Diary / Anne Frank

 Word Count: 212

Parker Greene

From Diary by Anne Frank

" … Our many Jewish friends are being taken away by the dozen. These people are being treated by the Gestapo without a shred of decency, being loaded into cattle trucks and sent to Westerbork, the big Jewish camp in Drente. … We assume that most of them are murdered. The English radio speaks of their being gassed. " (pg. 280)

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who grew up during World War II under the oppression of Hitler, since she was Jewish. Anne Frank had to live most of her childhood living in hiding from the oppressive Nazi's that Hitler had made specifically to cause genocide and gain more control for Germany. The feeling of stress, anxiety, and loneliness seem to be the most apparent emotions displayed from her diary and I know that I and many others feel a lot of these feelings at some point, but I wonder how it was dealing with these and fighting for your life everyday by having to be super careful. Anne Frank and her family have heard many stories about what happens at the camps where the other Jews are taken, which must only amplify a lot of these negative feelings while hiding for her survival.