Anne Frank Research Paper

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Imagine your family was being discriminated against because of your race or religion. Then, a new ruler takes over your country, and your whole family has to go into hiding to keep from being tortured. Many people would call that a terrifying experience. One person who had this experience was Anne Frank. Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl famous for the diary she kept while hiding in an attic in Nazi Germany during the holocaust, has had a dramatic effect on literature; her legacy lives on through her book and a museum, named in her honor, in the old warehouse where her family hid. To begin, Anne Frank lived a traditional childhood prior to her time in hiding. Anne, born June 12, 1929, was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Until Anne was …show more content…

“To avoid deportation or exile to the camps, Anne’s parents go into hiding in the annex of the building that houses Otto’s business.” (“Anne Frank” par. 5). The Frank Family was later joined by the van Pels’ and Fritz Pfeffer (Balinski par. 8). For survival the Franks, and other memebers of the Secret Annex, relied on Miep Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kulger, and Bep Voskuijl (Balinski par. 9). After reveiving a tip from an anonymous source, security raided the Secret Annex on August 4, 1944 (Balinski par. 10). The people of the Secret Annex were moved to Westerbork transit camp and later to Aushwitz-Birkenau (Balinski par. 10). After being found Anne and her sister Margot were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, due to their age (“Anne Frank” par. 3). Furthermore, during her time in the attic, Anne kept a diary, that was later published, and has become a source of inspirations of many facing adversity. Although Anne did not survive the Holocaust, her diary was saved and later published to be “The Diary of a Young Girl” (Balinski par. 5). The Diary of Anne Frank is in more than sixty languages and is also found in multiple books (Wilson par. 5). “If atrocity testimonies now represent a growing body of texts in the world republic of letters, Anne Frank’s Diary represents the literary equivalent of a capital” (Wilson