How Does Anne’s Life Change in the Annex? Anne Frank is a Jewish girl who passed away in the holocaust. When she was about thirteen years old, she had to live in hiding because all Jews were being murdered.The holocaust was a very dark time, so Anne had to live in the annex until the war was over. Was she completely safe from all the dangers in the annex though? Unfortunately, she only lived there for two years and was later taken into a concentration camp. Furthermore, Anne was petrified to live in the annex because she had a limited supply of food, she could never go outside, and she would be killed if she was caught. Anne was very nervous about going into hiding, here is one example from the play: I expect I should be describing what it feels like to go into hiding. But I really don’t know yet myself. I only know it’s funny never to be able to go outdoors… never to breathe fresh air… never to run and shout and jump. It’s the silence in the night that frightens me the most. Every time I hear a creak in the house, or a step on the street outside, I’m sure they’re coming for us (Goodrich and Hackett,753-764). Even though living in the annex was very …show more content…
Her father strictly stated that they have to be quiet until twelve at night, and then they could move around and talk. They did this because they had a risk of getting caught, here’s a statement from an article that shows the fate of the Jewish people who got caught during that time. “For two years, his family lived in the ghetto, where between 1940 and mid-1942, 83,000 Jews died of starvation and disease. In 1942, when German authorities began the mass deportations that sent about 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka death camp, Marzynski’s parents hatched a plan”(Khan). Here this quote talks about a Jew named Marian Marzynski, a survivor of the holocaust. Anne was terrified to even look out the window during this time. Their attempt to prevent these horrific events from occurring, was pretty