Anne+Frank

Reviewed by Connor Johnson
This novel is about a thirteen year old Jewish girl named Anne Frank. She lived in Holland with her family but in 1942, they fled to their home in Amsterdam to go into hiding. Their whereabouts were eventually betrayed to the Gestapo and were sent to the concentration camps.

This novel reminds me of another novel I’ve read on WWII called Night by Elie Wiesel because both of the books are written by teenagers about their experiences during the war. Night is more graphic because the author is in a concentration camp seeing people be murdered and treated like animals and Anne Frank is in hiding but the same thoughts go through their minds about what is happening. They become more detached from their family, and they face the challenge of dealing with the idea that they could very well die at any moment.

I liked the novel because it gave a very real illustration of what is going on at this time. She is not afraid to speak the truth of what is happening and I like that. But the book can be very slow at time which makes reading it hard but you want to keep going to find out if they manage to survive in the end. Also the novel is good because it is written in a language that is easy to understand so people of any age can get the most out of the novel.

This book has been a classic since the day it was published and by keeping her alive through her book, we are fulfilling her wish “I want to go on living even after my death.” Anyone of any age, race, gender or religion can read this novel and get something out of it.

Reviewed by Joyce Joves
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. 1942.

“Yes, I’m still alive, indeed, but don’t ask where or how (Frank 13).”

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank incorporates the experiences her and her family had to go through. The fact that she was Jewish led her and her family in to hiding because they were bound to get captured by the Nazis. The 13-year-old young girl showed bravery by writing detailed diaries about her life. It was like she tried to make every negative situation into a positive one. This book creates a journey for the reader (you) to experience the hardships through the devastating Holocaust.

The novel shows a different type of perspective to the Holocaust. Instead of being placed in the ghettos, Anne Frank and her loved ones went into hiding in her dad’s old office building, which had an “extra room” that no one heard about, which they called the “Secret Annexe”. Even though it seemed like they were in a better place, it wasn’t a placed you would actually call “home”, there they faced hunger, boredom, consequences referring to sound, so that no one could know that someone’s up there. The family had to go through that for a little over more than two years. It was really horrible. The book was really remarkable, it increased my knowledge of the Holocaust and World War II because of the details it had according to what Anne Frank went through. I think that books like these continue to inspire readers like me to have other students read and learn about it as well.

The only negative comment I would write about this book is that it doesn’t include that much about what goes on in the “Secret Annexe” but then again I’ve learned that there weren’t a lot of activities you can do especially when you’re in hiding and can’t do that much but whisper and sleep to make the least amount of noise possible. This book is to be read by people who have a kind heart, who are willing to learn about the perspectives of the Holocaust in depth. The language in this book is quite average and it will not be that hard for a high school student to negotiate mentally.

Review by Brianna Kinahan Anne Frank is a novel about a girl who was growing up in WW11. This novel is the diary of her time spending in hiding while trying to escape the Nazi’s and the concentration camps. When Anne family went into hiding she was 13 years old and stayed there for 2 years with her family and family friends. After being caught into hiding she died a year in the concentration camps. Her father Otto was the only one of her family to survive the holocaust.

This Novel relates to WW11 because it is about Anne’s feelings being put into hiding in a small apartment with many people. The reason she was in hiding in the first place was because her hometown of Frankfurt, Germany was too unsafe because of the Nazi power. So her family and she moved to Amsterdam where they were found.

This novel relates to a book the class had read in an earlier semester called __Night__ by Eli Wiesel. Night is more of Eli’s time though the concentration camps when Anne Frank was more about her experiences hiding. But both alike in time. I fairly thought that both of the books were good. Even though they were so different they were also so alike on many terms. I think that I liked both books because they were both non fiction and those are my favorite types of books to read. Reading Anne Frank was not hard to read. I felt it was fairly easy grammar and because when Anne wrote this she was not much younger that I.   This book would be best for a reader to read if the reader was into true stories or biographies like I myself am. Although this story of this young girl was sad and it didn’t have a perfect ending it was still a good book and I would recommend it to anyone of the same likes of books. If I had to choose a genre for this book would fall under it would be drama because the people living of the time of the war had to go through so much and this is a perfect example of what a young girl in hiding would go through. All together it was a great book for me.

