Historical Perspective from “The Diary of Anne Frank” The historical events in the play helped the readers understand what was going on when Anne and her family went into hiding during World War II. In 1935 the Nuremberg laws are passed in Germany stripping Jews of their rights as German citizens. Laws passed over the next several years further isolate Jews including the requirement to wear a yellow Star of David. Germany invades Poland triggering the beginning of World War II. Growing Nazi restrictions
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How would you feel if you couldn’t go outside to play on the streets with your friends or even call them for around two years? Accordingly‚ Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during World War II. As mentioned above‚ this resulted in exactly what it sounds to be. Anne Frank had to act as if she didn’t exist. In fact‚ her and a few other people all hid in an annex of rooms above her father’s office. Meanwhile‚ she received a gift during this time to write down
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concentration camp was a young girl named Anne Frank. She was and is a very famous girl because of her recording that time of her life by writing a diary during the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust was a very terrible time in history‚ many people only learned of it because of Anne Frank’s life and her works. “Anne Frank was born on June 12‚ 1929‚ in Frankfurt‚ Germany”(“Born”). Her parents were named Otto and Edith Frank. Anne Frank had one older sibling named Margot.“Anne Frank and her sister died in a concentration
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Anne Frank a victim of the Holocaust who went into hiding for two years with her family and a few others due to their religion. While she was in hiding‚ she wrote a diary of her time in there and how she and the others lived. Her diary was published which was called “The Diary of a Young Girl” and a play‚ The Diary of Anne Frank. As she was in a place called the secret Annex who two others helped them hide Miep Gies and Mr.Kraler. The others who were in the Annex with her was Edith Frank‚ Otto Frank
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people. There is an innocence that is forever lost. An innocence that can never be gained back. Change is inevitable. Change‚ in Mary Anne Bell’s case‚ is here to stay. It has its way of affecting each and every person it encounters. In the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ he incorporates an innocent city girl into the wild jungle of war in Vietnam; Mary Anne Bell. Because Mark Fossie decides to take a drastic measure and fly his girlfriend to Vietnam during one of the most brutal wars‚ she
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the Holocaust. ‘’ The boy on the wooden box’’ and ‘’Anne Frank’’ are a great representation that having a positive attitude is the best response to conflict‚ especially in the time of war. (TBOTWB) is a book about the life of Leon Leyson who is a boy who he and his family are taken to concentration camps and have to work Schindler hires Leon and cares for him and ends up getting his mom’s camp switched and ends up saving him and his family. Anne Frank is a diary of a young girl who is taken to a concentration
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Miep and Anne are different because Anne thinks that she deserves to know what is going on in the War. Miep thinks that she should not know what is going on in the War because she thinks that her emotions will get to her and she will freak out about it. Some people think that it is more important to notice Meip and Anne’s similarities than their differences. “Meanwhile the oppression of the Jews continued unabated. They now had to be in their homes from eight at night until six in the morning..
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Anne Frank is a very influential historical figure whose diary has helped everyone all over the world learn about the Holocaust and what it is like to be a Jewish person in hiding. The Holocaust was a time period where the Nazi’s killed as many Jewish people as they possibly could. The majority of Jewish people had gone into hiding during this time period. In her diary‚ Anne describes life in the Secret Annex and why they chose to live in the Annex rather than anywhere else. She also talks about
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The Diary of Anne Frank Between 1941 and 1945‚ Jews were targeted and severely massacred creating the largest genocide to happen during the 20th century. During the Holocaust‚ over 11 million people were killed by German Nazis who came in power and believed that Germans were the superior race. One million Jewish children were killed alone. A chain of over 42‚500 facilities controlled by Germans were used to confine and kill Jews. About 500‚000 people were participants in the preparation and execution
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Anne Frank 12th June 1942 ‘I hope I will be able to confide everything to you‚ as i have never been able to confide in anyone‚ and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.’ 14th June 1942 I’m going to go back to the day I got you…my birthday! To start I’m going to tell you a little bit about myself‚ I guess I’m just an ordinary girl‚ with an ordinary family. I’m 13 years old now; I was born on the 12 June 1929‚ and I guess I do have a great family‚ living in a great home. I could
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