Anne Frank is one of the most widely known victims of the Nazi Holocaust because of her diary that she kept during her time in the Secret Annex. The diary showed that Anne was very mature, creative, and had a sense of depth of emotion far beyond her age level. To pass the time, she wrote long entries in her diary, some filled with her despair - February 3, 1944, she wrote, “I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.” and others with hope - July 15, 1944, “It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed inot a wilderness; I hear the approaching …show more content…
They were a typical upper middle-class Jewish family, but when Hitler was named chancellor of Germany on January 20, 1933, Otto decided that their famly needed to move. So in the fall of 1933 all but Anne moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Anne arrived later in February 1934. In Amsterdam, Anne and Margot - her sister - attended Amsterdam’s Sixth Montessori School. There Anne lived a relativily normal life and had many friends, Dutch, German, Christian, and Jewish. All of this changed when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and the Netherlands. In October 1940, Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David, Jewish children had to attend segregated schools, and Jewish business owners had to give up their …show more content…
Her first entry was adressed to Kitty - the name she called her diary. “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.” About a month later her sister recieved a summoning to a Nazi camp in Germany. The very next day - July 6, 1942 - the family went into hiding in the Secret Annex - a secret compartment in Otto’s office building - along with business partener Herman van Pels and his wife and son, Auguste and Peter. Employees Kleiman and Kugler and Jan, Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijl provided food and information from and about the outside world. Along with her diary she also had a notebook that she wrote quotes from her favorite authors, her own original stories and the beginning of a novel about her time in the Secret Annex. All her writings showed that she was very wise and had a rhetorical power stronger than ones of others her age. Writing was the way she kept her sanity for those years in the Secret Annex. She wrote on April 5, 1944, “When I write, I can shake off all my cares.” Her life was turned upside down early in