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Anne Frank

“ I see the world being slowly formed into a wilderness; i hear the approaching thunder that one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when i look up at the sky i somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that the peace and tranquillity will return once more.” (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/anne_frank_752397)

Anne Frank, Born June 12, 1929. A world famous German- born diarist and world war 2 holocaust victm

What was Anne Frank's life like during the holocaust, ( according to pg. 64 in the Anne Frank book by Susanna Davidson) Anne Frank always wrote in her diary ever since she got it on her 13th birthday. In that diary we get to see the …show more content…

That is when Anne Frank and her family went into hiding, They went behind Otto Frank, Her father’s business in an attic located in Amsterdam. Anne referred to the apartment as annex, Just for precaution they made a false trail of where they were “hiding” making it look like they fled to switzerland. While hiding they met up with Otto’s business associate Hermann van Pels along with his wife and their son Peter. Joining them was another small group of Otto Frank’s employees along with his Austrian-born secretary, Miep Gies, Miep risked his own life to go smuggle food and supplies for everyone and sneak it back into the annex. Anne wrote that they were scared to go outside so in the daytime they kept quiet and did nothing so the …show more content…

Someone who remains unknown told the german soldiers where they were. They were loaded onto a bus and taken to concentration camp. As soon as they arrived the men and women were separated and that was the last time Otto Frank saw his wife and daughters. Anne and Margot Frank were due to immediate death in the Auschwitz gas chambers. But instead were sent to Bergen-Belsen a concentration camp in northern Germany where they have to work and low food and water supply. The women cut up batteries for there job ( According to the book Memories of Anne Frank pg.56) "We had to chop open the batteries with a hammer and a chisel and then throw the tar in one basket and the carbon bars, which we had to remove, into another basket. They had to take off the metal caps with a screwdriver, and they went into a third basket. In addition to getting terribly dirty from the work, They all began to cough because it gave off a certain kind of dust. The agreeable part of working on the batteries was that they could talk with each other. Anne’s Diary says on Page 4 “ You’re too scared to do anything because it may be forbidden our freedom was strictly limited, yet things were still bearable.” The Nazi’s soon invaded leaving only some jews left in the camps. During the two years Anne Frank spent hiding from the Nazis with her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, she wrote extensive daily

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