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In fact, everyone in her family (her sister and mother) died during those months except for Anne's father, whom she loved most dearly. Remember us, for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away. Anne, of course, was separated from her parents. About this same time in 1942, Anne received her journal and began recording her thoughts, feelings, and daily activities to chronicle their existence. She soon became weak from malnourishment and sickness.
Her writing has opened my heart to love more deeply and my mind to think more critically. Why do you avoid the eyes of her father. On August 04, 1944, following a tip, the German Security Police discovered the secret annex, took the inhabitant to the Gestapo, then a few days later stuffed them into a train with hundreds of other Jews and carted them off to hard labor at Auschwitz concentration camp. Even more, she possessed empathy, courage, faith, and determination that inspires and motivates. You can see that he stares at his daughter with such love, such desire to protect.Are you afraid that looking into his eyes you might think of your own father and his love for you. Is it to avoid seeing a girl, just a girl, who had but one wish: to live and love, and in so doing, make an impact in this world for good.
Separated from the world to be no more. Her father, Otto Frank, had moved his family to Amsterdam in 1933 to avoid the Nazi rise to power, but in 1940, Hitler invaded The Netherlands, thus trapping the family there. Just a few months before her 16th birthday and a month before the liberation, Anne died in the concentration camp. May your mind never find peace in your soul until you ask forgiveness from God Almighty and from the Jewish people for your part in this crime you now commit.They must have all known in the depths of their hearts they were sending humans, lovely human beings, to a horrible fate. This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. Anne's story has made an indelible impact on me and helped me see more clearly into both the loveliest and the most despicable parts of human nature.
Imagine the German military officer standing guard in the corner as armbands of death are stapled around the arms of the quiet family. It's written into our nature. Anne had a gift for words, and her writing contains conceptualizations about her experiences and the war that are powerful and thought-provoking. Do you suddenly glimpse - as though reflected in a mirror - your own frail arm outstretched to receive the sentence of death as your father and mother watch helplessly. We were going to be Lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. Anne Frank started her journal on her 13th birthday, in 1942. We played, we laughedWe were loved.We were ripped from the arms of ourParents and thrown into the fire.We were nothing more than children.We had a future. It takes a voice like Anne's, one whose self-honesty and examination allow her to see herself and others clearly, to inspire the rest of us to uphold the right of everyone to experience peace, freedom, and happiness.To conclude, here's a poem by Barbara Sonek called "Holocaust".
Moral principles of mutual respect and responsibility must be upheld and valued as the highest law. And yet a whole government was compelled to follow, follow, follow - that awful, insidious coaxing of Hitler as he beat a death drum to the near-annihilation of an entire race of people.How very important it is that absolute principles of the value and dignity of the human race are written into the constitution of every government's code. Remember the Holocaust and learn from it. From the ashes, hear our plea. We were taken away in the dead of night Like cattle in cars, no air to breathe Smothering, crying, starving, dying. Imagine the beating of young Anne's heart and the sick feeling in her stomach as she sits on those horrible aluminum seats awaiting her fate. We had dreams, then we had no hope. As sanctions against the Jews became stricter, Otto went in hiding with his family into "the secret annex", an assortment of hidden rooms in his office building where he had been manager.
Because all it takes is one man, an autocrat like Hitler, to compel his government to follow him and soon the whole country will be following, their moral compass disoriented by the magnetism of the mighty. His eyes keep finding the ground but he cannot avoid their eyes when he looks up.Why do you avoid their eyes, young officer. Thus, her journal is not only a suburb retelling of events but a powerful statement about the capacity of a human's capacity to love in the midst of fear. My mind keeps returning to that horrible car drive to the Gestapo and the thoughts that must have raced through Anne's mind.
thank you. Our middle school students are enjoying this story. Great purchase. Love the discount.
A little more used than advertised, but alright.Thank you. It was as described.
Cannot expect too much historical commentary, but a lot of Feminist sensitivity in it (warning for guys readers). I will give a 4 out of 5 stars (due to the fact that it is not exactly my kind of book). It is a diary written by a 14 year old Jewish girl, who was forced into hiding with her family in Holland during WWII - hiding from the occupying Nazi Germans. The knowledge of the fact that she died afterward in a concentration camp (covered in Afterward of the book) makes her writing more tragic and reflecting. I would think that this book is appealing especially for teenager, but I knew adults love this book as well. You will be surprised how smart this 14 yr old girl (and her writing) was. Diary entries deal with her thought throughout the 2 years hiding:- hope, hopelessness, suffering trough cramped spaces with limited resources, dealing with personal conflicts between hiding members, thoughts of adolescent, etc.
I had grown to love this little girl and nothing seemed as unfair as her demise. She was the epitomy of all the beauty that was destroyed in the holocaust. The words of her diary were an invitation into her heart and soul, and, in such a short time, I felt as though I knew Anne personally. But I realized that through her death, she spoke for the millions of innocent people that died unknown. Anne was a martyr and she will be remembered here on earth and in heaven. She had such a brilliant mind and a warm heart. Even though I knew how the story would end, when I finished it I wept bitterly.
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