Anne Frank After May 1940 Essay

War struck Europe because of a man with an ideal of erasing a type of a religious race. Jewish people. On May 10, 1940, the German Army invaded the Netherlands, defeating Dutch forces in just a few days. The Dutch surrendered on May 15, 1940. As the war roared on, a Jewish girl named Anne Frank made her first account on this in her diary on May 1940. According to Biography.com Anne states in her diary “After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the troubles started for the jews.”(Biography. com/Anne Frank/) One of her quotes in her first entry, according to an article called ’Museum Hours’ on the website Holocaustedu.org is “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”(Holocaustedu.org) This quote is a powerful quote because she wanted this to bring hope to others. Even
Frank and Margot and Anne Frank has managed to stay together but Margot and Anne was then sent to a different camp. The camp Bergen-Belsen and died there from the disease called Typhus. Margot died first near the date of her birthday, where she would’ve turned 19. Anne died shortly after her at the age of 15. Otto Frank was the sole survivor when the war ended. He asked around about his daughters and gladly people did recall seeing her but they told him that they haven’t seen them for a while and that was when Otto knew the they were dead.
People remembered Anne as the little girl with pride and hope.
Otto then found Anne’s diary and read it. Then on June 25, 1947, Anne Frank’s Diary was published. Thanks to Otto Frank. He has made his daughter, Anne, a legacy and the Holocaust to be something to remembered. Over the years he has made books about the experience in the secret annex in result of being the sole survivor of the Jews that hid in the