The Diary Of A Young Girl

Jaxon and I read Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, I finished it today. It's so sad and has such a great message. I think she was such an amazing person, I only wish they had survived a few more months...they were so close! I also love that all those people helped in the hiding of Anne's family, they really put themselves in danger. They too were hero's. It's insane that anyone can treat human beings the way the Jews were treated. I am so sensitive to others being mistreated that I don't think I could have survived one day. I think I would have died of a broken heart for sure.

Here is a post Jaxon recently wrote on his blog after reading Anne Frank. With his permission here it is...


A few days ago I read the the book: The Diary of Anne Frank. It is about how the Jewish people were persecuted by the Germans in WWII. It starts out on her birthday and everything is happy. At school she talks too much so her teacher makes her write a story called the incurable chatter box. Her dad Otto Frank receives word that the Germans are coming and also receives this list of things the Jews can no longer do.
1. Jews must wear a yellow six pointed star to distinguish themselves.
2. Jews must hand over their bicycles to the Germans.
3. Jews are banned from trains and forbidden to drive.
4. Jews are only allowed to do their shopping between 3 and 5 0'clock and can only go in the shops that have the placard "Jewish Shop".
5. Jews must be indoors before 8 o'clock and can't even sit in their own garden after that hour.
6. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and any other place of entertainment.
7. Jews may not take part in public sports, swimming baths, tennis courts, hockey fields and other sports grounds are prohibited to them.
8. Jews may not visit Christians.
9. Jews must go to Jewish schools and many more like that.
The Franks go into hiding with the Van Daans into an abandoned warehouse. They find a secret room that is hidden behind a bookcase and call it the Secret Annexe. Anne's father prepared this living space for them for nearly a year and when he got a notice from the Germans saying Margot (Anne's older sister) was to be sent to a labor camp, they decided it was time to hide. After six months a new person joins them, his name is Dr.Dussel. So he comes and he shares a room with Anne and hogs her desk. Mrs. Van Daan refuses to give up her expensive fur coat so they can have food. Everyone is really annoyed with her selfish behavior. Anne soon falls in love with the Peter Van Daan who is looks and not brains, this gives her someone to share her thoughts with but eventually she is over him. The company building that they hide in is visited by burglars twice and each time they steal some of their food. Every day a girl named Meip gives the Van Daans and the Franks fruit from the market place and a girl named Elli gives them school supplies. After two years of hiding and just one month before liberation, the Germans find them and send them to concentration camps. Anne is separated from everyone but her sister who eventually gets sick and dies. Anne meets up with her old best friend Lies and soon dies of starvation. She refused to eat and had thought her dad had also died, so she hadn't any hope. The only survivor is Anne's father Otto Frank. After trying in vain to find his daughters, he is finally told they died. Meip, the girl who had been taking them supplies while in hiding reveals to him she found Anne's diary. He later had it published and it still is read by many. Anne Frank is probably Hitlers best known victim. I really liked the book and I recommend it to you.