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Summary: The Attic Life
Review: This book gives a strong look into the past when the Nazis were taking over Germany in 1940. I would recommened this book to people who want to know what life was like for Jewish people during WWII when they were hiding. It also is informal about the horrible torture that the Jewish went through of they were caught
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Summary: A Young Girl and the her Experiences During the Holocaust
Review: The intimate diary Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, published several years after Anne Frank's death, is a candid recount of the personal experiences Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, went through during the Holocaust. Confiding in Kitty, her diary, Anne Frank has detailed descriptions of her living situation and emotional state while living in hiding. Throughout the diary, Anne Frank explains the hardships she encounters because she is Jewish and how her life has changed because of the Nazis' genocide against Jews. As a result of her experience in hiding, Anne Frank is able to understand her relationships with those around her and evaluate herself. This book is of tremendous historical importance, as through the words of a young girl those lost during the Holocaust are remembered.
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Summary: Anne Frank
Review: Have you ever been hiding to sane you life? In the diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank's real diary the Franks, Vaan Danns, and Dussel were. The Germans hate for Jew grew, and grew during the thirties and forties. The Nazi leader, Aldof Hitler ordered the extermination of all Jews. Anne's parents decided to survive they must hide. Some nights guns could be heard. Other nights bombs. One dark night is complete secrecy, Dussel joined the franks and Vaan Danns. Since Dussel was a dentists he decides to examine everyones mouth. While checking Mrs. Vaan Dann, he finds a small hole. When he pricks it she leaps in pain, and starts running around, tool still in her mouth. She is running around screaming "Get it out! Get it out!. No one can stop laughing. Finally it falls to the floor. A few weeks later a burglar comes and steals a movis projector. With that gone everyone is bored. The one night a warehouse worker turns them in for 5 guldens each. That is about $1.40 each. All eight are sent to Naiz death camps. To find out who surivies you must read "The Diary of Anne Frank." would you survive? I urge you to read "The Diary of anne Frank."
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Summary: This is not just a book, but an important piece of history.
Review: It doesn't surprise me that there are so many bad reviews for this book...However, many people don't understand the signifigance of it. I first read it when I was in eighth grade as a class project and hated every minute of it. A couple of months ago I re-read it and for the first time was able to understand that while it isn't much of an entertaining book, it's historical importance is immeasurable. Unlike most books written on the Holocaust, this is written while it is taken place. You are allowed into the everyday life of two Jewish families while they are in hiding...Anne expresses her thoughts and emotions quite well considering her age and the fact that she wasn't an author. In my opinion, anyone interested in the Holocaust should add this book to their collection.
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Summary: A Touching Story
Review: I am a 13 year old girl who had to read this book as an assignment for school in 7th grade. I thought that is was a sad yet very interesting book written by a girl who was affraid and scared , who had no idea what was going to happen to her. I was touched, but that is not even the word to describe I felt about this book in general. The way she deals with life and how she approaches life itself is so interesting and amaziing. After reading the book, I began to relise that she wanted to do so much with her life, but was only days within reaching it or trying to start beginning it. It was destrubing how people could treat people that way with no compassion at all. And all because they were Jewish. I learned so much from this book: on how life in that time and place went and that not just people being persicuted were scared but the people around them and the ones who weren't even in the country could feel their pain. I would recomend this book to young readers who want to learn and who enjoy diaries in general. I recomend this book to all people no matter how old they are.
