Anne and Margot were sent to Bergen-Belsen (Germany) were deported.

March 1945
Anne and Margot in Bergen-Belsen.

July 1945
Otto Frank heard that Anne and Margot in Bergen-Belsen was dead. Afterwards, Miep Gies, Anne’s diary to Otto.

June 25, 1947
Otto getting the diary published in the Netherlands.
Page one: The author of Anne FrankAnne Frank wrote not only in his diary, he also wrote the story andcollect beautiful sentences.
About diary.
Anne received her diary for her thirteenth birthday from his parents. He found it a bit odd at the beginning of the diary. He could not imagine anyone in the outpouring of a thirteen year oldgirl is interested. But yes, Anne realizes, in fact it does not matter.”I feel like writing, and much more in my heart about thingsthoroughly and completely the sky.”

Anne writes:
“But I want to move forward, I can not imagine that I have to livelike Mother, Mrs. van pels and all the women who do their job andthen forgotten. I must have something other than my husband and son could devote myself to! Oh yes, I not like most people have lived in vain. ”

Diary book called  ’Kitty’
While in hiding, her diary Anne decided to regard as his friendscalled Kitty, which makes writing easier. In addition, ”and there isthe whole idea of ​​starting a diary” he admitted, did not have a true friend to him. ”I can not kennisjes I do nothing but fun. I never couldcome to talk about something other than the things of everyday totalk or anything to be intimate, there is a node may lack.Confidentiality with me, in any case and the fact that there isunfortunately not possible to work why this diary .. ”

Re-write
When the Frank family in hiding, the first thing Anne packing her diary. And he began once the Secret Annex diligently almost everyday to sign up. The life he leads now is completely different from the carefree life of purpose. Anne is full of life and it is difficult forhim that he can not go out as often and quietly. The diary helps.
“The best of everything I still think that I do what I think and feel at least be able to write, otherwise I really would suffocate.”

Homemade story.
Anne more and more pleasure in writing. In the summer of 1943 he began writing stories homemade. He read them sometimesfor the rest of the population. He also started the book “a goodsentence, a collection of beautiful phrases he writes about other writers.
Auguste wants to read.
Auguste van pels even so bold as to ask if they could read. ”Noma’am,” said Anne politely but firmly. Her sister Margot had moresuccess. Anne promised that he should read a few pieces, but onlyif they are allowed to read the diary of Margot.
Anne rewrites her diary.
On March 28, 1944 Minister Bolkestein urged the Dutch government in exile through the Radio Oranje to keep theirdiaries. Anne hid with the others listen, nothing can be said twice.He began serious editing diaries and call it ”The Secret”.Increasingly clear to him that after the war they wanted to do something with his writing talent. Magnitude dream is to become a journalist and later a famous writer. And if he does not have thetalent to books or papers to write, he could still write forthemselves, if it wishes.
Anne Frank want her diary published after the war, and he began to write again.
After the war, Anne Frank wanted to be a writer or journalist. OnMarch 25, 1944 he wrote: ”Peter, I’m told it’s much easier I will notlet go. So I also told him that I will write more later, Zaal not be a writer, but still next to my job or task is never ignored. ”

News.
On March 28, 1944 hearing extraordinary news hiding fromLondon. Orange on the radio announced that the ministerBolkestein after the war diaries and other important documents willbe collected, so that the history of the Dutch people during World War II for posterity. People immediately think of Anne’s diary.
Anne thought itself is a good idea and wrote: ”Imagine how interesting it would if I were a novel back home will provide. Titlealone will make people think it is a detective story.” In May 1944,taking seriously the idea of ​​a new form: ”Finally , after muchcontemplation I am with my ”Secret” begins, in my head is that far when it can, but in reality it will more or less likely to go, if it ever willcome.
Anne works fast.
Around May 20, 1944 Anne Frank begins his book seriously. In a short time to capture hiding in August 4, 1944 Anne Frank rewritelarge parts of the original diary on loose sheets of paper. Often a simple text editor, but sometimes they let all the parts. That they willbe private. All the diary entries she focuses on Kitty, her imaginaryfriend. Anne Frank’s last loose sheet dated March 29, 1944.
Anne writes:
“But, and this is a big question, will I ever be able to writesomething great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer ?”
While in hiding Anne not only keeps her diary. He also writes short stories. ”A few weeks ago I started trying to write a story,something that was created, where I got the pleasure that my penpile up children.” (August 7, 1943). Some read it for someone elseto hide.
Anne frank and her sister MargotAnne Frank was three years younger than Margot. In terms ofcharacter, they differ greatly. Anne is busy, a comedian and to hidea lot of friends. But he has a serious side, increasing upward inhiding.

