Anne Frank

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A hero is someone you look up to, someone that made a difference and when I think of a hero I think of Anne Frank. She is proof that you don’t have to be older to make a difference. She was in her teens and made a difference in many people's lives. Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt Maine am Germany on June 12, 1929. She was only 13 when the holocaust came. Just because she was Jewish she was going to be killed. She was my age when the holocaust came and I don’t think I would have been able to live through it. She was amazing because she knew what she had to do to try to protect her family and survive through the anti-Jewish times. She made it farther in her life than half of the people that were Jewish in the holocaust. Amazingly she believed that in spite of everything people were still good at heart. I don’t think that I could think that of the people that are going to kill me.

Anne Frank was the daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Hollander Frank. Anne Frank lived in Maine am Germany for 4 years they then moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands to get away from the Nazism. Little did she know that Germany would soon invade Amsterdam and take over with Nazism. They were now stuck again in the anti- Semitic movement. They had to find somewhere to hide unless they would be killed. Her father was making a hiding place out of the swinging bookcase. They were not the only ones squished in there, their good friends were too. Once the Nazism was in full force they took to hiding on July of 1942, when she was only 13.

For Anne’s 13th birthday she got a journal. Out of what she got for her birthday that was her favorite because she loved to write. She named her journal “Kitty”. In her journal she wrote about mundane aspects of her life. She also wrote about how life was for her and her family during the holocaust. She was in her secret annex for 2 years with her friends and family. There were seven people squished into one small hiding place. Because Anne and her friends and family were stuck in such a small hiding place there was much disease. At these times they could not go outside from 9:00am to 7:00pm.

After the 2 years in their secret hiding place they were found and sent to concentration camp for Jews. The concentration camp was a horrible place. It was Germans kept them working for them in horrible working conditions, they got very little water and food. They would also interrogate the Jews to get information. They had been moved around from many concentration camps. At the camps the men were separated from the women. Some were killed immediately and some were not. Some women had to do slave labor. When Anne and her sister Margot were moved to another camp Anne was briefly reunited with two of her friends, Hanneli Goslar and Nanette Blitz. There was a disease, typhus epidemic, that was the disease that killed Anne and her sister. Margot was killed when she fell off her bunk because she was so weak. Anne died a few days later of Typhus Epidemic.

Anne Frank was definitely a hero to her friends and family and all Jews that had to go through the holocaust. She is someone to look up to because she never backed down. Anne Frank was brave and courageous and her story lives on today. Even though she died in a concentration camp, she lived her life and wrote about it so all of us today can know her story and know the suffering she and many Jews went through during the holocaust. She may have only lived to 15 years old but she is braver and wiser than many 70 or 80 year olds. She was a hero and in her writing she lives today.