Anne Frank

The Diary That Told A Story

 Anne Frank

• Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929.

• When she was 4 years old a group of people called the Nazis came to power.
Their leader was called Adolf Hitler.
• The Frank family were Jews and the Nazis hated Jews. Anne, her sister Margot
and parents, Otto and Edith, had to escape from Germany.
• They went to Holland, but very soon the Nazis had taken over Holland too. The
Frank family were in danger as all Jews were being sent to work camps.
• It was too late for the family to escape so they had to hide instead. For two
years, they hid behind a secret door in a tiny room in an old house along with
four other people.
• Jewish families in hiding had to live a life of silence as making noise could give
away their hiding place.
• When she was 13 years old in 1942 Anne received a birthday present of a diary
so she began to write in her diary to relieve the boredom.
• One day, someone told the Nazis that the Franks were hiding in an old house.
The Nazis came and knocked down the secret door.
• The Nazis found the Frank family and sent them away to the
work camps where they had to perform heavy labour.
• When the war ended only Otto Frank was still alive. Edith
had died of exhaustion and both Margot and Anne had died
of typhus.
• A friend of Otto Frank had found Anne’s diary and kept it
safe. It was later published as a book and it is now one of the
most famous diaries in the world.
• When Annelies was in the Annexe there was another family
with a boy called Peter and in her diary it said she started to
fall in love with him.
• Anne concluded that both Margot and she herself were being
treated by their parents like little children. She found she was
neater and more efficient and objective than her mother
and she was better at discussion and debates. She felt she
was superior to her in many ways-she felt neither respect nor
administration for her mother.
Food shortage makes life miserable-
•Food shortage in the entire Holland, things became very difficult
also. Many times, they had to eat repeatedly the same dishes.
Now no vegetables were available and there was shortage of
bread.
Emotional stability-
as time passed in the annex, people seemed to be tired with
circumstances. nobody seemed to be normal.
Disparity between man and women-
•Anne often thought about disparity between man and woman. She was not satisfied
simple with ‘it is unfair’. She wished to reach the root of it. Anne thought that woman
were dominated because men had greater physical strength. Women silently accepted
the arrangement for a long time. The longer they accept it, the deeper it became. But
now education, work and progress have opened women’s eyes. In many countries they
have been guaranteed equal rights. Modern women now look for right to be totally
independent. Anne felt that apart from being given equality women should be
respected as well. Anne hopes that in the next century, woman’s role would be more
effective.
Anne and peter’s friendship goes strong-
•The two of them spent quite some time together and they discussed all imaginable
topics. She didn’t feel shy discussing with him what she would have found difficult to
discuss with other boys.
•Anne gives her views about sex education. She felt that children both sexes should be
told everything at the age of twelve. When they are left on their own to gather
information they pick it up by bits and pieces . She felt that parents refrained from
discussing sex with their children, which is wrong.
Things to learn
• We can learn many things from The Diary of Anne Frank.  This book is
about survival.  It's about prejudice. And it's also about a young girl
trying to survive adolescence.  Many teens can relate to such a book
because Anne goes through all of the normal adolescent trials in life,
even though she's locked up.  Anne has a difficult relationship with her
mother, as most young girls do.  She often says things to hurt her
mother, yet she can't help her temper and continues to do so as time goes
on.  She also goes through the beginning stages of love.  She and Peter
enjoy each others company, and that leads to a very close bond that
many teens experience in their lives. 

• Anne also struggles with her identity.  She finds through her writing that
there are two Annes: a good one and a bad one.  She longs throughout
the story to find someone who will relate to her.  All of these feelings
she has can relate to most teenagers, no matter what year it is.  It is a
universal book.  Although it teaches of the Holocaust and what the Jews
went through, it reaches out to the reader to make the story more realistic
and believable.  We never want such a historical blunder to happen
again.
Anne Frank

•“Think of all the beauty still

left around you and be
happy.” (Anne Frank)