Jo Anne Kleiman said about the development during the hideout:”Anne was thirteen when he came here and fifteen when he was taken. In the meantime, he is the son of a young woman.”
Anne and her father.
For hiding Anne Frank really like his father, he was his idol. First time in hiding did not change it. But when he grows up, he took alonger distance. Anne felt the father was not treated as an individual and he felt that he could not trust him because he was so little about him.Anne and her mother.
Anne Frank during hiding, often quarreled with his mother. Thelarge mutual irritation. He realized that the battle to increase by a certain situation: ”The punishment is too violent, just an expression of anger, which I am in real life a few times, stampinghis feet in the locked room and swore at the mother’s back ventedback will do it.”In love with Peter
Anne Frank was not initially welcomed Peter van pels. ”A ratherdull and shy, skinny, less than sixteen years, the company is not the same with a lot of” … But eighteen months later he fell in love withPeter and he got his first kiss from him.

1944 ARRESTAnne, along with others in hiding were arrested. Anne arrived atAuschwitz with her ​​mother and sister in the barracks. Later, Anneand Margot have to Bergen-Belsen. There Anne died in March 1945. He is 15 years old.
On August 4, 1944, in hiding were arrested. Someone had betrayed them. They use the Westerbork transit camp toAuschwitz. Only Otto Frank survived the camp, all the others in hiding were killed. Hermann van pels were killed in gas chambers,Auguste during transport to the train rolled away. The others died of exhaustion and illness. Who is a traitor, never explained.
Margot and Anne in Bergen-Belsen.
After a horrific train journey lasted three days, Margot and AnneFrank in Bergen-Belsen. More and more prisoners fromconcentration camps to Bergen-Belsen other. Overcrowdedcamps and the prisoners arrived. They are placed in the tent. If a few days later a large storm blew all the tents were destroyed. The prisoners are then in one of the crowded barracks right.
Margot and Anne died.
In the winter of 1944 – 1945 exacerbated conditions inBergen-Belsen more. There is little food and sanitary conditionsare dramatic. Many prisoners sick. Margot and Anne Frank gettyphoid. A few weeks before the release of their death camps.
A photo release of prisoners in Bergen-Belsen.

June 26, 1941 was a memorable day of his life. As the saying goes – profit unattainable poor can not be denied – the fateful day Loebis Parlindoengan life changed completely.

Put about
As a young doctor who graduated from Leiden University opened a new practice in Amsterdam, in addition to visiting, Loebis also much visited by the patient. On the day in summer, while having lunch with his wife Jo Soumokil, knock on his door.

At first he thinks there are patients who do not know the hours of practice. But apparently the two guests were members of the Gestapo, the Nazi German occupation of the secret services who asked him to come to Euterpestraat, their headquarters. Very soon, before the afternoon practice he was able to go home.

Soon it turned out to last for four years. Parlindoengan Loebis be moved from Camp Schoorl and Camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands to camps Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen in Germany. He went through his own life in the horrible camp.

Fortunately, the majority of the camp served as a physician Loebis. That’s what saved him. Lubis Parlindoengan write down all the atrocities that happened in his autobiography, entitled “The Nazi Concentration Camp in Indonesia”.

In the book, among others, could be read that at Camp Schoorl, Loebis met Sidartawan, secretary Perhimpoenan Indonesia, PI. Before the war, Loebis had served as chairman of Indonesia student organization in the Netherlands.

