Anne Frank was a happy and chatty girl that celebrated her thirteenth birthday on June the twelfth, 1942. As a gift, she got a diary, and there begins the story that shocked the world. She decided to write down her thoughts and feeling in the diary because she did not have a real friend to share them with.
Genre: diary
Time and place: Netherlands, Twelfth of June, 1942. – First of August, 1944
Book Summary
Even though she has 3 years older sister, parents, and relatives, she sometimes feels lonely because nobody understands …show more content…
After 1940 the war gets to the family Frank and all of the other Jews who were standing in Hitler’s way. The Jews became second-class citizens by many laws that stripped them off their rights. They were allowed to shop in specific shops in a specific time, and they could not visit public places like cinemas and theaters. They were ordered to be home at 8, and they had to wear The Star of David on their clothes.
The ninth of July 1942 was the day when Anne’s family had to hide to protect themselves from being taken to the camps were Jews ended up during the World War II. The people who worked with her father helped them find a shelter in a building where they worked and since that day on Anne named her new home ‘’The secret shelter’’.
That same year on 13 August, the family van Daan joined the Franks because they also had no place to go and was in need of a shelter for a while. Their only son Peter came with them, and at the beginning, Anne did not have a particularly high opinion of