Book Report #1

This book is written by a young girl from 1942-1944. The young girl is not afraid of telling the truth-it is one of the widest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact.

Anne frank had an unhappy life. When she was thirteen she felt herself quite alone in the world. She has dark parents and a sister of sixteen. They are Jewish.

She has a friend called Kitty, and she write the diary to her friend, which is Kitty. Every time she writes to Kitty what happened, they are more often unpleasant than pleasant things. For example when she is in bed, she sees herself in a dungeon, without Mummy and Daddy. Sometimes she wanted to go by the roadside, of "secret Annex". She love them, but only because they are Mummy and Morgot, with Daddy it's different, she adores Daddy, she doesn't like anyone in the world but him(Daddy). He doesn't notice that he treats Margot different from her. Margot is just the prettiest, sweetest, most beautiful in the world. Her feelings are hurt. She wants something from Daddy that he is not able to give her.

Otto Frank, Anne's father, was the only annex inhabitant who survived the war. When he returned to Amsterdam after the war, he was given Anne's notebooks and papers that the Gestapo left scattered on the floor of the Secret Annex. Among these papers was her diary.

The first entry in Anne's diary is dated June 14, 1942, two days after her thirteenth birthday and three weeks before she and her family were to go into hiding. She wanted to confide completely in her diary, which she addressed as Kitty, she writes, because neither her friends nor her family seems sufficiently interested in understanding her deepest thoughts. The early entries show that Anne is a fairly typical, although exceptionally sensitive, young teenager.

There are the thoughts and expression of a young girl living under loneliness, sorrow, hurt. All of life in Germany from 1933 on was oriented towards preparation for was. Few, however, realized this. In September of 1939, World War 2 began with the invasion of Poland. Between then and 1945, this war was to cost nearly 55 million people they lives, among them six million Jews, most of whom were killed in the concentration camps.

In May, 1940, the Netherlands were occupied and, in spite of no end of promises, the German system was introduced here as well. The economy was entirely oriented towards German and many Dutch men had to go and work like slaves in German factories.

In February, 1941, the persecution of the Netherlands' 140,000 Jews began, 25,000 of whom were Jewish refugees from Germany, like the Frank family. No more than a few of them managed to go into hiding and thus escape the concentration camps and gas chambers.

The occupation of Holland meant five years of repression, slave labor, terror, hunger, and fear. Unhappily it also meant collaboration, but fortunately there was resistance as well. In any case it meant loss of an enormous number of innocent people. Anne Frank was one of them. Anne's diary is an appropriate monument to her hire spirit and are working still for peace. I am enjoy the plot cause Anne is not afraid of telling the truth.