Nazi apparently assume PI close to the Dutch Communist Party of CPH, so like the communists, the board of PI-were arrested. This proximity is not accidental, advised the communists were the first party who wanted “Indonesie los van Holland ‘, the Dutch out of Indonesia. Thus their motto on the 1918 elections in the Netherlands.

Which does not seem to know the Nazis were, when he was still chairman, Parlindoengan Loebis PI of the closure would open when it was still close to the Dutch communist party. Dutch historian Harry Poeze of KITLV in Leiden point that Loebis change direction, closer to PI with SDAP, the Dutch social democratic party.

Anne Frank
Graduated as a doctor, of course Parlindoengan Loebis Perhimpoenan also quit in Indonesia. But why is he still hunted Nazi? Loebis could not tell. Also recently learned the reason of his arrest in March 1945, before the liberation of the Buchenwald camp.

Clearly, he was met at Camp Schoorl Sidartawan, Secretary Perhimpoenan Indonesia. There he also heard: the Nazis actually only intended to capture the head of PI. But Setiadjit, the chairman, disappeared. Sidartawan are unlucky, he had to “replace” Setiadjit.

Chairman of the PI is hiding in the numbers De Jordaan, Amsterdam center, definitely was not far from the Jewish girl Anne Frank who hid in her own home, avoid the Nazis.

Son of Maluku
Parlindoengan, Sidartawan together and moved to Camp Amersfoort. But here they parted. In his autobiography, recorded in March 1942 Loebis Parlindoengan Sidartawan Camp moved to Hamburg, he to the Buchenwald camp. Two concentration camp in Germany.

From Camp Hamburg, Secretary Perhimpoenan Indonesia Sidartawan still moved to Camp-Camp Neuengamme and Dachau. But the suffering in the concentration camp is weakening. Malnutrition, torture and hygiene are not stricken with tuberculosis Sidartawan dignified cause.

In early November 1942 he died at Dachau.

According to historian Harry Indonesia Poeze to eight people were killed because they were shot, tortured or ill in Nazi concentration camps. Sidartawan Besides, there are names such as Moen Soendaroe, Irawan Soejono, Victor and Eddy Latuperisa Makatita. Two last names are the military academy cadets KMA in Breda, the Netherlands south.

Makatita want to return to Indonesia to take part against Japan, while Latuperisa active in the underground movement. But Nazi Germany arrested and sentenced to death the two sons of this Moluccas.

Communist advisers
Maluku another son, Donald Poetiray, survived the concentration camp atrocities, as did his brother Henk, even though they get a different camp. Similarly, Herman Keppy who studied two siblings.

Saving a letter sent to the Buchenwald camp Donald from his parents in Den Haag, Herman stressed that as the birth of the Dutch East Indies, Nazi Germany did not assume Donald enemy.Because it allowed him to write a letter to his parents in The Hague, including the receipt of their package.

Herman Keppy showed a letter written by Donald Poetiray. ”He’s not stupid, pay attention to the language of this letter.” In order to qualify for the sensor, the letter was written in German and does not contain an abomination in the camp. ”It was more interesting,” said Herman Keppy vigorously.

In a letter to Donald Poetiray asked her mother visited the house of Tante Hendrien and address had been written. Poetiray family actually did not know Aunt Hendrien, but this is the message that Donald disguised in the camp he met the son of the aunt. That way they know that the child is at camp, so Herman Keppy.

Donald was arrested for running away. It is unclear whether the Nazis told the reason, the uncertainty experienced by Parlindoengan Loebis. New in 1945, when it was in Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Loebis know why he entered the camp.

When asked the name and origin, accidentally glance at the record keeper Parlindoengan Sachsenhausen camp, where the interrogation took place. There are listed himself as “counsel to the leadership of the Communist Party of Holland illegally”.

This allegation is ridiculous. With jest, to his friend he often boasted as “communist advisers”.

