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
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When reading this play about Anne Frank I have learned many new details about her. The play gave a great amount of detail on how she felt and what she thought about. This play is a very sad play‚ but that also has humor in it to make it a little less tragic. Anne Franks quote is “In spite of everything‚ I still believe people are really good at heart.” In the play‚ it reads “I’ll come in here with you and mother‚ and Mr. Dussel can have my bed.” Anne has been being very kind when she said this
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indifferent‚ it dehumanizes them and puts them at lower standard than everyone else. Unity is broken when individuals are no longer thought of as equals and causes great distress in a country. Both Elie Wiesel and Niemoller take a stand against indifference to inspire others to do the same. In 1986‚ Elie Wiesel got on stage to accept his Nobel Peace Prize after writing about his experience in Auschwitz during the terrible genocide. Throughout his acceptance speech‚ he defines indifference as silence
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Horrifying. Life-changing. These words describe Elie’s pain throughout the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. A young Jewish boy who suffered through concentration camps during the Holocaust. This caused Elie and his father’s relationship to change. Their relationship changed from not so close‚ to close‚ then to Elie being relieved when his father passes away. Before the Holocaust Elie and his father weren’t close. Elie thought of his father as a cultured man‚ rather unsentimental. “He rarely displayed his
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Annelies Marie Frank is one of the superlatively well known Jewish Holocaust victims by virtue of the book that was published called‚ “The Diary of a Young Girl.” This book is a diary that she was writing in during the time when she was hiding from the Nazis with her family and the Van Daan family from 1942 to 1944. There has been a play based off the book called “The Diary of Anne Frank” and at the edge‚ Anne states‚ “In spite of everything‚ I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
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Throughout Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust narrative‚ Night‚ the struggle in remaining faithful is a predominant conflict the Jews face. The protagonist‚ Elie Wiesel‚ is depicted as a dynamic character who undergoes a vast transformation regarding his faith. As Elie encounters many hardships and horrors during the reign of Hitler‚ his faith in God is continuously tested to the point where he begins to alter his beliefs. Wiesel indicates that exposure to a cruel‚ inhospitable world prompts the deterioration
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thing to read about a young women who was trying so hard to obtain and keep her independence in a period of history when many people were losing their basic freedom. In Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl‚ we are given a firsthand account of what is was like to be a Jewish resident of Holland during World War II. The author‚ Anne Frank‚ takes us through her family’s experience of hiding from the Gestapo in the secret annex of an office building. In this unlikely setting‚ where several people’s basic
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Silent Night While reading “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ I came across a lot of key ideas and themes that ran consistently through out the book. Three major ideas that I felt were important were Elie’s trial to keep faith in his God‚ the use of silence and night and finally‚ having to keep your mind at ease amongst all the inhumanity. Although these ideas are different‚ they play off of one another. Elie’s biggest struggle is to maintain his belief and fate in God’s hands. Elie’s battle with his
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what if one(gratitude or empathy) is stronger than the other? Anne Frank‚ the creator of ‘The Diary of A Young Girl’ hid in the Secret Annex during the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940. The experience that Anne’s faces are those that we try not to imagine. When Anne went into hiding‚ you could believe that all she desired to do was to go back to the Prinsengracht(her home) in Amsterdam. When the war seemed close to ending‚ Anne and her sister Margot lost their lives. At this moment‚ a strong
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citizen who stood out the most and he was a young boy named Eliezer Wiesel. He was sent to several concentration camps along with his family‚ but he was soon separated from his mother and younger sister‚ Tzipora. As the transitions from concentration camp to
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