What Are The Challenges In The Diary Of Anne Frank

During the early 30’s to mid 40’s many Jewish families were publicly persecuted under the Nazi Regime. ‘The play of the Diary of Anne Frank’ written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, explores the hardships and adversities of the protagonist, Anne Frank and the political challenges during WWII. Although some of Anne’s hardships are similar to the Jewish population’s, the wider political challenges are more important than Anne’s individual challenges. European Jews, and Anne and the Annex members experienced extreme starvation and isolation from the community during the holocaust, as well as needing extreme survival tactics to escape the Nazi’s.

On July 6th 1942 the Frank and Van Daan family moved into the secret Annex where they would spend the next two years and thirty days until discovered on August 4th 1944. During this time the families used desperate survival techniques to remain hidden from the police. We first understand the lengths
We must burn everything in the stove at night. This is the way we must live until it is over, if we are to survive” (A1 S2) From this we learn the Franks and Van Daan’s will go to every measure to ensure their own safety. As the play comes close to an end the characters start to lose the positive survival attitude they had from the start, “Sometimes I wish the end would come… whatever it is.” (A2 S1) This remark from Margot helps us understand the effort their survival took. Although the Franks and Van Daan’s went through a great deal during their ‘diving’ years, the survival of the wider Jewish community. In comparison to the survival of the wider Jewish community, the Franks and Van Daan’s experience does not compare. Many Jewish families were persecuted and taken to concentration camps like