From the diary of anne frank summary

When does Anne get her diary? On 12 June 1942, Anne was given a diary for her thirteenth birthday. It was something she really wanted. Her parents let her to pick one out herself in a bookshop. When does Anne start writing? On her birthday, Anne only wrote that she hoped that she would be able to entrust everything to her diary and that it would be a great support. The actual writing started two days after her birthday, on 14 June 1942. In which language does Anne write? Anne wrote in Dutch. On occasion, she used German or English words. Anne addresses her diary letters to Kitty. Who was Kitty? Kitty was the fictional character Anne eventually addressed all her diary letters to. The name Kitty came from a series of books Anne had read, by Dutch author Cissy van Marxveldt. These books were about Joop, a girl who had all kinds of adventures with her group of friends. One of the books from this series was partly written in the form of letters. This inspired Anne to do the same: from 21 September 1942 onwards, she pretended to send letters to Joop’s circle of friends. Kitty Francken was one of the characters from that group. Anne preferred to write to 'her'. The Kitty character in the Cissy van Marxveldt books was ‘bright', cheerful, and funny. And so, Kitty became the imaginary friend Anne confided in. So, who is 'Dear Kitty'? What happens when Anne has filled up the diary she had been given? Anne took her diary with her when she went into hiding. It was one of the first item...

The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play Summary and Study Guide Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of “The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play” by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. The Diary of It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Easter Parade (1948), and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). Despite their three previous forays into playwriting for the Broadway stage, the pair’s penchant for comedy made them an unlikely choice to dramatize Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, a first-hand account of a young Jewish teen living in hiding during the Holocaust that is at times funny, poignant, and ultimately tragic. Goodrich and Hackett’s play adaptation, which is based on both the diary and Otto Frank’s account of recovering the diary after the war, was immensely successful, garnering a Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1956. It was adapted into a film in 1959. The play opens in Amsterdam on July 6, 1942. Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank, her sister Margot, and her parents, Otto and Edith Frank, arrive in the Secret Annex, a hidden space in the building that houses Mr. Frank’s business. They are Jewish, Amsterdam has been under Nazi occupation for two years, and they plan to hide in the Annex until the war ends with the help of Mr. Frank’s business par...

Top Anne Frank shared with the world, a first-hand account of the grave injustice Jews were subjected to under the rule of Adolf Hitler. On her 93rd birth anniversary, we look back at her life Besides writing about her life at the secret annex, she also noted down her thoughts and feelings on crushes, her argument with her mother or sister and much more. Photo Courtesy: AFP To date, Anne Frank is remembered with great admiration due to her contribution in recording one of the most prominent times in history. Born on June 12, 1929, in the German city of Frankfurt am Main, Frank was a young Jewish girl. She was born to Otto and Edith Frank and had an elder sister, Margot. Frank was born during the time when Germany was facing severe unemployment and poverty issues. It was also the time when Adolf Hitler and his party were growing strong and gaining a large number of supporters. Hitler is popular for instigating hate against the Jews and subjecting them to gruesome injustices. He blamed them for all the problems in the country. Life of Anne Frank Given the rising hatred against the Jews and poor economic conditions, the Frank family moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Here, Frank’s father founded a company that traded in pectin, a gelling agent for making jam. After moving here, Frank felt at home. Besides making new friends and learning their language, she also started attending a Dutch school near her home. ADVERTISEMENT Things went downhill for 10-year-old Frank in 1940 when ...

Anne Frank was born in 1929 to a well-to-do family in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family immigrated to Holland in 1933, spurred by the violent anti-Semitism of the Nazi Party that had taken power in Germany. Anne and her older sister led a typical upper-middle-class life until the Germans took control of the Netherlands in 1940. Anne received her now-famous diary as a birthday gift in 1942, and her family was forced to go into hiding in the Secret Annex three weeks later. After hiding for over two years, the family was betrayed to the SS, their hiding spot discovered. Anne and her sister Margot were eventually taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both succumbed to malnutrition and typhus in early March 1945 – roughly one month before the camp was freed by the Allies. Anne Frank's diary describes one girl's experience of World War II and the Holocaust—the Nazi's effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe, largely by sending the Jews to concentration camps where they were worked to death, or worked to near death and then killed. By the end of World War II, Adolf Hitler had systematically murdered six million Jews, as well as millions of gypsies, Communists, homosexuals, and other people the Nazis considered undesirable. The Germans invaded and conquered the Netherlands relatively early in the war, in May of 1940, and from then began to tighten their grip over the country, including depriving Jews of their former rights and deporting Jews to concentration camps...

