Name: Daniel Parmelee
December 02, 2003 08:29 PM | Location:
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After reading the Diary of Anne Frank, and researching about the holocaust, it made me think about what she went through. All that time closed up from the outside world, and in a tight space with another family, could make a person crazy. Anne kept her cool. She wrote an amazing diary. Her writing really got across what she was feeling. It can almost make you feel like you are in her shoes. If Anne were alive today, I?m sure she would be real proud of her work.
After researching about the holocaust for my Humanities class, now I really know what the Jews and other groups went through during the holocaust. What Hitler did to them has to be the cruelest thing I have ever heard about, it is one of the most horrible things that has happened in world history. This website really helped me with understanding what the holocaust was like and how it affected people. Now that I have learned and know so much about the holocaust, it really makes me angry. I hope that the world in the future will never experience anything like this again. If this tragedy like this happens again, then I guess the work of many people went to waste. |
Name: Jordan
December 02, 2003 07:19 PM | Location:
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I was about 12 or 13 when I first read her diary. I was really moved by the book and play. It was mind boggiling to think about how she had to live her life! If I were to live in those cramped quarters for even over a week much less a few years i think that i would have gone crazy. I admire her very much for her strenght and courage. I think that it would have scared me so much to have the thought of being caught by these evil people and taken to a concentration camp. But Anne never ( or at least allmost never) lost her cool while she was in the annex. I dont think that the website really changed my view of Anne but it did make me feel more compassion toward what she and the others went through. The website opened my eyes to the terrible things that happened under Hitlers reign. |
Name: becky
December 02, 2003 03:23 PM | Location:
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I can't remember when I read her diary - I think I was probably about 13 or 14.
I just am amazed that even with the trauma that she suffered she still had a very strong will and believed that everyone was good.
She is a great role model for women of any age!! |
Name: Heather
December 02, 2003 02:34 PM | Location:
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When I first read Anne's diary, I remember thinking how ironic the world is because we all think we have come "so far" after reading her work, but the truth is, we are quite the same. I remember thinking that Anne would most likely be sorely disillusioned by the "progress" we have made today....for we completely lost sight of the big picture. |
Name: Teresa
December 02, 2003 07:58 AM | Location:
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I began to read the diary of Anne Frank as an assignment for my World Civ. class. The struggles she had and they way she overcame everything is amazing. I'm so happy that I read her diary, she has changed my life and the kind of person I want to be. |
Name: Alexandra
December 01, 2003 09:57 PM | Location:
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13 and 14 are hard years for everyone, especially if your living in cramped quarters and cant leave a three-bedroom annex for two years. Anne still went through the stages of becoming an adolescent just like the rest of us. Think if you had to live in an annex while you were 13 and 14. No telephone, TV, play station, or cd players. She still went thorough the transition of becoming an adolescent. Anne did not seem to be extremely afraid of being caught by the Nazis or the Nazis themselves. In some ways I don?t she really realized what was going on outside. Anne hadn?t been outside for two years though. I think that if I had been Anne I wouldn?t have been able to delt with the pressure that if you make one sound during certain times during the day you and your family and friends would have to be sent away to concentration camps. Not being able to breath fresh air would have driven me insane. While reading Anne?s diary you could tell how much she loved to write. Anne wanted people to read what she was writing. If Anne hadn?t died she could have done great things with her writing. |
Name: Conor H.
December 01, 2003 09:32 PM | Location:
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The diary of Anne Frank was a very heartbreaking book, it is so depressing that Anne Frank lived through two years of misery in a cramped annex with 7 other people. Only to be caught when the war is a year from being over. Reading the diary of Anne frank made me feel how sad it must have been for so many Jewish people to live with hope at lasting through the war only to be caught and killed in the end. Jewish people were not the only ones who had to live in fear though, many crippled, gay, and gypsies had to also and that makes me angry because they could support Hitler yet he killed them anyway. Reading this book made me think what it could have been like for some of my family who had to live in fear either in the States or in Europe. It also made me hate Hitler even more for his cruel and unusual tactics to boost himself to power amongst his people. Reading this book also made me feel what I would do in this situation I would probably curl up into a ball and hide in a corner for a long time. This would be so grueling and intimidating that I might even commit suicide because of the stress and worry. Anne Frank was a strong soul and was not intimidated by much, even death. |
Name: Patrick McAleer
December 01, 2003 07:51 PM | Location:
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When I first started reading The Diary of Anne Frank, I had a lot of feelings. I have always known about the horrors of the Nazis and the Holocaust, but I guess I never understood it fully. I never really thought about what it was like for the Jewish families hiding from the Nazis. The only thing I thought of was the people in the concentration camps. Yes, those people did experience probably the most harm out of all of them, but there was so much more going on that I didn?t know about, and I think a lot of people don?t know everyone affected by the Holocaust.
My immediate feeling was gratitude towards Meip and Mr. Kraler. They were not Jewish; the Nazis had no buesness with them. But still they felt they needed to help out the Franks and the Van Daans. They knew that if they got caught hiding them their fate would be the same.
The fact that these people had to hide from a force out to kill them, for no real reason, disgusted me in many ways. There was no reason for what Hitler did, he targeted many other groups then just Jews, and killed millions. I always knew this fact, but reading Diary of Anne Frank really helped me understand it. |
Name: Chas Sandridge
December 01, 2003 06:12 PM | Location:
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After learning about Anne Frank and her life I was blown away. I don?t think that anyone her age or anyone at all should have to endure such pain. Her personal experiences were terrible to imagine. She had to wait as her Christian friends were out playing in the sun and playing with people their age. Anne had nothing to do except to talk to her parents and some older people that were staying in the upstairs of the office building. To see outsiders only once a week had to have been unbearable. To be stuck with your family for a couple of days are bad enough but to have to stay with them and other people must have been even worse. Bombs going off throughout every night had to be unbelievably bad. As a teenager I know from personal experiences that it is not easy to sit still. Anne had to sit still for two and a half years. She couldn?t get fresh air and when she finally did she was in the worst mood of her short life. If Anne Frank wouldn?t have written in her diary then no one would have found out how bad the holocaust actually was. We would have figured but with that piece of writing we could understand first hand how bad things got. I admire the way she never gave up. Anne Frank should still be living but sometimes you?re in the wrong place at the wrong time and that is life. |
Name: angryhobbit
December 01, 2003 05:54 PM | Location:
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I can't belive all this happend to a young girl in Germany. When I first started reading her diary, I kind of felt bad for her and her family. I can't even imagine all the things they had to go thorough. It must have been really hard for them. This book has to be one of my favorite books f all time. We watched anne go from a little girl into a mature teenager. We went through all her problems with her, watched her cry, and watched her laugh. Though Anne is gone now, she will never be forgotten, Her words moved me in away as which I can't desribe. It was undescribable. |
