Anne Frank

Anne Frank (www.annefrank.org)

Anne Frank was a typical, Jewish girl in a tight family, until Hitler came into power and changed their lives. Anne Frank had said in her diary, “How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank had suffered being in the holocaust. On her thirteenth birthday she received a diary which she called kitty. Anne wrote in kitty everyday while her and her family were in hiding. In her diary Anne talks about how life is and what her life was like before they had to go into hiding. Anne grew up in Amsterdam, with her older sister and parents. When the Franks were in hiding they were joined by the Van Pels, a family of three.

Anne Frank (www.annefrank.org)

Anne Frank was a typical, Jewish girl in Amsterdam; she loved her family with all her heart. Anne Frank was born June 12th, 1929, in an interesting home with an older sister named Margot. It’s been three years that the Germans have been campaigning of discrimination of the Jews. The family is forced to go into hiding when the Nazis start to arrest the Jews for just being Jews. In hiding the Franks are joined by the Van Pels, which makes living even harder with the food supplies even though there are only three people plus a cat.

Anne Frank (www.annefrank.org)

Anne continued to write in her diary, until August 4th, 1944 when the Nazis showed up from an anonymous phone call. Before the Nazis arrived, Peter and Anne were getting closer, they started to talk everyday and one day on the balcony off the stairs, after a hard night before with a burglary, Peter kissed Anne. As the Franks were being forced onto the truck, Anne forgot her diary. Meip the family friend picked it up and everything else, he could save. Anne and her family were taken to a German police station where the police could decide what to do with them.

Anne Frank with her mom and sister

As they were on the train ride it was one of the worst days in the Franks life; they were separated from each other and nobody knew if they were going to live. Anne, her sister and mother were sent to Auschwitz, where their life was miserable. They stayed in a box car for many days crammed with seventy other people they didn’t even now, with no food. When they finally reached the camp half of those people were killed, but Anne and her family got lucky. Later on Anne and her sister Margot had to leave their mother and go to a different camp called Bergen-Belsen and life there wasn’t even close to being better than before. The sisters’ mother survived another two months, but then died of starvation and depression. During the horrid days at Bergen-Belsen people were trying to survive the long work days with little food, Anne and Margot were two of them. Anne and her sister would always be seen together and they would never leave each other’s sides. Anne and Margot struggled to stay alive. Anne told an old school friend that she didn’t have any parents and if she knew her father was alive she might have the strength to keep on living. The Nazis were struggling to stay in power from the Americans and Russians, they kept moving the Jews to different camps and even killing more of them. Anne and her sister struggled to stay alive in Bergen-Belsen with a disease called Typhus.

Anne Frank and her sister Margot

Caring, adventurous, ambitious, perseverance, are all traits that my hero Anne Frank possesses. Despite everything Anne Frank has been through in her life, and struggling to stay alive in a death camp, she almost made it through but only a month before the camp was liberated by the Russians. She inspired others by trying to survive the holocaust and Meip Gies retelling her story so everyone will know truly why Anne Frank is a still hero to billions of people around the globe. Anne Frank’s diary was translated into 67 languages so almost everybody could read it. Anne’s diary told everyone how life was like in hiding and her not even knowing that billions of people will be reading her diary after she has died.