REVIEW BY SARAH ST. CLAIR
 * //A Diary of a Young Girl is a novel about Anne Frank's childhood in the Jewish Lyceum school in Amsterdam. Later on, she gets sent to a concentration camp and writes about her life growing up in World War II. She started to write when she was thirteen years and went into hiding for two years and has wrote during that time. This relates to World War II because it shows how badly the Jews were treated and how some Jews could have an ordinary life and just one day get sent off by people that can just take control of them and lead them to a horrible place where they can try to live for survival and get tortured as their days go on, or they can end their lives because some believe that life is not worth living if they are going to be treated this way. This also reminds me of the book NIGHT by Elie WIESEL because it was the story told with two teenagers life in danger and they both seemed like they had the same experiences that they went through. i would have to say that i enjoyed reading this book because i could actually imagine what it would have been like to go through that experience as a teenager or at any age. As i read, i had pictures in my head of the descriptions int he book, such as Jews getting beaten to death and getting sent to the crematory. I never realized how terrible it was for the Jews to go through that dreadful experience just waiting to see what happens to yourself; who lives and who dies. i think any reader who wants to really know what happened and the real story on what really went on in the Holocaust should read this. This book isn't just a whole bunch of information put together. This is a real story on what had happened to a young girl and her experiences and thoughts about what was the daily routine in the deadly concentration camp. I think if this book would have to be put in a specific genre, i would have to put it in drama because it seems more like a dramatic event than a horror, even thought there is a lot of horror that revolves around this subject of matter. Overall, i thing the writing of this book was generally easy. i think it was easy to read because it was written by a teenager and i can relate to the thoughts of the writing.//**

===This is a diary of a 13-year-old girl named Anne Frank who writes this during the time of the holocaust. When Jews are being sent to concentration camps, she and her family go in hiding in a secret annex and that is where she writes most of her entries.=== ===Anne Frank’s diary shows what it was like to be in hiding during the Holocaust, to have very little and trying not to get caught. She talks about their radio and the events she learns about like advances of the British army. This book related to WW2 because it was during that time she wrote her entries and she was Jewish so she was hiding from the Nazis.=== ===This book was okay. There were some part that were slow and boring and I would want to stop reading, but it was mostly very good and interesting to read and throughout the book, you never stop wondering if she and her family make it through the Holocaust.===

This is a good book for people for people who want to find out more about Anne Frank and who she really was.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young girl Reviewed by Sandra Galvan

Anne Frank kept a diary which today became a book for one to read and understand about the Holocaust. Basically, the time this diary was written in was at the time when the Jewish were being treated incredibly wrong by the Nazi Party which was led by Hitler. Just as she writes and one reads each entry of her diary one realizes the dehumanizing events taking place. She lived very happy with her family until one day everything changed. Everything became dull when she and her family are made to go into hiding due to Hitler’s power upon them, the Jews. This diary, builds up on ones knowledge about the events performed during the Holocaust. As far as for me, this book is a memoir because it describes the author’s life through the author’s very own words.

This book definitely expands one’s knowledge about the Second World War in the sense that it covers an immense part of what happened. This book cannot only relate to other books but to perhaps everyone. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is somewhat similar to the Anne Frank Diary because they are both written by teenagers going through almost the same situations in the Holocaust. I’d say that anyone who writes in a journal or simply enjoys writing should be able to connect with Anne Frank in some way. She, for example, wrote in her diary not knowing that one day everything she wrote was going to be such help in understanding the horrors of the Holocaust. If one begins to think about such thing one might come up with the question as to: what if what I write today will be viewed by millions tomorrow?-shouldn’t that be a rhetorical question if one is talking about a “Kitty”, (Anne names her diary Kitty) like the one Anne took within her soul to write about every single thing she felt in that Secret Annex?

Anne Frank’s life story may not be like one’s but one way to put is that she just likes one, wanted to pursuit happiness yet she was not able to reach that point necessarily in her life time. Now, the duty here is to simply open her diary and completely give in to her diary, for that it is quite astonishing and indeed seems like gossip because it’s a diary but take it like invading educational property. Reading someone’s diary without their consent may be penalized in some way so that Is why I like to view this as invading educational property. I actually would say that I liked this book a lot simply because I myself am a writer and it’s always interesting to see the way others write when they think no one else will be reading so. Although I would also like to say that I do not exactly know the reasons as to why this diary was published in the first place but that I disagree with its publishing. My diary or my journal should never be published, or so that’s what I think as of today, I cannot speak for tomorrow.

Reviewed by Rosa Sanchez
 * Anne Frank The Diary Of a young girl**

Anne Frank the diary of a young girl is the diary of Anne writing down her experiences during WW2. It was found after she had died and was published and now is very famous. Also in her diary she talks about her love life and so on. Most of her life she spent in the “secret annex”, with her family and some other relatives. She was in need of food, water, and other daily utensils. This book is long but still has a lot of details. So this book is one of those books that keeps you reading. For example like this whole book was journal entries. So sometimes she would leave a subject untold so if you want to know what is going to happen next you just have to keep on reading. Something that I really enjoyed about this book is that it makes yourself ask questions like what is going to happen next.? And those sort of questions. After I was done with this book it helped me realize how much of a paradise we live in, because they had to struggle a lot. And yet today we are not satisfied. And I understand ww2 much better. This book I recommend to people who are willing to read non-stop. Or for people who want to know more about ww2 better. But especially teens because Anne was a teen herself

Brigitte Garner 5-1-08 A& G Block

“Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl” is a book written of pieces of Anne Franks diary during the Holocaust. It tells the story of how her and her family were hiding from Nazis for two years. Throughout the book Anne writes about her days hiding in the annex. She, just like any young girl spent a lot of her time questioning and thinking about the situation she was in. She did not understand why Jews were singled out. Anne and her family were betrayed and turned in to the Nazis. She was sent to the concentration camps and died.

