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
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wrote a diary about her time in hiding. Throughout it, it talks about what it was like to be a Jew in the war and to constantly be in fear while in hiding. It also talks about how she changed as a person while going through the two years of living there without going outside once. I picked up this book expecting it to describe her fear and how she hates the war and desperately wants it to end, but was pleasantly surprised when I found it to be quite different. At the beginning of her diary it talks
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Anne Frank and her diary have become an international wonder; people feel like they truly know the eight Annex members. I have the tragic luck being able to say I knew all of them so well. The van Pels parents always stood out to me when I visited the Annex. They were so ill-natured and could easily stop a crowd. In this case, Mr. Hermann van Pels was the vulgar personality I wanted to try to show more of. Hermann wasn’t brought up much in Anne's diary. Unless, of course, when he was fighting with
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went into hiding for two years, in fear of being sent away to a camp, or suffer a slow, painful death in a gas chamber during the Holocaust. Was she captured or kept hidden away? This is her first person experience of the Holocaust based on her diary “The diary of Anne Frank “. Anne Frank was a young, adventurous, and religious girl born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. She was mischievous and curious. But soon Germany became a dangerous place for Jews, and , Margot, Annes sister, received a
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HI18 - C July 1, 2013 _____________________________________________________________________________________ To many of us, history is simply a class you take to be able to learn and memorize certain dates, events and people that have tremendous significance to a country, nation or even community. If you view it this way, you are missing the whole point of history. There is more to the objectivity of history. The very essence of history is that it leaves a trace of emotion by these so called
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*What does freedom mean to you? Freedom can mean different things depending on the situation. Freedom is an important theme on Frederick Douglass's "Narrative Life" as well as my chosen books "Worst Case" by James Patterson and "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank. All these books illustrate the theme of freedom in different ways, but all follow a theme of personal freedom. Freedom is not easily achieved for any of the characters in these three books. * Michael Benette is the main character
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Extra Credit Today I attended the Life at the Edge: David Koker’s Concentration Camp Diary presented by Dr. Robert Jan Van Pelt at Miami Dade College Kendall Campus. I found the presentation to be very interesting. It was a different view of what took place during the holocaust from inside the concentration camps other than the story of Anne Frank. The diary was intended for his girlfriend to read at the time which he describes everything in such detail and passion. David was captured in March
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Freedom Writers Diary Review The movie “Freedom Writers” is a true story about a white teacher trying to make a difference in a room crammed with black, Latino and Asian high school freshmen. It is defiantly a challenge, especially for a first time teacher. Hillary Swank is the main actress and she plays Erin Gruwell, a 23-year-old teacher in 1994 assigned to teach freshman and softmore English at Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif. By the time Erin steps into her classroom, two years after
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The Diary of Anne Frank Would you family have the strength to sacrifice everything to stay together? The Frank family did. On July 5,1942 Margot Frank, a shy, sixteen year old was ordered to report to a work camp in Germany. To keep his family united Otto Frank decided to go into hiding in a secret annex located in Amsterdam, Holland with his wife Edith and his two daughters Margot and Anne. The Franks were later joined by the Van Daan Family, which included Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son
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BOOK REPORT Title : The Diary of a Young Girl Author: Anne Frank * Annelies "Anne" Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 when Nazi Germany passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws
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