...foundation of chaos, suffering and death.” (Anne Frank) This quote means that you should always have an open mind and should never judge before you know the facts. There are good people and bad people out there. You are the one who needs to make the choice. The first session I went to was called Writing Resistance: The Diary of Anne Frank and the Legacy of Her Work. Anne Frank was a girl who wants everyone to be peaceful like her. Unfortunately you always have the people that find a way to ruin everyone’s lives. For Anne Frank that guy was Adolf Hitler, an anti Semitic rebel. The second session I attended was Our Liberty id Bound Together. The “LRA” as known as the Lord’s Resistance Army which is a large armed movement of resisters against the Acholi people in central Uganda. This group is led by Joseph Kony. Kony considers himself a spirit medium from god. After going to these sessions it made me think about how good people have it that live in the United States compared to these other countries at war right now. Anne Frank was born on June 12th 1929. She was living in Frankfort Germany in a small Jewish community. Adolf Hitler was raised to power in the beginning of the 1930’s. He formed an organization called the Nazis’. The Natzi organization was aimed toward taking out the Jewish genocide. This was happening because Hitler persuaded the Nazis’ that they were purifying Germany. The disabled and homosexuals would also be killed off. The Frank family moved to Amsterdam the summer...
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...What would it be like to be kept hidden and protected from a war zone, yet you still know what’s going on outside? Could life on the outside of a safety zone affect how life is on the inside? Anne Frank and the people from the Secret Annex were hidden from the outside world, but they still knew what was happening, and knowing what was going on caused them to change. The Historical Events from the Holocaust shaped the character’s feelings and caused people to do unnormal things in the play of Anne Frank. Character’s Feelings were changed by the historical events that happened during the holocaust. Anne Frank’s feelings of safety were changed by her fear of the Nazis. {Pg. 130- Mr. Dussel brought this information} “You don’t realize...
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...Anne Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, to Otto and Edith Frank. Anne was also welcomed by her older sister Margot, who was 3 ½ years old at the time of Anne’s birth. The family lived in Frankfurt, Germany, which was a religiously diverse town. The Frank family lived a comfortable life in Frankfurt, being an upper-middle-class family. However, life for Jewish families got harder as Adolf Hitler gained power in Germany. With anti-semitism gaining popularity, and Adolf Hitler’s rise in power, Otto knew he had to do something. On January 20, 1933, Otto Frank realized that his family could no longer live a safe life in Germany, so they decided to move to Amsterdam. He later stated his thoughts on moving, “Though this did hurt me deeply, I realized that Germany was not the world, and I left my country forever." Otto moved to Amsterdam first, so he could establish a home for his family before they made their journey over to a new country. Otto found a job as a managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, making products used in jam. After Otto established a living in Amsterdam, Edith and Margot joined him. However, since Anne was so young, she...
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...1929 a legend is born. Anne Frank is a sassy, boastful, smart, and above all insightful person. In the beginning of Anne’s diary, she displayed the traits that most people would not think of her. In the beginning of her diary, Anne seems to be totally full of herself not recognizing how arrogant and boastful, she was being, but all changes when Anne and her family are forced into hiding and all her luxuries are stripped from her. Throughout the course of her diary she writes about her trials and tribulations, she writes about the guilt she felt, she writes about how saddened she was, but she also writes about her goals and how she was going to rise up from being belittled by the Nazi power. By the end of her diary, Anne makes a major...
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...personal inside of this when the diary of a 13-year-old Jewish girl was published to the world. This young girl was Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who was able to see the goodness in the world when catastrophe was just beyond her walls. Anne’s Birth and Childhood Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her parents Otto Frank, a post WW1 veteran and successful business man, and Edith...
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...who have holidays. Some of which include Veteran’s Day, Christopher Columbus Day, and President’s Day. Although all of these holidays are important, there is one person who deserves their own holiday just as much. That person is Anne Frank. She is an extremely inspiring and influential individual who has moved millions of people all around the world. Anne was not only in hiding for two years but she believed people were still good and because of that, is an inspiration to people all over the world. As you will see, she was such an important and inspiring girl to so many people world wide, she needs a holiday to celebrate her hope and optimism. The first reason she deserves a holiday is because of her extreme situation during the holocaust. Anne...
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...Anne Frank, a fifteen year old girl who showed the world how the time of Adolf Hitler was in Germany, who spoke out verbally for many about her life during World War II. She had not survived the war but she and her diary have opened eyes around the world. Frank was born on June 12, 1929 to Otto Frank and Edith Frank and died on March 1, 1945; while growing up, Anne and her family moved from Frankfurt, Germany to Amsterdam, Germany because of economic despair causing Adolf Hitler to take control over the government in result of him taking over everybody except Nazis, which were Jews, which was also Frank’s family because they were Jews; when Frank had finally turned thirteen, she had received a diary book from her parents, since the day Anne...
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...Furthermore, her writing is effective in positively affecting people to be able to handle the trials in their life. This young girl was Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank. Anne Frank endured hiding out through the holocaust while remaining positive, patient, courageous and full of spirit. Anne Frank was an average teenage girl whose thoughts and actions proved her to be heroic and inspirational. She was a German Jewish girl born in 1929 who suffered through the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, there was a Jewish genocide where approximately 6 million Jews died at the hands of Nazi Germany. These Jews were not only killed, but abused and tortured as well. Nazi’s were taking Jewish people from their homes and sending them to concentration camps full of horrors. To prevent going through this, Anne and her family went into hiding in...
