Why Anne Frank is Important

Why Anne Frank is Important

By Mila Lasry

About the Journal

- Anne Frank was a German Jewish teenager - She lived most of her life in the Netherlands during the holocaust - She decided to write all her feelings and thoughts down- The diary gave historians a lot of information about the holocaust - It showed how a young teenager felt about it and how the everyday life of a family in hiding went - Anne tells some normal stories about her day, that makes the reader able to relate to her more and to understand what she’s going through - Appeals to younger audience

“Today I have nothing but dismal and depressing news to report. Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they’re sending all the Jews. Miep told us about someone who’d managed to escape from there. It must be terrible in Westerbork. The people get almost nothing to eat, much less to drink, as water is available only one hour a day, and there’s only one toilet and sink for several thousand people.”

Extract from the Diary

October 9th 1942, Anne Frank's Diary

By Mila Lasry, 4B8