The Holocaust, Testimony Of Ana Frank

The Holocaust, testimony of Ana Frank

The Jewish holocaust was an event that happened during World War II from 1939 to the year 1945., It is one of the greatest that has happened in the history of humanity, at the end of World War II the Nazi regime and its collaborators had killed approximately two out of three Jews. Something that many people do not know is that during the Jewish holocaust not only Jews died, but also killed a large number of Romani, officials of the Communist Party and the Soviet State and people with physical and mental disabilities. Ana Frank and her family lived during the Holocaust. 

Ana Frank was a girl who was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, in her family they were only her sister, her mother, her father and she. The religion of her family was Jewish which means that they were in danger living in Germany, the place where this ideology originated against the Jewish race with Adolf Hitler as leader, who years later would cost them life. In January 1933 Hitler came to power in Germany, in this year Ana had only three years and her sister had seven. 

Ana’s father traveled to Amsterdam for work issues in 1933, he worked in a company called Opekta. A year later Ana, her mother and sister moved to Amsterdam with her father since the situation in Germany was very complicated and her lives could be much better in another country. Living in Amsterdam, the life of the Frank family was relatively normal since the problem was concentrated in Germany and still did not cover the Netherlands.

In 1942, the Nazis announced that all the Jews in Holland had to carry at all times a yellow star that had the word Jood, which means Jewish in the center. This measure was a way of separating the Jewish population from the non -Jewish in different countries, and the star that the Jews carried was different in each place. 

In this same year, the Frank family realizes that they could not survive if they were hid. On July 5, 1942 Ana’s sister was summoned to be taken to a workflling in Germany. Her family for no reason would allow her to take her, so on July 6 of the same year, the family moves to an annex above the offices where Ana’s father worked to hide. 

In this same year Ana received as a birthday gift a newspaper to write everything she wanted. She wrote almost every day during the two years in which they lived hidden in the annex on everything that happened from how she learned that she would move, as they lived in there, the rules they had to comply with, etc. Ana’s testimony was written by herself and has great historical value since it allows us to know the situation in which they were forced to live only for being Jews to survive.

In her diary Ana wrote the rules that she and the people hidden in the annex had to follow, some of these rules were: “During the day, we must walk silently and speak in a low voice, so that they do not hear us in the deposit ". “Foreign languages: Whether whatever it is, to spoke in a low voice and in a civilized language; that is to say that the German is excluded. Lessons: a shorthand lesson per week. English, French, mathematics and history at all times ” . Ana, her sister and the son of the other family took classes or lessons within the annex. 

Frank family, Los Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer

With the help of Ana Diario, you can know exactly what the other people who took refuge in the annex, on July 13, 1942, the three -year family arrived, Los Van Pels and on November 17, 1942 Fritz Pfeffer arrived. Ana always wanted to be a writer and because she writes in her diary you can see that she had great talent. Taking into account the danger that everyone involved with the hiding place was ran, she slightly changed the names of all, so that the protectors called Johannes Kleiman and Víctor Kugler in her diary appear as Koofhuis and Kraler. Also, everything written in the newspaper is addressed to the imaginary friend who created Ana called Kitty. 

The Frank family together with the Van Pels family and Mr. Fritz were discovered and arrested in 1944, they also arrested two of the protectors of these families. The protectors were the people who took them food and were the only ones who knew they were hidden there. After being arrested and interrogated, all except the two arrested protectors were sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau field, where men were separated from women and sent to the Auschwitz field and three kilometers from the other. 

On November 1 of the same year, Ana and her sister were sent to another field called Bergen-Belsen, this field was one of extermination. It is not known exactly as Ana lived or what she did during her time in this field since she neither her nor her sister survived. Unlike what many think, Ana died of typhus and not in gas cameras. Ana died in March 1945, six months before the war ended. The only survivor of the Frank family was Ana’s father who published her newspapers and thus made his dream’s dream of being a writer. Ana’s newspapers were stored by one of the family’s protectors that was not arrested. 

conclusion

In conclusion, Ana Frank’s life despite having been short has a great value, not only sentimental, but historical. Ana wrote everything she lived and despite being a girl, she understood what was happening and the value of documenting it. All experiences in Ana’s Diario agree exactly with the historical events and the places where they happened, in addition, the dates fit perfectly with what was historically documented by other sources, in this way you can corroborate the authenticity of their book. His testimony is only one of many who perhaps were not written or published, but certainly gives an idea of ​​how strong and hard it was to live in this time being Jewish. Ana’s diary was published in the original language and then translated into more than 70 languages ​​and is now read by thousands of people around the world.

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