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Summary: There, but for the grace of God, go I
Review: I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Germany and Austria for two weeks (I just got back two days ago, in fact), and one of the most poignant memories was my trip to KLB, or Konzentration Lager Buchenwald. Better known simply as Buchenwald, it was a labor camp filled primarily with political prisoners, Gypsies, Jews, homosexuals and other "untermenschen", distinguishing it from the death camps of Auschwitz and Dachau. Despite it's nature as a "mere" labor camp, thousands died there and were incenerated in the specially constructed crematorium there (which, ironically enough, was placed in viewing distance of the specially contructed zoo and pleasure zone built for the officers' families). Walking through those silent halls and down the treaded paths of history, I was struck for the first time in my life of the awful truth that was the Holocaust - not simply that 6 million Jews were eradicated, along with millions of others. 6 million is simply a number, "full of sound and fury," but also "signifying nothing." To understand the Holocaust (if one can understand such a thing at all), you simply have to look into the cell of a soon to be dead prisoner; to stand in the mustering ground of the prisoners' barracks and feel the hard gravel crunch beneath your feet; to peer into the terrifyingly etched interior of a human oven and let your mind try to wander its way through it all; to imagine, at the end of all other imaginings, what it must've felt like to live HERE. Not 6 million. Just you. Or someone you love. THAT'S why Anne Frank and her diary will live on. Not because it' s a well written example of literary prowess. Not because it has a magnificent plot. Not because it has lasting value as a work of literature. It will live on because it's the voice of so many people who went voiceless, who went into the night, into the dark, to be shot from behind or in front, blindfolded or eyes open, gassed in sterile shower rooms or tortured to death in the name of "science." I've read some of the reviews here, and the majority of those who gave this book anything less than five stars usually point to the diary's defecincies in the "interesting" section. Time and time again, that's exactly why I found this book to be so engrossing - whatever faults it has comes from the writer not being a writer! She was a girl, on verge of her flowering into womanhood, full of the hopes and dreams and fears we all are at that age. Whatever picture this book paints is one of her, to remind us not only of who she was and that she was real but also to remind us of those 6 million (and more, so many more, in those ghastly 6 years of death) silent voices. The trip to Buchenwald was not totally disenheartening. In the middle of the mustering grounds is a small marker, maybe 4 feet by 4 feet, surrounding by a small collection of flowers and cards. It's made entirely of a steely gray metal, and in the middle of it is a small square with words on it: Albaner, Algerier, Andarraner, Argentinier, Agypter, Belgier, Baenier.... These are the German names of all the nationalities of all the people who died in World War II. They comprise 60 different nationalities. At the bottom is written K.L.B. But the most spectacular thing happened when I touched the plaque - it was warm. It's kept heated, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, in the depths of winter or in the middle of Germany's summer season, in the memory of all those who died. Our tour guide explained it to me, in his accented English: "It stands for the warmth of those who have passed, the life. They are gone, yet this warmth remains. Life remains." That's why Anne Frank's diary is what it is: life remains because of it.
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Summary: 14 year old speaks out
Review: I speaking as a 14 year old girl hated this book. I was forced to read it in 8th grade and it was a pretty good book but after a while it got very boring. I understand that this a horrific part of our history but come after so long of hearing about the same things a teenager will loose interest. So for those of you who are considering buying this book for enjoyment please reconsider for making your teenager read it.
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Summary: A Great Read
Review: I am shocked to see so many negative comments about this book! I think that the previous (negative)reviewers are forgetting that this was not written to entertain - it is a diary not a novel! People should realize when they read this that they are reading a piece of history. How lucky we are to have this - a diary from the war - it is a treasure! I admire Anne Frank. Some negative reviewers said that there is nothing to admire about Anne - that she only reacted to a situation that she had no choice but to be in. They also stated that she is not a good writer - but I disagree. I admire the way she was able to see herself and to be able to put her thoughts and feelings into words. I tried keeping a diary myself, but found that the only things I put in it were descriptions of my daily events - I was unable to portray any emotion or feelings. I loved this book because it is about the holocaust which is one of the most significant events in history. It is an easy way to learn about the holocaust. Obviously if someone is looking for extensive knowledge regarding this then a diary of a young lady is not the right type of book. But for those of you who would like to learn about it from someone who was there - then this is the book for you. And, for those who have negative comments - try keeping a diary and let's see if yours is interesting enough to be published - let alone considered to be one of the best books of all time!
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Summary: The best book of the millenium!
Review: The Diary of Anne Frank is a very emotional book. I first thought it would be a very boring book, about a girl who shares her life with her diary. It proved me wrong, it is a very good book! It's about a young girl who has to deal with the Holocaust. Her family, another family, and a dentist have to go into hiding from the Nazis when they took over Holland. It tells about how she felt, what problems she dealt with, and how it was to live in it. My favorite part was when Mr.Dussell (the dentist) was counting the potatoes when Mr.Van Daan (part of the other family) tried to steal them. You can read more about it or buy it at amazon.com!
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Summary: Anne Frank
Review: This is an excellent book. You'll learn a lot from it! Enjoy.
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