“It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” (Anne Frank) Anne Frank was one of the many children who fell victim to the Holocaust during the World War II. Anne’s story is nothing short of a tragedy; she died at the early age of fifteen from Typhus while being held by the Nazi Regime, in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Before dying, Anne and her family went into hiding and lived secretly in her father's office building in the Netherlands. While living in the “Annex,” a secret hiding place, she developed many interests such as reading and writing. Anne is famous because she is one of the best-known victims of the Holocaust, her story has been shared with millions in a publication of her diary, and through her writing’s she introduces many people to the massacre and its horror. First of all, Anne Frank is only one of a million Jewish children who died during the slaughter and she represents the lost potential of all the children. However, she is one of the most recognized victims because of her diary. Only a small amount of children persecuted during the catastrophe wrote diaries that have survived. Her diary reflects a varied and complex view of a young girl who lived and died during the mass murder. Her diary is one of the best-written diaries authored by a teenager living and hiding during a catastrophe and details a
Ever wondered what the experience for Jews during World War II was like? Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, written by Anne Frank with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, is a series of diary entries that capture the hardships a young girl, Anne Frank, experiences during World War II. Frank had not intended for her diary entries to be read by the world, but when she later died at a concentration camp, her father decided to publish it after being convinced by his family and friends. This piece of work has been recognized by the world and is looked upon as a work of literature that impacts ones emotions deeply from the astonishing story put onto paper by the then 13 year old Anne Frank. The novel provides an insight of the life of a young
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic event in history when about six million Jews lost their lives to the Nazi. It was a very tragic and evil thing that the Nazi’s did. However, a Jewish girl, Anne Frank, said this: “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” Through everything Anne and her family went through, she always saw the good in things. After reading the play about her diary, I would have to agree with Anne’s quote. One of the main reasons I am agreeing with Anne is the kind and selfless thing that she did for her family and the people in the Annex on Hanukkah. However, I can see why you might disagree with Anne and myself by Mr. Van Daan and his selfish and unkind actions.
Jews have perished because of their beliefs since the beginning of time but never have so many Jews been persecuted worldwide as they were in World War II. Anne Frank’s diary reaches a place within all of our hearts because it reminds us how easily the innocents can suffer. Sometimes we may choose to close our eyes or look the other way when unjustifiable things happen in our society and Anne’s tale reminds us that ignorance, in part, claimed her life. Sadly, her story is but one of many of those who died in the Holocaust and as with other Jews, her fate was determined by the country she lived in, her sex and her age.
“Anne Frank is a Jewish girl who has to go into hiding during World War Two to escape from the Nazis … After more than two years in hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration camps … After her death Anne becomes world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding” (annefrank.org). Anne Frank was a young girl who had a bright future, but it was taken away from her by the Nazi’s and Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, Anne Frank was just the typical young girl. During the Holocaust, she had to adapt to a dangerous situation. Then, after her death, she has left a legacy that has impacted the hearts of many. Through Anne Frank’s early childhood years, the years during the Holocaust, and the years after her death she has left
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler took power as chancellor of Germany (Anne Frank Biography). What people did not know was that soon one of the world’s darkest times was on the verge of taking hold. In the next decade, approximately six million Jews died, along with others that Hitler deemed unworthy enough to live. He claimed that he was only making the country stronger by getting rid of those with “bad genes”. There were an uncountable number of strong figures during this period of time, known as the “Holocaust”, and they have all made a great impact on the way that we now view the Holocaust. One of these heroines, is Anne Frank, who has inspired the world with her first-hand knowledge of the Holocaust, allowing us to see the events through the eyes of a child.
Since the holocaust entered the popular culture in countries such as the USA and Ireland, it was mere public ignorance that led to a variety of representations of the tragedy that was the holocaust. One piece of literature that has impacted many peoples’ opinion on the holocaust comes from the diary of Anne Frank, an adolescent girl who was trapped in hiding during the Nazi occupation of her country. The worldwide popularity of the novel led to over 30 million copies being sold and Andrea Pitzer believes ‘came to represent the American interpretation of the holocaust’. The book offers a unique representation of the holocaust in the sense that we do not hear any information from her journey after she is sent to a concentration camp and do not hear any details of her death. The power and effectiveness of the diary however comes from the historical events that surrounded her account. Kee Ribbon’s believes that Anne Franks diary is ‘sequential art’ and has been used worldwide to help people ‘get a grip on the transnational representation of the historical conflict(WW2) beyond the battlefield’. The personal narrative that she provides in her diary also reaches out to that emotional appeal that hooks the audience in the sense that her in-depth personal experiences interests the readers like that of the work of speigleman.