Made in Japan
Shortly after the Nazis surrendered, Parlindoengan Loebis free from the Buchenwald camp, although he should join the so-called death march that took him to the front ally. Donald Poetiray liberated by Allied Forces led by General Patton.

The people who survived returned to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, following the Allied liberation, they are also hiding out breathe free air, including many people of Indonesia.

At this moment the people of Indonesia shocked by developments in the homeland. ”A development of the unexpected,” said Harry Poeze. Soekarno-Hatta proclaimed Indonesia’s independence.

In the Netherlands they had put off Indonesia’s struggle for independence, and without them knowing Indonesia declared independence. Carefully they support the independence of Indonesia, knowing they have to make sure first of the new republic was not made in Japan.

“The Diary of A Young Girl” 

Is a memoir of a young girl aged 13years, Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who lived duringWorld War 2. A time when Hitler intensify its genocidal Holocaustclaimed the lives of up to 6 million people in Europe.

In this diary, Anne Frank tells the days hiding with his family at the home of one non-Jews in the Netherlands. Anne tells of fear,anxiety, and pain during the days of his hideout. Not only the fear and anxiety are facing in two years Anne refuge. There he also experienced the joy and fell in love with Peter Van Daan, the son of another family who are also hiding in the same place with theFrank family.

One remarkable thing is his skill of Anne in writing within 2 yearsand how he changed from a headstrong girl into a woman the wiser. Outlook on life counted in for a 15-year-old girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2xHMbM1LK4
Let’s say that his views will be the development of characters:

“To be honest, I can not imagine how someone can say:” I’mweak. ”And still no change. However, if you’re aware of it, why notfight it, why not try to train your character?” Because it’s easier tonot do it! ”the answer is rather discouraging me. easy? Does that mean that a lazy and deceitful life was easy? Oh, no, it can not be true. it should be not true, people are easily tempted by lazinessand money.” (free translation, since I read the English version).

or vision for the laziness:

“Laziness may appear very attractive, but work givessatisfaction.”

“The Diary of A Young Girl” will take you through the days of Anneand let you peek into the lives of families displaced during theSecond World War-2.

Anne Frank wrote her diary while The Nazis were erasing her city and its occupants and while confined to her room as they were closing in out came a mention which must have come from that book. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains”, is a staunch statement of optimism in the face of annihilation. One can marvel at how one could have been as resolute that there was something still wonderful to experience in the face of this gross destruction.

Camus referred to beauty more philosophically as something that drives us to despair, giving us a sense of the eternal that “we should like to stretch out over a lifetime”. The problem is that beauty does not stretch and it may be included in those elements which comprises Eros, it is a fine friend to those that seek pernence in the trappings of life, acquiring worldly goods and creating for ourselves an ‘eternal’ value. In the end beauty like much of amassed fortunes vanishes and we are largely left with a pittance of what was as far the original “beauty” is concerned. It comes and goes as swift as day becomes night and knows no permanence nor can our beauty shield us form the demons of life we wrestle with daily and it certainly cannot shield us from our finite earthly lives and the fear of passing away. But man needs to create the beautiful if only to evade the inevitable and it happens with every civilization.

To be more optimistic and include character as an ingredient in the making of a beautiful person one must not forget the words of a make-up artist who actually contributed to the beauty of models and actresses that landed on the trendy magazines of his day. Kevyn Aucoin was quoted as refering to beauty as having “a lot to do with character”, although one doeesn’t really think of male-up artists coming close to understanding the character of the person they are covering up. He must have come to this conclusion having worked with some beautiful people who had a specific character but one should not ignore that in his work in bringing out natural skin tones, he was not keen in covering up a person’s good looks as much as he wanted his subjects to be naturally beautiful.

According to Spector and Jones (2007), the story of Anne Frank has become manipulated to portray her as an American Icon.  Early plays and representations of her have given the idea that she was perfectly content throughout the period of hiding from death.  Surprisingly, this concept has become so strong that present day students believe that Anne is still alive.  This portrait of the character has been argued by teachers as giving students the opportunity to “become more motivated to learn about the history” (Spector, Jones 2007).  While this may be true, the authors suggest that this strategy may downplay the horror of the Holocaust instead of allowing for intense examination.