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...In this diary, she goes on to explain what it was like hiding day after day, after day. The struggles they went through, what they would do in their free time, to her first kiss, and just the everyday life of living to hide away in a room they called “The Secret Annex.” Her diary is called, “Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl.” Anne Frank was just a normal fifteen-year-old Jewish girl when the Nazi invaded Germany and her and her family and friends were forced into hiding. She was in hiding for two years before being found in 1944 and lived with eight other people (The). The eight people that lived there were Otto, Edith, Margot, Anne Frank, Hermann, Auguste, Peter Van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer (The). Out of all eight of them her father, Otto, was the only survivor (History). It is sad how something like this can tear a family...
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...Anne Frank is one of the most important people in our world’s history because of her life before she went to concentration camps, her time she spent imprisoned at the camps, and her diary and legacy. Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany to her parents Otto and Edith Frank (Source #3). When World War II broke out, she and her family moved to the Netherlands to escape the it (Source #2). In school, she was a good student who loved to read and had a dream of becoming a writer one day (Source #2). One day Anne' sister, Margot, received a deportation notice. Otto Frank was not letting his daughter go, so the Franks immediately went into hiding. They’re hiding place was a secret room in the attic of Otto Frank’s business building, the door was a moving bookshelf. They called it “The Secret Annex” (Source #3). About a week after the Franks went into hiding, the Van Pels joined them. They were a family of three, Hermann, Auguste, and Peter (Source #2 & 4). Soon after the Van Pels moved into The Secret Annex, Fritz Pfeffer also joined them. Pfeffer and Anne shared a room and Margot joined her parents in their room (Source #2 & 4). While the Franks were hidden in The Secret Annex, they...
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...worth it? Why take away adults lives and children’s like Anne Frank? Anne Frank was just an ordinary girl during the holocaust, but with her diary and the information that was given away, and how well written the diary was she became famous in our century. How Anne frank describes everything as she did and how she told the story she made the diary so explainable. Could such a thing happen again, the Holocaust could happen again? Our decision defines us from making the choices that could help...
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...Alaina Anne Frank’s good but sad life Anne says “I Want To Go on living even after my death.” Do you think her wish has come true? Explain. Some people thought that Anne would not live even after her death but she did. Anne's diary was published but not everyone knows about it yet and they don't even know about her yet either. Otto frank anne's father lived through the war and when they were arrested,so he went back to work and found Anne's diary and published it. Anne put all of her feelings and the bad things that were happening in her diary. The war was happening and Anne thought she was going to die. I feel that Anne is a hero and a very strong person. Anne's father Otto frank published her diary because...
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...that reflected the play in the Diary of Anne Frank was that the world war had affected the lives of others because of the power of hitler . The Holocaust was the systematic, regulatory, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially “ and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German community. The historical events that reflected in the play the diary of Anne frank are that Anne Frank's life has impacted the lives of others because her family background, Anne's time in hiding, and what she expressed in her famous diary all have taken place in the Holocaust. Anne Frank was a German-Jewish diarist. She was known for the diary she wrote while hiding from anti-Jewish persecution in Amsterdam during World War II. Her diary describes with...
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..."I still believe, in spite of everything, people are truly good at heart." This was the last line that Anne Frank ever wrote in her diary. The Diary of Anne Frank not only showed a girl with extraordinary courage, but exhibits a message of hope through a difficult and terrifying time. She continuously expresses her ideas and her dreams throughout her writing. The diary shines a light on how Anne continues to view the finest version of everyone. Despite this challenging time in her life, she shows a fierce determination to remain as cheerful, hopeful, and optimistic about life. Anne writes extensively in her diary about her hopefulness and optimism surrounding her despite the plague of Nazis. "I want to write," she exclaims, "but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart." Anne constantly is searching for a shred of light in the darkness of her hidden life. She looks into herself and her surroundings, searching for the bright aspects of others and of human nature, as explained within the quote, "I've found that there is always some beauty left in nature, sunshine, in yourself; these can all help you." Anne illustrates this idea: "I can shake off everything when I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." She holds onto her hope...
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...Merveille Priscila THE LIFE AND TIME OF ANNE FRANK. Thesis: this research will explore the life of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who managed to find hope and goodness in the midst of one of the saddest moments in the history. The holocaust was a terrible event in the history of the world. Millions of stories of sadness came from World War II, however, brings a message of goodness, the story that came from the pages of a diary belonging to a young Jewish girl, Anne Frank. The diary of Anne Frank has been read by millions of people around the world, since the end of World War II. Most Americans read the play that was made from Anne’s diary while they are in school. Aside from her diary and the play that was written, one might wonder who was Anne Frank? This research paper will explore the life of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who managed to find hope and goodness in the midst of the saddest moments in history. Anne’s Birth and Childhood. Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfort, Germany on June 12, 1929. Her parents were Otto and Edith Frank and she had an older sister named Margot Frank. The Frank family was Jewish. For many years, Jewish people lived in Germany without any problems, but when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party were elected in 1933. Life became difficult for German Jews. Because of the trouble with the Nazis, Otto Frank moved to Amsterdam in 1933 to set up a new company with some friends there. Anne lived with her grandparents for a while...
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