my nonfiction book report

The diary of Anne frank

The story of the Frank family began in Germany in the 1920's when Otto and Edith Frank led a happy life with the births of their daughters Margot and Anne. She and her older sister Margot, frequently spent their summer in Germany, with their grandmother. In 1933, in response to the anti-Jewish decrees Otto Frank opened a branch of his company, in Amsterdam and began planning to bring his family there.

The Frank family finally moved into a house in southern Amsterdam and Anne began to attend the nearby Montessori school. Anne made many friends and was an exceptional student.The family's feelings of security collapsed, however, when in 1940, Aolf Hitler and his troops conquered Holland and the freedom of the Jews began to be severely restricted. Otto Frank spent the year preparing a hiding place.

On her 13Th birthday in Anne received a gift from her parents, it was a diary.She immediately began writing her intimate thoughts and musings. A few short weeks later, however, Margot received a notice from the Nazi SS to report for work detail at a labor camp. On July 5Th, 1942, Anne and the Frank family moved to the "Secret hiding place".When the thirteen-year-old and her family went into hiding from the Nazis, the diary went with her.

What she recorded in the diary were in many ways, the ordinary thoughts and feelings of a teenage girl. But she was a teenage girl living under extraordinary circumstances.Eight people eventually came to live in the secret annex. There were the four members of the Frank family, Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Margot and Anne.Anne's famous diary captured two years of hiding in the attic above the store, but it ended on August 4, 1944.

When their hiding place was betrayed all those who lived there were arrested by the Nazis and deported to camps.As the Gestapo men searched the annex for valuables such as money, the briefcase in which Anne kept her writings was opened and the papers were scattered on the floor.Little did these men realize the eventual value of these materials.

A few weeks later, as the Allies began retaking Holland, the inhabitants of the camp were later moved to other camps.Otto Frank was separated from his family once again and also Otto frank was the only one of the original 8 residents of the secret hiding spot to survive. Van Pels died in the gas chambers and Pfeffer died at the camp in Germany.

Anne and Margot ultimately ended up in the bergen -belson camp in Germany after evacuated from the camp diseases swept through the camp's and Margot, developed typhus and died. A few days later, Anne herself got sick by the disease and a few weeks at age 15 she died.I would definitely recommend this book to others.

typhus=a type of disease that is caused by body lice and is marked by high fever.