The Diary of Anne Frank vs. the Hiding Place

In the late 1930’s and throughout the 1940’s Adolf Hitler an anti Jewish man came to power in Germany. During this Germany was in a great depression due to their loss of World War One. Hitler promised restoration and power and he was easily accepted. Once Adolf was in powered he began to invade countries around them like Poland and Holland. Hitler began to send Jews away to camps. He then began to rampage around the countries capturing the Jews and sending them to the camps where we later found out how they brutally killed the Jews. Before some of the Jews were captured they went into hiding. That’s where our two stories came from our first is The Hiding Place and the other is The Annex. Although these are not the only stories about Jews hiding from the Nazis these are some of the most extreme. The Hiding Place will be the first story I talk about. This story is important because it tells about how a house of Christians became a secret hiding place for over 10 underground Jews. What happened was an older Christian woman and her husband felt the pain of the Jews and then let them hide out in their house along with the woman’s sister and child. Then the Green Police came to their house and arrested them with only a large amount of rations cards as proof. Then once the police had taken them away the Jews escaped and made their way out of town where most of them escaped to freedom. Years later a fault in the Nazis system gave one of the women taken away the chance to live. In our second story The Annex it talks about how two families the Franks and the Van Daans that lived with Mr.Dussel in a tiny attic. What we know was written by the Franks daughter Anne in her diary. It tells of how she had a relationship with Peter Van Daan, and the trouble that occurred in that annex. They lived there for three years before they were captured helping them were two people Mr. Kraler and Meip who weren’t Jews and were never captured. There are many singularities