January 13th. The war rages on. Anne observes that families are being torn apart as the Nazis draft young Dutch men to fight in the German army, and as they send more and more Jews to concentration camps. Anne again reflects that her family is quite lucky to have food and shelter while many (Jews and Christians alike) go hungry. January 30th. Anne is at her wits' end. "I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it," she writes. Anne is fed up with her treatment by the other Annex dwellers, who often tease her or outright criticize her behavior. "I wish I could ask God to give me another personality," she writes, "one that doesn't antagonize everyone." February 5th. Tensions in the Secret Annex are still running high. Anne is being scolded, once again, for her chatty, rambunctious nature. The adults around her often tell her to be more like Margot. The adults bicker with each other at mealtimes – Mrs. van Daan criticizes Margot's scant appetite, which elicits a catty response from Mrs. Frank. February 27th. The Annex dwellers strive to keep their hopes up regarding the war – Mr. Frank is hopeful for an imminent Allied invasion of German territories. Meanwhile, Mr. Kugler and Mr. Kleiman's landlord has sold their building (the one containing Opekta's offices, warehouses, and the Secret Annex), and Anne is fearful that the new landlord will demand to inspect the mysterious upper floors of the building where the Annex is hidden. On a meta-textual level, it's important to note th...

Summary 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. Anne Frank begins her diary with the hope that she will be able to reveal everything to it, since she feels that she has never truly been able to confide in anyone. She tells the story of how she acquired the diary on Friday, June 12, her thirteenth birthday. Anne wakes up at six in the morning and waits until seven to open her presents. One of the presents is the new diary. Afterward, Anne’s friend Hanneli picks her up for school. Anne goes to gym with the other students, although she is not able to participate because her shoulders and hips dislocate too easily. She returns home at five in the afternoon. She describes several of her friends—Hanneli, Sanne, and Jacqueline—whom she has met at the Jewish Lyceum, the local school for Jewish children. Anne writes about her birthday party on Sunday and continues to describe her classmates. She believes that “paper is more patient than people” and feels that she does not have any true friends and confidants. She has a loving family and many people she could call friends or admirers, but she cannot confide in any of them. Anne then provides a brief overview of her childhood. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. Her family moved to Holland in 1933 because they were Jewish and her father found a job at a Dutch chemical company. Anne went to a Montessori nu...

Anne Frank (1929-1945), a young Jewish girl, her sister, and her parents moved to the Netherlands from Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power there in 1933 and made life increasingly difficult for Jews. In 1942, Frank and her family went into hiding in a secret apartment behind her father’s business in German-occupied Amsterdam. The Franks were discovered in 1944 and sent to concentration camps; only Anne’s father survived. Anne Frank’s diary of her family’s time in hiding, first published in 1947, has been translated into almost 70 languages and is one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust. Who Was Anne Frank? Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929, to Edith Hollander Frank (1900-45) and Otto Frank (1889-1980), a prosperous businessman. Less than four years later, in January 1933, Did you know? In 1960, the building at Prinsengracht 263, home to the Secret Annex, opened to the public as a museum devoted to the life of Anne Frank. Her original diary is on display there. By the fall of 1933, Otto Frank moved to Amsterdam, where he established a small but successful company that produced a gelling substance used to make jam. After staying behind in Germany with her grandmother in the city of Aachen, Anne joined her parents and sister Margot (1926-45) in the Dutch capital in February 1934. In 1935, Anne started school in Amsterdam and earned a reputation as an energetic, popular girl. In May 1940, the Germa...

On June 12, 1942, Annelies Marie Frank was given a diary for her thirteenth birthday. It was a gift she really wanted and her parents let her pick one out herself. Like all tweens, she must have dawdled before settling on a red-and-white chequered notebook, words from which would go on to become part of one of the most inspiring books in the world. PREMIUM Anne Frank on a Dutch postage stamp. (Shutterstock) The first words she wrote in the diary were telling: “I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.” (Goodreads) Anne and her family had fled Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933 and resettled in the Netherlands. The Germans occupied Amsterdam in May 1940, and two years later began rounding up Jews and deporting them to concentration camps. Amidst the turmoil, Anne lived the life of a regular almost-teen – going to school, hanging out with friends, and learning to navigate life. The first entry in her diary was short; the real confiding starting two days after her birthday. She wrote in Dutch, occasionally using German or English words, and addressed her diary as Kitty. The name was drawn from a series of books by Dutch author Cissy van Marxveldt about Joop, a girl who had adventures with her group of friends, which included the “bright”, “cheerful”, and “funny” Kitty Francken. Things seemed under control to Anne when she wrote to “Dearest Kitt...