Anne Frank Diary

Book Review #2

History 106-06

11/3/10

Johanna Hurwitz, Anne Frank: Life in Hiding

(Library of Congress Publication, 1968)

Anne’s diary entries showed her happy and positive attitude toward life even though she was threatening danger to her family. When I read the story I realized that she was hiding and was scared. This diary of Anne Frank held a very special point of view. It is made clear in the diary that Anne is a great writer. Reading this journal I did not find any resources and the diary fails to mention other scholars. In the diary of Anne, she provides information during the holocaust. Anne and her family were forced to move Germany was because the families relation to the Jewish faith. This story of a lonely girl is occasionally sad because of her struggle with being accepted. " Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees; Jews were required to wear a yellow star” This tells the reader that Ann and her family had to live a different way because if they continued to live in the conditions they did, they would be killed. The Nazi’s were clearly the antagonist in the story and added to the pressure of Anne and her pain. Anne and her family were forced to stay in an attic with family members to hide from Hitler and his army. I found that the book was very interesting because of the variety of emotion that the book came across. Ultimately I felt bad for Anne and her family because of the positions they faced resolving in Anne’s death. Apparently Anne and her family were in the same attic for years. What makes this book so special? Every moment of it is real and hardcore evidence of the position of the German-Jewish family. Anne was not older than 16 years old when she died. The diary does not reflect a bias point of view, but gives the reader concrete detail about the cold-hearted movement of Hitler and his people. Though the book was not informative, the book did tell us about the time of the Holocaust...