Name: Joey Goret Age 9
March 06, 2007 05:19 PM | Location:
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I have read many Anne frank books and I think she is a very important peson in history beacause she accomplished many tasks at a very young age . I will do a report on her for school and I will show my class this web site to learn about Anne Frank. In my class My friend and I are the only people in my class that are jewish. I have been researching the Holocust and been reading books like Night by Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, and Tales from the Seacret Annex by Anne M. Frank. This has really made me think and she is a great role model for us and she would of accomplished more if she was not killed. She had so much courage and faith but was not able to go out in the world and make more faith in all of the world.She made some thing of herself while hiding from danger which later danger caught her and did its worst,death. If danger did not seek her the unfinished noval would probably answer all of our concerns and grief that we feel hearing about her childhood and short life. The unfairness we jews have seeked in WWII is horrible and scary we jews should not feel guilt because were diffrent from others. They have sufferd so much and six million includind Anne Frank died while suffering we could hear the crys when we hear this story. This was such a horrible case of injustice it is allways on my mind. You are never to old or to young to make a diffrence and Anne Frank shows it. Joey Goret |
Name: Bianca
March 06, 2007 12:00 AM | Location:
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I remember reading Anne Frank for the first time nor hearing of that name for the first time. I was young,and did not understand but as I read her diary and watching her film. I felt like I was there right beside through her long journey.And all of you writers on here sharing your thoughts you all have hearts full of inspiration and spirit! Anne Frank was a remarkable person and still remains today as a writer full of courage.They say on many documents she didnt get to live her dream on becoming a writer.Thats not true, she did. Her dream lives on today and always will. She became a writer and wrote her feelings,her sweet passion her suffers and joy of life. Anne Frank you changed my life. |
Name: fatima
March 05, 2007 07:51 PM | Location:
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i feel that some of the topics in anne frank's essay "give!" still are happening today and I am trully shameful for what socity has come to. We shouldn't take things for granted because who knows if we'll be put in her place someday. I trully will charish the diary of anne frank. |
Name: Pama Bennett
March 05, 2007 04:00 PM | Location:
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I first read Anne's diary at the age of 11. My father had been a soldier in the war and participated in the liberation of many of the camps, so I had a strong interest in the war and the Holocaust. I was also keeping a diary, and I identified strongly with Anne at the time. Many years later, I visited her hiding place twice. The experience was overwhelming. I wrote a poem about it, because near me in the house were Jewish girls from Israel visiting the house and that impacted me greatly. The greatest lesson from her diary and her life is that when people give in to evil, they can be corrupted absolutely and do unimaginable things; to remain a human being, one must "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." |
Name: Steven Miller
March 02, 2007 06:58 PM | Location:
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I just finished reading Anne Franks diary for the first time, I must say, at 40 years old I can't help but feel how truly sad that after all they went through, how close they came to making it. That Margot and Anne were sooo close to "surviving" their whole ordeal. The whole events that happened to them and all others during this time is truly sad and horrifying. |
Name: Nicole F
March 02, 2007 12:13 AM | Location:
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Anne Frank's story has influenced people's opinion of the Holocaust as much as any other work of art. The reason being that is shows the inhuman victimization of the Jews during the Holocaust. It also shows that the belief that people are basically good no matter how horrendous their acts, can be reason for hope. When people have a sense of hope they can live through a lot of difficulty. When there is no reason for hope and people are victimized it is hard to face each day. Jews suffering at the hands of the Nazis could live under the worst of conditions if they had hope that the future would be better and people would come to their senses.
The reason for the book's success was because it was a human interest story that people could relate to, not only in terms of the hardships that were suffered but also because of the fact that Anne chronicled her move from puberty to adolescence. Not everyone goes through the hardships of the Holocaust but everyone can relate to a teenager experiencing love, family life, and the thoughts that go through a young teenagers mind. People are influenced to form an opinion of the Holocaust because they can understand the horror that the Holocaust caused by taking away the joy of life that one girl would normally experience as a teenager.
The Holocaust robbed Anne Frank of her youth and finally her life. In this one story people can form an opinion as to the horror of the Holocaust for the millions of Jewish families that suffered deaths and the cruel separation of family members from one another.
Anne suffers not only because of her own misfortune but also because of the guilt that she has to deal with because she is safer in her hiding place then her friends are in the concentration camps. Her friends are suffering and dying everyday because of the mistreatment going on in the camps.
Anne has faith that god will save her and the other Jews from suffering and that her diary will help the world learn from the Jews about how bad people can be treated. She is down but she never stops believing in god and the future. This is her strong personality and character. She was horrified by anti-Semitism and feels tension and fear about the cruelty of the world in which she is living however, she believes that the Allies will liberate the Jews like herself before the Nazis kill them. She has high expectations even in the most desperate situations. She also lives in tension because of the crowded living conditions but those conditions are far better than be crowded in a camp.
When Anne's book first got published I was touched when I read about Anne Frank's father's dedication to her. This quotation is of a man describing the dedication. "Otto Frank always said, 'I have two Annes one that belongs to me, and one that belongs to the world.' He worked the rest of his life for Anne's diary, and that gave [him] a lot to do because he received thousands and thousands of letters after the diary came out. Mostly from young girls that read it, that identified themselves with Anne, that wanted to know more about Anne. They wrote to Otto and it is said that he answered every single letter. It is said he answered approximately 30,000 letters in the rest of his life."
Anne's story is a sad story but it is inspirational in that her good thoughts and ideals live on to this day. In some ways her ideals living on represent good over evil. Several quotations from Anne's diary make this point.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I think peace and tranquility will return again.
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming that I would so like to be, and could be, If there weren't any other people living in the world.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe people are really good at heart. |
Name: Jennifer
March 01, 2007 05:01 PM | Location:
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The Diary of Anne Frank is an amazing. Anne Frank is one of my role models. She found happiness in the darkest time in history. It was extremely touching. It's fascinating how she just lived. It's also sad at the same time because, she didn't live. It was heartbreaking. When she wrote her last entry, she didn't know that the Gestapo was coming. Its so sad. Their are honestly not enough words to write or say how amazing Anne Frank is. It's true. It changed me so much. |
Name: Someone
February 28, 2007 07:52 PM | Location:
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I feel that Anne Frank puts us all to shame with her understanding and forgiveness |
Name: anonymous
February 28, 2007 07:24 PM | Location:
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Anne Frank is a very spirtual writer. If only she was still alive she would win an oscar for all her words of wisdom. I truely think that Anne Frank is speaking the truth when she says that "a poor kid is not different from a kid who is wealthy." A citizen who is wealthy treats its own kind as if he or her were nothing. Its like people don't realize what they have until it is gone. That's why I myself believe in anne frank. Also some people should read this very interesting book. |
Name: Brittany
February 28, 2007 04:55 PM | Location:
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Anne Frank is the most inspiring young woman I've ever read about. Anne has inspired me so much that I have chosen to do Anne for our wax museum at school. I'm 11 years old in the 6 grad. |
