Anne Frank is a biography about a young Jewish girl who suffered under Hitler’s Power. This story includes real pictures from events described in the book as well as diary entries from Anne Frank. Anne and her family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in hopes of escaping the Nazi party. Anne was very grateful for her “free life” in her new home, away from the Nazis. Though with time, the Nazis flooded the streets of Anne’s new home and made all the Jews register and identify them by wearing gold stars. In order for the family to be safe, especially Anne’s sister who had been called to go to a concentration camp, they had to go into hiding. Two years went by living in hiding and Anne began to write in a diary. The Franks and those living in the Annex were not safe forever, they were discovered and arrested and sent to the concentration camp named Auschwitz-Birkenau. The sites and stench of this camp lead Anne to the realization that she was in a death camp. Separated from her father and eventually her mother, Anne and her sister worked and scarped for food. Diseases struck the camp and affected her sister, soon Anne and her sister died from Typhus. Of the members of Anne’s family, only her father survived the concentration camps. The diary that Anne wrote in during the events was given to her father and published two years later. Anne will never be forgotten and her Birthday, June 12 is known as Anne Frank Day.
I would use this book in my classroom to illustrate to kids how a young girl persevered when everything seemed to go wrong. I would also use this book to introduce heroes around the world.