The study of this article consisted of Karen Spector, a co-author, visiting a middle class 8th grade English class for two years.  For the first year Spector observed the class during its literature unit on the Holocaust.  Throughout this time she was able to conclude that most of the students saw The Diary of Anne Frank as hopeful instead of sad (2007).  Based off of this finding Spector and Jones, the second author, created a new Holocaust unit that utilized critical literacy.  Spector spent the second year teaching the unit to the class.  During this time she discovered the students believed that they already knew the story before reading it, and they had a strong misconception of Anne Frank due to exposure to only one version of text.

After conducting the experiment, the authors discover some helpful ways to give students a true perspective of the Holocaust.  They suggest that teachers should: analyze why students have their perceptions, use movie clips of the different versions, compare the play and the definitive edition of the story, and raise student awareness of how characterizations and sequencing of events can lead to the acceptation of certain interpretations (Spector, Jones 2007).  These strategies can help students be better prepared to draw a proper conclusion.  Spector and Jones provide teaching tips for each of these strategies in the article. 

After reading this article, a special educator may wonder, “How can I apply the concept of critical literacy to helping my students with disabilities, or learning difficulties?”  Spector and Jones (2007) suggest that using multiple representations of the material will help create a literacy which allows students to examine and recreate their conceptions.  Multiple representations can also help information appeal to all learning styles.  For example: if you have a student who struggles with comprehending written material, then you could show the class different versions of the story on film to provide a visual aspect.  Students may even benefit through role-playing as Anne Frank being captured to provide a kinesthetic feeling of the sadness related to the story. 

Another possible teaching strategy that could come out of this article is the use of graphic organizers.  This could be done by reading the original “fairy-tale” version of the book first, and then providing many other written and visual versions of the story available.  Then the class could design a large Venn diagram that compares and contrasts the different versions of Anne Frank’s story.  Creating these Venn diagrams would get each student actively engaged in the subject.  They would also be evaluating the different representations themselves; thus, having them on a higher level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Along with these ideas, it seems as if there is a vast amount of activities that can come out of this article.  Spector and Jones’ main point of the article is to present information on a subject in as many ways as within the power of the teacher.  Teachers have the power to make learning as interactive and as analytical as possible by using every resource they have.  In doing so, students can learn through multiple intelligences and become analyzers of information; not just regurgitating a text.  Most importantly, presenting information in this way will help develop the comprehension skills of every student regardless of their reading level.

Due to the findings of this article, and the opportunities that it produces, I recommend it to all teachers.  In today’s society it is important to go beyond the traditional habit of memorization and passiveness.  Now more than ever our future generations need to understand the importance of grasping a concept in its full capacity.  Karen Spector and Stephanie Jones have laid a foundation for teachers to stop settling for one-dimensional curriculums, and start bringing multiple representations to the topic.  As seen in the article, students who are only exposed to one representation of material can be vulnerable to misconceptions due to a lack of multiple interpretations.  Therefore, the authors suggest that students who see a story through different points of view are more likely to reach a proper conclusion.  By following their example the power of literacy can fly to greater heights then it has ever seen before.    

Anne Frank

On the 12th of June 1929 Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Her parents Otto and Edith Frank had another child before having Anne, Her older sister Margot. Her father was an officer in the German army in World War II.

Anne Franks was an ordinary German girl who was also Jewish. She enjoyed riding her bike, playing with her toys like any other kid. Anne Frank is known for her Diary. In 1947 it was published as a book in Dutch. Many people were inspired by this little girl’s thoughts and dreams. It was unfortunate for Anne, Hitler was out to get all Jews, In Hitler’s eyes they were ‘different’.
Anne and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 in hope that they would be safe from the German Nazis.
Anne first started writing her diary on her 13th birthday, she called it Kitty. Sadly Anne was not famous until her death in the Bergen-Belsen camp. The diary of Anne Frank was published later on by Otto Frank the only surviving member of Anne’s family who had also been living in the secret Annex.

