Anne Frank Essay
Anne Frank
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” -Anne Frank
In March 1945 about 50,000 people died at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, including Anne Frank and her sister Margot. Bergen-Belsen was located near Hanover in northwest Germany. The holocaust was a very mortifying time for many. About 20,000 camps held over 11 million Jews along with anyone else who didn’t meet Hitler's expectations. Many of these people were starved and brutally murdered by Nazis. Jews were not the only ones targeted, there were also homosexuals, disabled people and Roma Gypsies between the years 1933-1945. Throughout all of this chaos, there was one little girl named Anne who’s voice was …show more content…
silenced; but her story is told today. Anne Frank was a young victim of the Holocaust who experienced hiding in annex, the horrors of a concentration camp, and yet wrote about her experiences to let others know about the terrible events known as the Holocaust.
Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany on June 12, 1929.
Otto Frank (her father) moved them to Amsterdam in 1934, following a Nazi degree. The Jewish and Non Jewish kids had to start attending separate schools when Hitler came to power in 1933. Around 1941 Jews started being put into concentration camps. The Franks went into hiding in early July, 1942 after Margot received a letter ordering her to report to a camp in Germany. The Franks had to figure out a way to bring their stuff with them to the annex, so they layered on their clothing and stuffed as many belongings as they could into a small satchel. Jews were also required to wear the yellow star of david. The Franks were in hiding for 2 years along with another family the Van Pelz and their 15 year old son Peter, also a dentist named Albert Dussel (“Anne Frank”). Edith Frank and Otto decided to give Anne a journal to write in for the long boring days that they were in hiding, this is when “The Diary of Anne Frank” all began. Miep Gies, (Otto’s assistant) and her husband decided to help the Franks out. She had a big part in how they received food, and all the essentials that they required to live. All was well besides them not being able to move around or go to the bathroom during the day due to the workers below the annex. Then tragedy struck, and an anonymous person gave away the secret annex that hid all of the Franks and everyone else hiding in the
annex.
After being discovered, the Franks, Van pelz, and Dussel were sent to Westerbork, a holding camp in the northern Netherlands. From there they were all transported by freight train to Auschwitz. On the long journey to the concentration camps Anne and Margot were spared immediate death at Auschwitz gas chambers. They were then sent to the camp Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in northern Germany. In March, 1945 both of the Frank sisters died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen, Anne was only 15 years old (“Who is Anne”). Their bodies were then throw into a mass grave. Their mother Edith Frank died of starvation at Auschwitz in January, 1945. The Van Pelz all got split up and died their separate ways either in a gas chamber or from an illness. Otto Frank was the only member of the group to survive after Soviet troops liberated him from Auschwitz camp on January 27, 1945.
Through this whole journey Anne wrote about her terrible experiences, everything she had thought or felt about her loneliness and frustration. After Otto got out of Auschwitz he returned to Amsterdam in search of his family. After realizing he was the only one who made it out he didn’t know what to do. This was until Miep Gies found him. She gave him Anne’s journal she had kept which consisted of 5 notebooks and 300 loose papers. Miep had retrieved these by sneaking back into the annex shortly after they had arrested the Franks and hid Anne's writings in her desk (‘Anne frank”). Otto knew that Anne wanted to become an author and hoped that one day her wartime writings would become published. After he had retrieved Anne's writings he compiled them into a manuscript that was published in the Netherlands in 1947. U.S publishers at first rejected the story because they thought it was to dull and depressing. It eventually was published in 1952 as “The Diary of a Young Girl”. It has sold 10’s of millions of copies around the world ever since.
As a young victim of the holocaust Anne Frank went through a lot with everything that unfortunately happened to her. She lived in an annex for 2 years, was captured and sent to a concentration camp, and yet wrote about all of the things she experienced through her time when Hitler came to power. In conclusion to all of this the holocaust was very traumatic time for Anne Frank and others. Even though this little girl's voice was silenced through it all, everyone still knew her story. Anne's experiences and writings are admired all over the world still to this day.
