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Anne Frank is a diary of a Young Jewish girl who had to stay hidden with her

family and another four people in a warehouse on the ground floor and
offices in Amsterdam, Holland. They moved into their secret new home in
July 1942 and her diary began a few weeks before they move in. Anne was
the youngest daughter that Otto, her father, and Margot, her mother, had.
She has got a sister named Margot who was three years older than her. The
another family that lived with them were Mr and Mrs van Daan and their son
Peter (who that as the days go by, he becomes closer to Anne, becoming her
love interest and her friend). By the way, Mrs van Daan had problems with
the cheerful and amusing personality of Anne as long as she was suffering
biologic changes in her body (her first period) and emotional destabilization
too. Besides, a dentist named Alfred Dussel moved there too and the had to
share room with Anne. In other matters the Second World War started the 1
of September in 1939 and it left punishments and consequences to the Jews
from the Anti-Semites. Dutch Jews were not allowed to travel by bus or train.
When they went out, they had to wear a yellow star. They could only go
shopping in jewish shops and they had to be indoors by eight o´clock. All
those orders conditioned the life’s of these people and they had to stay in a
state of alert, measure the food, and stayed quite at nights. Miep, Mr
Kleiman and Bep were the helpers of Otto and they provided food and
clothes (did the shopping) for the Secret Annexe. MR M. was the man who
sell potatoes, butter and jam on the black market. One day, Wednesday, 29
March 1944 Anne heart that Mr Bolkestein, from the government, was
speaking on the Dutch broadcast form London. He said that after the war
they wanted everybody´s diaries and letters about war, they would be an
interesting part of history. This improve the desires of Anne of becoming a
journalist, because notwithstanding the situation she had to live she believed
that she might be alive after the war. She wouldn´t became a housewife like
her mother and Mrs van Dan, she needed more than just a husband and
children. She wanted to be useful, and brought enjoyment to all people, go
on living after her death. She couldn´t launch a book as such but her diary
helped us to know how frightened the women are during the air raids. How
the houses shook like grass in the wind. Or about the awful illnesses that
people caught there. How people had to wait in line for vegetables and all
kinds of other things too. How doctors couldn´t visit the sick, since their cars
and bikes stolen at once. There were so many thieves, little children, broke
windows of people´s homes and steal whatever they can. The public phones
were stolen, and all parts of the electric clocks on the street corners too.
Pitifully Anne´s diary ends Friday, 1 August 1944 and in 4 August 1944 at 263
Prinsengracht, the addresss of the Secret Annexe. German and Dutch police
arrested the eight people who were hiding there. They also arrested two of
their helpers, Mr Kluger and Mr Kleiman. Miep and Bep were not arrested.
The police took all the money and anything valuable they could find in the
annexe. Miep later found Anne´s diary in the building and kept it safely until
after the war. Anne and Margot were taken to a concentration camp in
Germany where they died of a terrible illness who attacked the prisoners
there. The only who could survive of the eight was Otto and the spent the
rest of his life trying to share the massage of his daughter´s diary with the
rest of the world. Finnaly he died in 1980.

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