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I bought the book “diary of a young girl” on a tour during my college days. And I started reading the book about 2 and half years after that. I am very interested in history and the mysterious stuffs in the world like”barmuda triangle”,”UFO” etc.I have already read something about Anne frank during my high school days. That’s the main reason why I bought the book,eventhough I don’t spent money on buying books.

First I started reading the book, but it felt like I don’t understand, so I stopped reading the book, and I thought myself why I bought that book. It may be because I always wanted to know a lot of things like history, facts regarding various countries, also very much amused about ancient events. Whenever I see people intelligent people on TV talk about these subjects, I always felt that I should read more and wants to know more. But it always remained as an undone task. As I am more interested in other things like films, internet, friends etc.

When I read small bits of information about some great personalities, like the sufferings they had, and the adventures they did, I always pictures me in that positions always wanted to do such things in my life.And I think of the fame it will bring on me.

I had similar experience with ANNE Frank’s book. I think of me in her position, even though it has a tragic end. I wonder how much knowledge the people of those times they had. Even though being a 14 year old girl, Anne was a very well expressed intelligent child. I am amazed how beautifully she expresses her emotions. She expressed her fear, her daily routines very clearly. Even though there was a little source of information during those days compared to present days she was well aware of the happenings around the world. She knows even about india,about Gandi,about the freedom struggle in India.

Throughout the book there is a lot of remarks regarding the French course, Latin courses, various books they have read. That clearly shows how much they are interested in reading. They even do exercises in French, translation of French etc.I don’t know how they find such an interest in these activities, when they are unsure about their future. Also the traditions in their family in various occasions, gift sharing etc are very well shown. She says in the diary that she wants to live even after her death, and her dream came true.

Simple truth is, there are many reasons and advantages men and women reveal the day-to-day happenings of these lives. Many of them are:

- It could improve the excellent of one’s writing:

 Holding a regular journal helps to ensure that you’ll get some much-needed exercise regularly, which is very HP2-B88 good if you ever anticipate making a prosperous career through your creating.

-It gives you hindsight in your problems:

In case you come up with the many various items you encounter, whilst up-to-date with how you handle them, then you certainly could possibly pick up patterns inside the behavior of oneself varieties. From their store, you can discover, grow, and make certain you’ll be able to manage complications greater in the future, or else you can keep them from occurring again.

-Writing is able to reduce strain:

 You have poor days. We sometimes only want to scream at someone, throw something about, or conquer the residing snot beyond what ever we come across. Those…can all operate, sure, but you are harmful and hurtful of each your self among others. Ranting with your journal about everything that tick you off if you are inside a awful feeling is many different ways an easy method to ease that anger. There are less hurt emotions, less bruises, less regrets, and much less probabilities to have arrested.

-It might strengthen you memory:

 A good deal would happen to us over the course of 12 months, or possibly a thirty day period, no matter HP2-B89 whether could it or otherwise. You can think about how the days just seem to blur collectively before long. And worse, at times, we are able to neglect some extremely important items, like scheduled meetings and deadlines. For many individuals, creating is a superb approach to much better commit items to memory. At least, a journal can also act as a makeshift planner of kinds.

-You’ll be able to improved have an understanding of yourself:

One could expect that we should be aware of about ourselves, but alas, even we are able to appear alien occasionally. But more than that, often, we just don’t know the thing that makes us tick. We don’t know why we’ve the views we all do, or the way we ever before developed them. With a journal, you can always look at your past thoughts, and mull HP2-B90 over them again.

Anne Frank comes from a wealthy family as her mother is heiress to a scrap metal industry. It is the year 1939 when Anne notices change all around her as her’s and her family basic human rights are taken away. They are forced to register as Jews and are forced to wear yellow stars as it was a symbol of Judaism. On her thirteenth birthday Anne receives a checkered diary that would later become famous. Anne longs to become a woman and experience true love but becomes aware of her own parents relationship not being as full of love as it used to be.