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” -Anne Frank
In March 1945 about 50,000 people died at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, including Anne Frank and her sister Margot. Bergen-Belsen was located near Hanover in northwest Germany. The holocaust was a very mortifying time for many. About 20,000 camps held over 11 million Jews along with anyone else who didn’t meet Hitler's expectations. Many of these people were starved and brutally murdered by Nazis. Jews were not the only ones targeted, there were also homosexuals, disabled people and Roma Gypsies between the years 1933-1945. Throughout all of this chaos, there was one little girl named Anne who’s voice was …show more content…
silenced; but her story is told today. Anne Frank was a young victim of the Holocaust who experienced hiding in annex, the horrors of a concentration camp, and yet wrote about her experiences to let others know about the terrible events known as the Holocaust.
Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany on June 12, 1929.
Otto Frank (her father) moved them to Amsterdam in 1934, following a Nazi degree. The Jewish and Non Jewish kids had to start attending separate schools when Hitler came to power in 1933. Around 1941 Jews started being put into concentration camps. The Franks went into hiding in early July, 1942 after Margot received a letter ordering her to report to a camp in Germany. The Franks had to figure out a way to bring their stuff with them to the annex, so they layered on their clothing and stuffed as many belongings as they could into a small satchel. Jews were also required to wear the yellow star of david. The Franks were in hiding for 2 years along with another family the Van Pelz and their 15 year old son Peter, also a dentist named Albert Dussel (“Anne Frank”). Edith Frank and Otto decided to give Anne a journal to write in for the long boring days that they were in hiding, this is when “The Diary of Anne Frank” all began. Miep Gies, (Otto’s assistant) and her husband decided to help the Franks out. She had a big part in how they received food, and all the essentials that they required to live. All was well besides them not being able to move around or go to the bathroom during the day due to the workers below the annex. Then tragedy struck, and an anonymous person gave away the secret annex that hid all of the Franks and everyone else hiding in the
annex.
After being discovered, the Franks, Van pelz, and Dussel were sent to Westerbork, a holding camp in the northern Netherlands. From there they were all transported by freight train to Auschwitz. On the long journey to the concentration camps Anne and Margot were spared immediate death at Auschwitz gas chambers. They were then sent to the camp Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in northern Germany. In March, 1945 both of the Frank sisters died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen, Anne was only 15 years old (“Who is Anne”). Their bodies were then throw into a mass grave. Their mother Edith Frank died of starvation at Auschwitz in January, 1945. The Van Pelz all got split up and died their separate ways either in a gas chamber or from an illness. Otto Frank was the only member of the group to survive after Soviet troops liberated him from Auschwitz camp on January 27, 1945.
Through this whole journey Anne wrote about her terrible experiences, everything she had thought or felt about her loneliness and frustration. After Otto got out of Auschwitz he returned to Amsterdam in search of his family. After realizing he was the only one who made it out he didn’t know what to do. This was until Miep Gies found him. She gave him Anne’s journal she had kept which consisted of 5 notebooks and 300 loose papers. Miep had retrieved these by sneaking back into the annex shortly after they had arrested the Franks and hid Anne's writings in her desk (‘Anne frank”). Otto knew that Anne wanted to become an author and hoped that one day her wartime writings would become published. After he had retrieved Anne's writings he compiled them into a manuscript that was published in the Netherlands in 1947. U.S publishers at first rejected the story because they thought it was to dull and depressing. It eventually was published in 1952 as “The Diary of a Young Girl”. It has sold 10’s of millions of copies around the world ever since.
As a young victim of the holocaust Anne Frank went through a lot with everything that unfortunately happened to her. She lived in an annex for 2 years, was captured and sent to a concentration camp, and yet wrote about all of the things she experienced through her time when Hitler came to power. In conclusion to all of this the holocaust was very traumatic time for Anne Frank and others. Even though this little girl's voice was silenced through it all, everyone still knew her story. Anne's experiences and writings are admired all over the world still to this day.