It is easy to say that the Holocaust ravaged Europe itself, but it is worth noting that without Anne’s diary, understanding what the Jews went through would be insurmountably hard. We take our freedom of religion for granted, but when we examine Anne’s diary, our world that we live in is full of obscenity, and despite the havoc, Anne still continues to hope for the end. Her diary left a legacy that gives us invaluable knowledge of what went wrong in our time on earth, to both Anne and history itself. Learning from our mistakes doesn’t fix our future; it only stops us from doing the same actions again, and in doing so, we can shape the world into what Anne envisions: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.”
The ability to analyze and depict the elements that are portrayed in an image is a skill that is practical to own. In your educational career, throughout most subjects you are given hundreds of images to look at. Some are simple and straightforward, and others have a much more deeper meaning to what is really going on. Having the skill to analyze an image and depict all the elements gives you a clearer and broader sense of what is going on. For example the image I have chosen to analyze is of a young jewish girl by the name of Anne Frank who wrote a diary about hiding with her family in Amsterdam during World War II.
Anne and her family trying to evade capture by the Nazi soldiers, went into hiding when she was only at the tender age of thirteen. While in hiding, Anne wrote in a diary which captured her innermost feelings and thoughts this, shows her fast development from a youthful adolescent into a young adult over the years spent in hiding. Although she did not survive to see the end of the war. Her legacy has lived on and has made her a Standout in the Jewish faith because of her close and intimate relationship with God in a time where many blamed him, The fact that she has always tried to be optimistic and put her best foot forward even when things go terribly wrong, and lastly her high level of maturity has made her a source of inspiration to all age groups. After two years of hiding in the secret annex The Nazis soon discovered Anne and her family, they were sent to a death camp.
Frank 's memoir explores a lot about childhood till adolescent development. Out of the family relations Anne Frank had as well as her physical development in an extremely difficulty environment, one can effectively analyze her life in the context of several child development theorists and concepts (Frank, 1997, p. 45). Powerful as well as poignant diarisitic memoir, Anne Frank’s work during her time with her family hiding in a little attic when Amsterdam was under Nazi occupation in the 2nd World War is highly regarded globally. Although Anne 's diary is often considered as an important document of childhood growth as well as discovery of a teenage girl, it has had an enormous effect as a narrative which details the difficulties Jewish citizens faced under the Nazi Party amid the most horrible years of the 2nd World War. Her honest portrayal of time in hiding, placed against the background war, offers a straightforward view into the most tragic period of human history.
More than 1,000,000 children died in the Holocaust. But a well known Jewish child and diarist from this dreadful era was a young girl named Anne Frank. Born June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was living with her mother, father, and older sister Margot. When the day of July 5th, 1942 came, she and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam with four other Jews, after the Nazi’s seized power. Anne was one of the last of her family to arrive in Amsterdam after living with her grandparents in Aachen, Germany. They hid in a secret attic apartment, referred to as the Secret Annex in the diary written by Anne. For two years they lived in the Secret Annex until August 4th, 1944, when the Gestapo, or German police, discovered the hiding place. Anne and her sister Margot
World War II was a catastrophe that affected many Jewish people’s lives across all of Western Europe. One individual who personally documented this experience was Anne Frank. She was a Jewish teenager living in Holland during World War II. Once the Germans began to take Jewish people to concentration camps, Anne and her family had to go into hiding so that they would not be discovered. As the war went on, many events affected Anne’s daily activities and morale. Anne began to document these events and as time went on it became obvious from her entries how much the war changed her. Anne’s situation was different than many other Jewish people during this time because most Jewish people were being killed or tortured in concentration camps while Anne was in hiding.
The Diary of Anne Frank conveys the story of a fourteen year old Jewish girl’s life in hiding during the Holocaust through the pages of a journal she had received as a gift from her father. Anne Frank acquired her diary on her fourteenth birthday and spent every day recording the struggles and events of the time, her feelings and her emotions. After Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazi’s, discovered Anne’s diary, she gave it to her father after Anne died in a concentration camp. Publishing of her diary took place years later and one of her most inspirational quotes, which encouraged so many people to be wonderful and have positive hearts, was written in this publication. That quote was “In spite of everything,
Throughout history, few people have had a greater impact in society than Anne Frank. The book A Diary of a Young Girl isn’t just written about some teenager’s horrific life. This novel is about the hardships and difficulties of a teenage girl going through physical, emotional and spiritual changes while hiding from the clutches of the Nazis. This biography was written in a teenage girls point of view in the format of journal entries. Anne Frank writes about her experiences of living in the Annex, her love life with Peter, growing physically and emotionally into a young lady, and the everyday fear of getting caught by the Nazi’s.
Of the 11 million people who were murdered during the World War II Holocaust, 6 million were Jews and 1.1 million were children. Each one has a story to tell, whether we know it or not- Anne Frank was one of them. Through the vivid narration of her firsthand experience of the war, we can come to perceive the Holocaust in a whole new light, in a way that’s described by an ordinary, determined young girl whose whole life was changed just because of her race, and how millions of other’s lives were too.