Her diary.Anne’s diary

Anne starts writing immediately in the diary. On Sunday July 1942 M argot her sister receives a letter from the Germans and is to be deported to a labor camp in the East. In a desperate attempt to keep his family together Otto Frank moves his family into the now renowned ” Secret Annex” . In the dairy Anne tells of the exploding bombs at night and her fear of the war itself. Other refugees sought refuge i the annex including Peter whom Anne falls in love with and shares her first kiss.They find comfort in each other and all the while Anne longs for the dreadful war to end. Two years they spent in the small annex. The war does come to an end but not before the tragic death of Anne.

Betrayed.concentration camp

Eventually the Frank’s and others who shared the secret annex, eight in all, were betrayed by the cleaning lady. Anne and her family were transported to Auschwitz. The women were stripped of their clothing and their hair shorn. Sadly Anne dies after suffering from typhus. The only survivor is Otto Frank who later obtains the diary of his daughter and reads it all. The diary is now renowned and movies were made of it contents. Schools also include the diary of Anne Frank into their curriculum. The diary of Anne frank is the heart wrenching story of a teenager who longs for the war to end so that she can carry on with her budding life but the reality of the war shatters all hope of that. Anne Frank will surely be remembered throughout history for her diary and it’s contents. R.I.P.

Anne Frank was born in 21 July 1929 in Frankfurt am Main. The Frank family moved to Amsterdam in 1933. The year the Nazis took control of Germany. She lived most of her life near Amsterdam but was officially German until she lost her nationality owed to the anti-Semitic policies of Nazi Germany. When the Germans occupied the Netherlands, the increasing number of persecuted Jews led to the decision of the Franks going into hiding. They hid in a secret annex, which were the hidden rooms in Otto Frank’s office. They hid there for 2 years until somebody betrayed them and led to the Franks going to concentration camps. Anne and her sister Margot were sent to Bergen-Belsen where they both died of typhus in March 1945. Otto Frank was the only Frank to survive the Holocaust.

Why is Anne Frank Significant?

Anne Frank is significant precisely because she put a face on the Holocaust. Not only a human face but the face of a girl. It not only showed the willingness of the local population to resist German occupation, it also demonstrated the complicity of other sections of the local population with the German occupation. In the end, it was not a random search that found Anne Frank’s hiding place, it was a worker who noted the radio station after he became suspicious and reported this to the Germans.

Another reason why she is significant is because of her age. At her age she understood many of the things going on around her when others her age wouldn’t now the amount she knew. In addition, she was a brilliant writer and could express her thoughts and feelings into her diary. She also had a wish to become a famous writer. This wish was fulfilled when Otto Frank published parts of the diary, with one drawback. The drawback being that she had died before she became famous. She is now known worldwide for her story and her gift of being great at writing. The fact that she died makes many people feel for her because she could have had a wonderful writing career.

My final reason to why she is significant is because she changed how people think about things. She has changed many people’s minds about war and violence; she has changed people who were once convinced that violence was the answer; and most of all she made people think. She has affected many readers of her diary and gained instant popularity. The fact that she was only several days away from being freed when she died, makes it furthermore tragic. She has taught people to not to commit any crimes like the holocaust again; more persuasion coming from her death.

During the Holocaust, Hitler planned to exterminate the Jewish religion and race.  His motives behind his plan are due to his obsession with world power and achieving the perfect Aryan race.  In the 1930s as Hitler came to power, the Jews were prospering and most were wealthy.  Hitler was anti-communist, and he claimed, “75% of all Communists were Jews.”  He believed that they were involved in a plot to take over the world.  Also, the Jews that intermarried into German families were keeping his dream of a perfect Aryan race from coming true.  An Aryan was tall, strong, and had blue eyes and blonde hair.  The Jews, to Hitler, did not have “pleasing qualities.”  To annihilate the threat, he identified them as racially inferior and convinced his followers of this inferiority.