This book shows what it was like for Anne and probably many other Jews, to hide, be singled out and how they had to deal with it all. This book deals with the real issues and questions asked about the Holocaust. Anne spent two whole years, where she had to look deep into herself and think about her identity.

Even though her diary had many vivid details that I didn’t want to hear about, I thought it was a very good book. Many times I would stop and wonder what the Germans thought they were doing. Anne lost two years of her life hiding because she was afraid the Germans would find her and her family and take them to a concentration camp. I have a lot of respect for Anne and her family for having faith that all of this would end. After reading this book I gained a lot of respect for all the Jews who kept their faith.

This is a good book for everyone to read, elementary school kids to adults. It deals with difficult issues about the Holocaust that everyone should know about.

By Tony Young**
 * BOOK REVIEWED

The Diary of Anne Frank is about a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank. Her family and herself, and another family are hiding from the Nazi’s. The two families are hiding a little place called the Secret Annex. Her family is betrayed and Anne Frank and a relative get sent to a concentration camp, her mother gets sent to Auschwitz and gets killed. Her father survives and the rest of his life tells the world about her diary.

This book relates to WWII, because it’s about two Jewish families hiding from the Nazi’s, and not trying there hardest by not getting sent to a concentration camp.

This book was a pretty good book. I enjoyed reading this book. It was cool because this little girl tells you her story about how she tries to survive in hiding from the Germans. Her diary was well written, especially for a very young girl.

I recommend this book to readers, who like to read about other people’s lives, and like to learn about WWII. This book is a very easy book to read, but long book

This book is about a young girl named Anne Frank, who was living her life to the fullest. She had a normal, typical life, and wrote in her diary every day. She faced a lot of problems, just as all teenagers do. Her life slowly went downhill when her family had to move into a hiding place. Although things were getting really bad she continued to write in her diary. The family was so unsafe were they were staying that they could not talk loud because the neighbors would suspect something wrong and report them. Anne didn’t feel at home at all, she said she could not get use to there new home. If I were to connect this book to the ww1 reading I would connect it to the book I read earlier this year; Night. Because of the similar tragedies and situations. When reading this book, I found it to be somewhat emotional because of what the family went through; this book made me want to keep reading, because of how it starts. It starts with a happy beginning. And for me it ended with me thinking. This book is for those who like to read about history and every day life; so you get both. I believe anyone who reads this book can relate to it in so many ways and will enjoy reading it, and most likely will recommend it to someone else. **Reviewed by Jasmine Smith**

=Reviewed by Jonathan Wong=

Anne Frank is about this young Jewish girl who hides in annex during WWII. The time she was in the annex. She was able to write a diary in secret.Anne Frank tells a story of the Holocaust from a different perspective and helps inform people that not all the Jews were immediately captured and sent to concentration camps. The book also illustrates how severe the situation was even if you were not in a concentration camp. The living conditions were just a bad. It was hard to obtain food and toiletries so they had to ration most things and the constant fear of being caught.

Anne Frank connects to the book Night because both are about children in the Holocaust. Anne Frank is just a different situation but equally as sad and depressing. Anne Frank is kind of the opposite to Night because Elie survived and his dad didn't, but in Anne Frank it was the opposite her dad survived and she didn't. Anne Frank shows the extremes of the Nazis and how they continued to search houses for Jews until the end of the war. No Jew was ever safe. In alot of ways hiding and going to the concentration camp is almost the same thing because you have to ration food. They also had to live in small living spaces with alot of people.

The book was good I suggest this book to all who are interested in the Holocaust and people who read Night. If you read Night this is a good book to compare and contrast their lives. Anne Frank is a novel that will have interested until the very end with a not so happy ending as with other Holocaust books tell the story of survivors. This book tells the story of a child that didn't survive the Holocaust. If you are interested in how people hid in the Holocaust I would suggest reading this book. If you are also interested in genocide then YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK.

The book is good for people who like to read tragedies and historical books. This book is for people who like to learn from history's past and I recommend this book to everyone. This book can be read to any audience 13+.