Because anti-Semitic laws forced Jews into separate schools, Anne and her older sister, Margot, attended the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. The Franks had moved …show more content…
It includes more of the struggles from a different person’s point of view, of the oppression that Jews faced, while being in the same family. It also speaks of his entire life and the six short months between the Gestapo's arrival at the other side of a moveable bookcase and the day the Russians liberated Auschwitz, where Otto was held prisoner. Otto was the one who stitched together the story of what we know is Anne Frank’s legacy. Otto who sought a publisher for them at a time when most people wished to forget all about the Holocaust; Otto who made sure that stage and film adaptations of the diary were true to her 'spirit'. He did this for peace of mind a little peace of mind. Some critics have accused the diary of sentimentalizing the Holocaust, which is true, and though it is hardly her fault, the book ends with Anne's fate delicately unspoken. Here, though, we go where those who interviewed Otto after the war so often feared to tread. We see him transported in a cattle car from Westerbork to Auschwitz. We watch him turn his head for a last look at his wife and children. We listen as he fights his desperate hunger by talking, not about food, but about