Informative Essay On Anne Frank

Bodies laid everywhere, covered in newspaper and stacked on top of one another. The smell was horrible, and buildings were crumbling. This is what it was like for the Jews and other holocaust victims in the warsaw ghetto, but the warsaw ghetto was not the only ghetto during the holocaust. In poland there was at least 1,000 ghettos for the Jews to live in. They had little food and awful living conditions, the Nazis were literally trying to starve them to death. “According to Hitler, Jews were maggots, parasites, vampires, spiders sucking blood, and vermin” (Stewart). Anne Frank was one of many Jewish children to be sent to concentration camps and ghettos, all so Hitler could form his perfect aryan race. Anne Frank hid in fear of the Nazis for 2 years of her life before being discovered. Although terrible things happened to her and millions of other Jews, we wouldn’t have the chance to learn about the life of Anne Frank, or know that discrimination against people that are different from us is very, very wrong.
Anne Frank was born on June 12th, 1929. She was a jewish girl with one sister named Margot.
Her and sister Margot were sent to Bergen - Belsen concentration camp after they were found hiding in the “annex.” “I can remember that as early as 1932, groups of storm troopers came marching by, singing, “When Jewish blood splatters from the knife,” -Otto Frank (“Anne Frank”). All the people that were hiding in the annex were sent to Camp Westerbrook. The Franks went later to the Auschwitz killing center. Edith became very ill and died shortly after Margot and Anne were sent to Bergen - Belsen concentration camp. Otto Frank never saw his daughter’s again. “At Bergen - Belsen food was scarce, sanitation was awful and disease ran rampant,” (“Anne Frank”). The most common disease was typhus. Typhus was a skin disease caused by severe insanitation, and it is carried by fleas. The disease took both Anne and Margot’s