... has had a great influence on art, whether it's literature, theatre or cinema. Tragically, the Holocaust has been the subject of many books and movies. The Diary of Anne Frank is the diary of a young girl captured in the time period of the Holocaust. Anne Frank, her parents and younger sister went into hiding at the Nazi takeover in Holland. They were sheltered and cared for by Miep Gies and her husband ... grandparents. Anti-Jewish laws affected all Jews in almost all the professions. (Rogasky 26) Not only were the Jews in Germany affected but also as war broke out, other Jews in countr...

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Anne Frank was born on the 12th June 1929 into a Jewish family in Germany, in the town of Frankfurt an Main however when Anne was 4 years old the Frank family emigrated to Holland where they would be safe from Hitler who was der fuehrer (-the leader) and likely to put them into concentration camps or maybe kill them because they were Jewish. Hitler believed, that any other races that were ... in which Hitler was in power were a nightmare in history not only for the Jews and those who Hitler persecuted but also for the whole of the world. Anne's father was called Otto and her mother was called...

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... believe people are good at heart." This is what Anne said in her diary. In spite of all the prejudice, she still believed this. Forgetting what the Nazis and Hitler did to her and her family. Anne didn't do a thing to deserve this, all she did was be a Jew at the wrong era of time. Treated like a piece of trash by the Germans, just waiting to be thrown away or ... this create men like Hitler. Hitler came from a normal German family, but because of all the biased things he noticed in childhood, this normal boy became a full out dictator of war and prejudice. Without prejudice, maybe the ...

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Dear Anne Frank, I have read plays and books based on your diary,and about the reality of fighting for your life, being in hiding living in fear of dying tomorrow, and being a teenager without freedom. I am very sorry you had to suffer and line in fear of being killed just because of your religion. It's very sad you died at such a young age. The world is different now. Everybody has ... what your skin color, sex, or religion is, we are all equal. There are still prejudice people, but there hasn't been masses of people being killed because of it. All people are aloud to visit the local library...

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... persecution, Otto relocated to Holland, and commenced a food products business. Simultaneously, Mrs. Frank and the girls moved to Aachen. The entire Frank family reunited in Amsterdam by the spring of 1934. For the subsequent five years, Anne attended the Montessori school where she made many friends, both boys and girls. After the declaration of war in 1939 and the capture of Poland, Denmark, and Norway, Hitler's Germany moved to crush Holland in April ... illegal radio. On August 4, 1944, with the information provided by a Dutch informer, the Gestapo broke into the secret annexe. They...

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Anne Frank and her family originally lived in Germany. During the early 1930's Hitler came to power, and because the Franks were Jewish and Hitler had decided to purge the German race of alien strains, especially Jews, their lives were in danger and they migrated to Holland. For a time they lived normal lives. However, in due course, Hitler's party, the Nazi's, occupied Holland. The Jews were ... hideout with another family, the Van Daans, who had a son, Peter, of about Anne's age. A Mr. Dussel, a dentist and "rather stuffy" as Anne puts it, became another member of the group. Friends on the...

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