The Holocaust had a severe impact on the Jewish religion.  Of the 6.5 million Jews that lived before the Holocaust, only 200,000 survived.  The Nazis eliminated 97% of the Jews in Europe.  Even after the war, the suffering of the Jews did not stop.  The survivors did not have homes because the Nazis destroyed them.  Many ended up in Displaced Persons (DP) Camps, where they waited to immigrate to Israel.  The Nazis, in a sense, had achieved their goal of eliminating Jews to a certain extent, even though they lost the war.  They killed most of the Jews and eliminated Judaism from Europe, as the Jews immigrated to the Middle East.  The Holocaust had a psychological impact, too.  The survivors were horrified after witnessing death and immense suffering.  They had to deal with the loss of loved ones and the physical pain that the Nazis had caused.  The Holocaust not only had an impact on the Jews, but had a lasting impact on the world as well.  The great powers of the world saw that the power that Hitler obtained was too great for any one country.  The United Nations was created to keep future powers from becoming too powerful.  They were to keep world peace and prevent another World War or Holocaust from happening.

The Holocaust is one of the most famous genocides to ever take place.  Genocide is the systematic elimination of a certain racial, ethnic, political, or cultural group.  The Nazis deliberately planned to exterminate the Jews in the plan to create a third world empire.  Holocaust literally means “burnt offering.”  The Jews that were killed were burnt in the Nazi concentration camps.  Holocaust can also mean any mass slaughter of life.

There were many important people involved in the Holocaust.  Heinrich Himmler was the leader of the SS and carried out the Hitler’s demands with force.  The SS was the police force/army of the Nazis.  The Einsatzgruppen were a branch of the SS.  Led by Reinhard Heydrich, they were the mobile killing squads of the Nazis.  They eliminated the political leaders of Poland and Russia.  They also helped carry out Hitler’s Final Solution, the extermination of the Jews.  The Einsatzgruppen gathered Jews and placed them in ghettos and eventually concentration camps.  Auschwitz was one of these concentration camps.  Located in southern Poland, it was the largest concentration camp ever built.  It opened in October 1941.  It implemented the gas chambers as a faster, easier way to exterminate the Jews.  Zyklon-B was used in the gas chambers at Birkenau.  People also died from malnutrition and sickness.  6,000 people a day were being murdered at the camp.  Dr. Mengele performed medical tests on inmates at the camp.  Most of the experiments were harmful or fatal.  In its time as a concentration camp, Auschwitz claimed 1.2-1.5 million lives.

Anne Frank was a girl who lived during the Holocaust.  She is important because she kept a diary during WWII while she was in hiding.  This eventually became published.  Her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands as the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s.  They hid in an annex (or attic) while the Germans took over in the Netherlands.  Anne, her parents, and her sister shared a hiding place with another family. For 2 years they hid and Anne recorded everything in her diary.  As the Allies moved closer, their spirits rose.  They were too late, though.  On August 4, they were found and seized by the Gestapo (Secret Police of the Nazis).  They were sent to concentration camps, where everyone but Otto Frank, Anne’s father, perished.  Anne died in Bergen-Belson.  Her diary gave another view on the Holocaust and the terrible time in history.

The Holocaust had an immense impact on not only the Jews, but also the world.  The people involved changed history forever, and the events that took place were unlike any other.  As a dark time in history, the Holocaust will forever be remembered.

My Sources: Works Cited

“Frank, Anne”  Who’s Who in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 1999.              Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  Infohio – NOACSC.  16 April 2010 

“Auschwitz”   A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. Jan Palmowski. Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  Infohio – NOACSC.  16 April 2010  

Simkin, John.  “Anti-Semitism.”  Spartacus Educational.  Spartacus Educational.  13 April 2010.  < http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERantisemitism.htm>

“The Holocaust.”  Holocaust Encyclopedia.  1 April 2010.  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  13 April 2010. 

Williams, Sandra S.  “The Impact of the Holocaust on Survivors and Their Children.”  Sandrawilliams.org.  1993.  Sandrawilliams.org.  14 April 2010.