Ana Frank

“The Diary of Anne Frank”

Anne Frank Biography:

Annelies Marie Frank Hollander is famous for the diary that she kept from June 12th, 1942 until August 04th, 1944.

She was born on June 12th, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany, and was the second daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Hollander. Her sister Margot was three years older. She enjoyed four happy years growing up in Frankfurt until the Nazi's came to power.

Of German Jewish descent, she and her family moved to Holland in 1933, where her father set up a business. By 1934, Edith and the two girls were living in Amsterdam, where they both attended school. From a young age, Anne showed an aptitude for reading and writing, while her outspoken and energetic personality shone through. When Holland was occupied by the Nazis in 1940, their heritage put the family under threat.

The family was subjected to the same rules as German Jews, namely Jewish children could only attend Jewish schools, and they faced curfews, were not allowed to own a business and were forced to wear a yellow star. Otto transferred his shares in his company to a friend and resigned as director leaving the family with enough income to survive.

On her 13th birthday, Otto gave Anne an autograph book bound with white and red checked cloth and closed with a small lock. She proceeded to use this as her diary, with the first entries detailing how her family were segregated and discriminated against. On July 1942, her sister Margot received a call up notice from the Central Office of Jewish Emigration ordering her to report for relocation to a work camp. This made the family moved into hiding earlier than planned.

On July 6th, 1942, Anne, her sister Margot and her parents went into hiding, along with other family. Their hiding place, the annex, was in a specially prepared space above the offices of their business.

While in hiding, they were supported by a group of friends who brought them food as well as anything else they needed.

Anne started each diary entry 'Dear Kitty' and what followed was an incredibly candid and eloquent account of her life in confinement. It expresses her fear, boredom and confusion at the situation she found herself in.

As well as giving the reader an insight into of what it was like to live under such extreme circumstances, it also shows Anne struggling with the universal problem of growing up.

Her diary ends in 1944 when the annex was raided by the Nazi authorities. Anne and Margot were first sent to Auschwitz and then to Bergen-Belsen where they died of typhoid in 1945.

The Plot

“The Diary of Anne Frank”

At the beginning of the Diary of Anne Frank, talks about his normal life, when she was in school, she was always with her friends and talked about her math teacher Mr. Kepler who always spent scolding her because she was very talkative and punished her by putting writing monographs such as talkative.

In 1940, Holland decided against Jews brand new obligations as bring the star, give their bike. It was prohibited for Jews to board a tram, and drive a car. They could only shop fifteen to seventeen hours and Jewish businesses. They were also forbidden to leave after eight in the evening, not even their gardens, or even stay at home with their friends and more. It was required to Jews go to Jewish schools.

Anne said "life was fraught with anxiety," and her other family began to suffer the consequences of Hitler enacted laws against the Jews. The paternal and maternal grandparents were wealthy, money that was lost in the World War I. In 1938 two maternal uncles fled to United States and her grandmother met with them to live. She died in 1942, memorable loss to Anne, she mentions in her diary, "no one will ever know this as I have it in my thoughts and how much I still want to."

So only time Anne only had to worry about her studies and friends, but suddenly everything changes and gave a gyre of 360 ° degree, then started World War II and Holland was invaded by the Germans.

One day her father told her about a hiding place that they were already moving some furniture when they had to leave. Since that time Anne felt distressed. Her father received a letter from the SS to be present but in reality the letter was not to him but to his daughter Margot, what they were afraid and had to leave.

On July 9th, 1942 the Frank family had to leave its home for shelter. They decided to move to Holland to hiding in the backyard of an office in the center of Amsterdam, in a place called "annex". It was not a very comfortable place but they must adapt and be their new home. They did not live alone for days after the Van Daan family arrived. The first that came to the Annex was the son of family Van Daan named Peter that Anne considered him a shy guy and tedious. After the period of newcomers, she begins to write in her diary about how they will adapt to their new home.

At first, she did not have a good friendship with her peers, even she was not have a good friendship with Mrs. Van Daan because she believed her an immature and poorly cover girl and takes every opportunity to talk about how to behave but her father always comes defense.

She told her father all because she had more confidence to him; she told him her problems, because she felt more comfortable with Pim with her mother that she's judged by their actions. She in her diary was written as it was every day being in the Annex, even sometimes she wept quietly in her room when she could because she did not like to weep, also that they were starving and ate pure vegetables and rotten potatoes because there weren’t almost vegetables.

The eighth member who came to the Annex for refuge was Mr. Dussel who was a very grumpy dentist. Anne had to share a room with him but Anne did not like very well. Also the arrivals of this new tenant was a danger and deliver even more food.

Have a bad humor was normal in the Annex, because you could not go to the toilet, or walk, or write in the diary and among other things to be discovered not make the slightest noise. But Anne spent her time writing, studying Greek and Roman mythology, making family trees and her hobby was the portraits of movie stars, she always thought something des bored because she didn’t have a good friendship with peers in the Annex.

During the time in the annex the Frank and Van Daan family always spent discussing.

After a year in the Annex, Anne begins to write in her diary how she fell in love of Peter Van Daan’s son. She found the affection in Peter and Peter also likes to talk with Anne because he is also very lonely. He sees her as just a friend, but Anne won his confidence, love and affection, both end up falling in love with each other. She

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