ANNE FRANK

It is hardly possible to imagine the death of six million-plus people. Think of a city where you live. If only it is not Moscow, New York or Tokyo, the number of its residents are likely to be considerably less than six million. Even in other countries or regions may be less than the residents. And still you can not imagine so many people, so many lives and so many deaths. That would be beyond your understanding.

And yet you know Anna Frank. She is familiar to you on a well-known theatrical productions and films. Do you remember the secret hidden in the attic annex in Amsterdam and receiving assistance from friends of her Christian family and her friends, given the Nazis and died in concentration camps. You remember her children′s hopes and fears, her love of a teenager, her anger and contempt in relation to some adults, their ability to write. You certainly honor her memory.

For most people (even before the surprising evidence of Steven Spielberg - the film "Schindler′s List"), Diary of Anne Frank - the only way to understand the personal tragedy of the Holocaust.

She began to keep a diary June 12, 1942 First records belong Peru flippant young girls who cheerfully lists the gifts received on the day of birth. Soon, she said the real reason for their records: it has no really close friends and she wants the diary has become a friend, it will be called Kitty.

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It briefly describes how her father Otto in the thirty-six years, married her mother Edith and silver in 1926, was born in Frankfurt, her elder sister Margot, and a further three years now, and Anna herself. In 1933, the family fled from Nazi persecution in Holland. After the German invasion in 1940, and in this country have been tightened laws against Jews, severely restricting all their activities. Despite the horrors around her, Anna verify your diary gossip about the girl-odnoklassnitsah writes on evaluation tests, the good and bad students.

Sunny day, Anna was sitting on the veranda, leaves without a special interest book. Rang the doorbell, and her life suddenly changed. Esesovtsy issued a warrant for the arrest of her father and family had to flee. The mother warns the family van Pelsov. Van Pels worked with her father. Friends Otto - Christians IPI and her new husband Ian Heath came to pick up some things. Soon, the family came to the office of Otto and climbs the stairs to the simple gray door. During its several rooms, the existence of which is difficult to guess - it was a "secret annex. " A few days later, Frank joined the wife of Wang Pelsy with fifteen son Peter. The latter brings his cat Mushie. Franco and Van Pelsy settle in a new place, hearing on the neighboring streets as trucks roar, uvozyaschie Jews in an unknown direction.

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Anna describes in detail the life in a secret refuge. She and Mr. Van Pels upsetting each other (he prefers Margot). Peter makes boredom, and Anna finds him a fool. Weather beautiful. Van Pelsy quarrel until Francs trying to live in peace. No one dares to move in during the day: someone at the bottom can hear and suspect something. Otto, Anna begins to read at night, Goethe and Schiller. In the midst of the great Teutonic barbarism one generation passes to another great German culture. Anna does not depart from his father.

They all listen to war news on the radio. IAI and other friends - good Samaritans - tell them the terrible history of persecution of Jews. Since the "equally dangerous for the eight that for seven, they have chosen to house one more" lodger "- Friedrich Pfeffera dentist. Anna is forced to divide its komnatenku to quiet dentists that poorly understood and its like nothing is remembered. Despite the emergence of a new and eccentric neighbor, Anna feels "bad" only because it sleeps in security, while her classmates are doomed to an ominous fate.

One night thieves penetrate the building. Anna accurately describes the behavior of fellow asylum. It makes literary license and begins to call himself in his diary Anna Robin. Van Pelsy become Van Daan, Dr. Pfeffer - Dr. Dusselem, and the cat gets the name of Bosch (as the French call the Germans).

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Anna is experimenting with language and dialogue. With the onset of 1943, she notes the contribution of Peter in their overall unenviable position. His parents are terrible quarrel, disputes regarding the sale of fur Manto Mrs. Van Pels and no money. Anna demits ode his pen, accidentally burnt down in the oven. She is deeply repent of those troubles, which may have caused his school girlfriend. Where is she now? Anna prayed that the girl survived the war.

Anna looks in the mirror. Her face changed, her mouth became softer. Only Peter would have noticed it! Politics and news about the forthcoming Allied invasion served with her yearning for spring. In 1944, there are questions about sexuality (why parents do not explain it more clearly to their children?) And wait for a first kiss. And once again penetrate into the building, looters and the police comes to the rotating box, hide a door in an extension. Hides Jews are lucky - they are not.

Anna spoke directly with God. Why is the Jews are treated differently than other people? She still believes in the power of its people, that he will survive, despite the hatred. She also would not cipher, but will work for peace, for the benefit of mankind. Soon the blog entries dropped.

A month after the disembarkation of the Allies in Normandy secret police found an extension. All of its inhabitants, along with two of their friends, the Christians were sent to concentration camps.

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Almost all of August 1944 Franco van Pelsy and Dr. Pfeffer held together in a transit camp for Jews. At that time, Anna and Peter does not depart from each other. On the night of 5 / 6 September, they were taken to the death camp Auschwitz. Men and women once shared. Van Pels was immediately sent to the gas chamber. Pfeffera transferred to another concentration camp, where he soon died. After 1945, his mother Anna died in Birkenau - the women′s concentration camp in the vicinity of Auschwitz. With the approach of the Red Army in large groups of prisoners were sent echelons death in Czechoslovakia and Germany. Mrs. Van Pels died in one of these levels sometime in April or May. Peter died in Mauthausen concentration camp in just three days before the release of prisoners of the U. S. Army. Margot and Anne tomilis in the brutal conditions in the camp of Bergen-Belsen, has not yet died of typhoid in late February or early March. We know that Anna died a few days after Margo.

Otto Frank was the only inhabitants of the secret annex, survived the war. He remained at Auschwitz until its liberation by Russian Jan. 27, 1945 After the war, Otto returned to his business and devoted his life to your youngest daughter, published her diary, which was found in the cache of Anna. He died in 1980 in Switzerland, knowing that Anne′s diary has been translated into dozens of languages and read by millions.

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Diary is a range of compulsory reading in elementary schools all over the world.

It is important not only as a heroic story, but also because it is so well written. Anna sincerity, expressiveness of its language, its ability to effectively and briefly describe their most intimate feelings and thoughts emit its brilliant talent. The familiar to young girls form a personal diary does not diminish her accomplishments.

She asks us to important questions. What sense is it here? Severe pain, anger, sorrow, deep loss, admiration, astonishment, surprise her teenage fantasies, tenderness on her love? We will always respect the courage with which she wrote in constant fear of being discovered. Where was the rest of the world, when someone blow out the brightest spark of humanity? We must never forget her admonition that the most beautiful and the good can be destroyed by a terrible sin of hatred, if not oppose it the most powerful forces. Example Anna should encourage us will never forget that some people can always be selected for destruction, and that with the help of modern technology indifferent too easy to kill countless people.