In January 1933, the Nazis came into power of Germany and murdered Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, and Jews (“Holocaust History”).Almost everyone in Germany was murdered, even the ones who were part of the Nazis but rebelled against Hitler. So how were Anne Frank and her family able to make it? Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father, asked some of his staff members to hide his family from the Nazis (“Miep Gies”).One of the helpers were a good friend and very loyal to their concerns, her name was Miep Gies.…
The Franks fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1933 to avoid persecution. The way the Jews were being treated in the Netherlands was becoming very similar to the Jews harsh treatment when in Germany. This meant that darkness was near, deportation and death was coming soon. With the knowledge of knowing what was next the Franks began to organize a plan to go into hiding shortly before Anne’s 13th birthday. One day in July of 1942 Margot received a letter informing her that she was going to have to prepare to go to a workers camp. This changed the Franks plans immediately and caused them to go into hiding the very next few days. Their hiding place in which Anne called the secret Annex in her diary was located in the upper-back portion of Otto Frank’s business at 263 Prinsengracht. About a weeks time after the Franks got situated into their new hiding area, they were soon joined by another family named the van Pels also known as the van Daans in Anne’s published diary. “Last to arrive of the eight people that were to hide in the Secret Annex was the dentist Friedrich “Fritz” Pfeffer also known as (Albert Dussel in the diary)on November 16, 1942.” ()Anne’s Diary describes and talks about the differences between the seven other people and their difficulties within their living situation. Throughout the pages the ink in the diary words of fears, worries, questions, hopes and a young lady attempting to find herself regardless of what she had to face…
That when their father decided to hide his family from the Nazis. Not wanting his family to get deported or worse. Eight people including them, was hiding in an attic of a warehouse building. Mr. Van Daan and his wife and their son Peter and later an elderly Jewish Dentist named Dussel.( “Anne…
They had spent two years of their life in the Secret Annex for all to come to end because they were found just weeks before the end of World War Two. Mr.Frank was the only one of the eight hiding to survive the camps. He later returned to the Annex and found Anne’s famous diary. Anne, Margot, and Mrs.Van Daan died in Bergen-Belsen. Furthermore, Mrs.Frank, Mr.Van Daan died in the dreaded extermination camp of Auschwitz. Additionally, Peter Van Daan deceased at Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria. Finally, Mr.Dussel died of Enterocolitis in Neuengamme, Germany. For those two years communication with outsiders was very limited. Therefore, they had found other ways to pass the abundant amount of hours during the two years of their hiding. Think if you were one of the eight people in the…
Throughout the story Anne Frank learned at a young age how hard life could be and the hope for better things to come.…
The time during the Holocaust brought the Frank family much difficulties. They had to be fearful about everything.They were always scared of being caught by the Gestapo. They had to be careful about what they were doing and how loud they were talking. They were always scared of what would happen if someone knew where they were living. While they were living in the Annex they couldn’t do much as I had mentioned. They didn’t have normal dinners or normal clothes like other normal families had. In the secret annex there was a tight schedule. The Annex was located in an empty section of the builing that Mr. Frank worked in.…
All the “Secret Annex” residents were arrested and sent to Westerbork Concentration Camp on August 8th, 1944. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) One month later, in September, they were the last transport to leave Westerbork and go to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. (eLibrary) Then in October, Anne and Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in northwest Germany. (eLibrary) They both died of typhus in March 1945. (Rol and Verhoeven, 101) British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15th, 1945. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Otto Frank was the only “Secret Annex” resident to survive the holocaust. (eLibrary) After that, in 1947, he read Anne’s diary and published it and named it “The Secret Annex.”…
After learning from a Dutch Free Radio broadcast that her diary could hold some historical importance in the future, she started to rewrite the whole diary. But in August 4, 1944, a Nazi policeman received a tip on where Anne and her family was hiding and the policeman raided the annex. Everyone was sent to Westerbork and one month later,were then sent to Auschwitz, Poland where Edith had died of starvation. Anne and Margot was then sent from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen where Anne and Margot both died only one month before the camp was liberated by the Allied…
The Frank family, along with the four other individuals, was arrested by the Gestapo in August of 1944. After the arrest of the Frank family and the other hiders Miep Gies tried to bribe SS officers to release the prisoners to no avail. Miep Gies, again risked her own freedom by returning to the hiding place; there she found Anne’s diary. Miep gathered the torn and ripped pages and with the feeling that young girl’s secrets should remain secret, Miep put the diary away. When Otto Frank, the only surviving member of his family returned to Amsterdam, Miep Gies gave Anne’s diary to her him.…
Anne, Margot, and their family went into hiding the next day. (“Frank, Anne”-Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia). They were soon joined by Jewish dentist, Fritz Pfeffer, one of Otto’s Jewish co-workers, Hermann van Pels, his wife, and their son, Peter, who was close in age with Anne. They hid in a secret annex (a room adjoined to or added into a main building) that Anne’s father had prepared for them. The opening of the annex was hidden only by a hinged bookcase. Anne was only twelve at the time. The families tried to continue with life as normal as they possibly could. The children, Anne, Margot, and Peter, still continued to study and do homework (“Frank, Anne”- Compton’s by…
Anne Frank, an inspiring girl with lots of dreams! Anne was one of the millions of Jewish people that perished because of the Holocaust. She was born on June, 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. When World War II began the Jewish race lost a lot of privileges and opportunities. Like being able to use public transit, to then being able to be outside at all. The German empire began to relocate Jewish people to concentration camps, which left them in horrible living conditions until they perished. In 1942 Anne and the rest of the Frank family went into hiding. They hid in a place that is known as the "Secret Annex" until 1944 when the Nazi's located their hiding place and arrested them. Sending them all of to concentration camps where the whole family besides Otto…
"On August 1944, everyone in the secret annex is arrested. Someone may have betrayed them. They are deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then on to Auschwitz". Otto Frank is the only person from the secret annex to survive the camps. "… The others all die". (Stitching Anne Frank) Anne is arrested with all the others in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Anne ends up in the same birack's as her mother and sister. After that Anne and Margot are taken to Bergen-Belson. Anne died there in February 1945 at the age of 15 due to a disease called typhus.…
How did hiding for two years change Anne Frank? Anne Frank went into hiding from the Nazis at the age of 13. During her two years of isolation, Anne desperately tried to discover who she was as a person while disagreeing with the people she lived with. While hiding for two years, Anne Frank struggled with the normal parts of becoming a teenager; who she was, her place in life as she tried to find personal space.…
Anne Frank once stated, “I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world feel young and know that I’m free, and yet I can’t let it show. Just imagine what would happen if all eight of were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces, where would that get us?” Life is too short and oftentimes, like the Franks, we may want to help others; however, in the end, helping others may not help us. The Franks were dutiful in helping the Van Daans and Dussel. However, their help did not come without a price.…
First off, both of these people entered hiding because of the Nazi persecution. They hid in cramped and awkward spaces that were not extremely comfortable to reside in. They were both fortunate enough to hide in a sheltered location with food brought to them. Both of them also were opportune enough to hide from the Nazis with their family members. All of their family members were there to support each other when it was needed. In addition, they hid along with other families who were also being persecuted by the Nazis. Both Anne and Krystyna succeeded in remaining hidden from the Nazis for over a…