Anne Frank Thesis

Anne Frank
Introduction:
Anne Frank lived in one of the most horrific times the world had seen, known as the Holocaust. With her courageous action and will to live, she pulled through and hid from the Nazis. The two years she lived in the annex leading up to her arrest (“Anne Frank”).

1. Although hundreds of thousands of children perished during the Holocaust because of the faith they were born into, Anne Frank has become the most famous (Schmittroth and Rosteck 121).

Thesis Statement: Anne Frank’s diary made the horrific event, Holocaust real for people by revealing a perceptive but regular teenager who would become perhaps one of Hitler’s best-known victim of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic,
Frank and her diary, which chronicles her experience hiding from the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi for short) and records the anxieties of an adolescent girl, have become symbols to the world of all hope and innocence that was lost during the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign (Schomittroth and Rosteck 121).

Life before the war:

The family had a comfortable, prosperous life in Frankfurt, Germany. Where Otto Frank headed the banking business that had been in his family for generations (Schmittroth and Rosteck 122). Both worried that the family would be in danger of the laws that were being initiated towards the Jews, the Franks decide to move to Amsterdam (Emigration Plans”). Otto and Edith Frank had to find means to escape Germany. In early March 1933 they reach a decision: through his brother-in-law, Erich Elias (his sister Helene’s husband) Otto is given an opportunity to set up a company in the Netherlands (“Emigration Plans”).

Significant people, Events, Artifacts:
In the annex the Franks were joined by another family, a Jewish couple Frank called Hermann and Petronella van Daan and their teenage son Peter, and Jewish dentist named Albert Dussel (these were not their real names) (“People of the
Seeing how it is the only thing Otto has to remember his daughter with, Miep had given it to Otto. Otto then later had published the diary and knew that it was what Anne wanted (“The diary is published”). Anne had always talked about how she wanted to live on even after she is dead. Her father kept her request. Without the publication of her diary, the story and struggle of the Frank family might have never been known. The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. Holocaust Remembrance Day is Thursday, April 19, 2012 (Days of Remembrance).
Since 1982, the Museum has organized and led the national Days of Remembrance ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, with Holocaust survivors, liberators, members of Congress, White House officials, the diplomatic corps, and community leaders in attendance (Days of Remembrance).