Since I am reading "The Diary of Anne Frank", I decided to take a deeper look at some of the impacts from the Holocaust on Poland. In this book, Anne is in hiding with her family during the second world war. Concentration Camps, like Bergen-Belsen where Anne and her sister died, and Auschwitz where her mother and father were held (Anne and Margot were sent to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz).
Earlier in 2018, Poland established a law that is causing some conflicts on the topic of the Holocaust. Auschwitz was located in Poland. The Polish government claims, it will stop Poland from being insulted and blamed for the Holocaust. In my book Anne speaks of the Holocaust in one of her early entries in 1942 Anne speaks of the camp and tells stories of the camps Miep one of her protectors tells her, " Prominent citizens-innocent people-are thrown into prison to await their fate." (Friday October 9, 1942 diary entry). Poland does not want to take credit for the things that the Nazis did during World War Two. It relates to current day because camps were in Poland, Poland thinks they are being blamed for the Holocaust. When they really are not.
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I am reading The Diary of Anne Frank, It is the diary of a thirteen year old Jewish girl whose family had to go into hiding during the Holocaust. Her father (Otto Frank) published the diary and now people all over the world have the opportunity to see the life of a girl hiding from the Nazis. This was during the holocaust in Amsterdam where Anne and her family went into hiding in the upper levels of a warehouse. This book takes place during the second world war, and the Holocaust. It describes life in hiding over a two year span before (spoiler alert for those who haven't read the book yet) the gestapo found her family and were sent to a camp.
In the background of this book the holocaust is happening, news of someone else being taken away to a concentration camp, news of the Nazis invading another country these events were told to the Frank family connecting the story to World War two and the Holocaust. The Frank and Vann Dan ( other family hiding with them) looked at the situation they were in and hoped they would not get caught like the many Jews that did. Anne hoped the Nazis believed the letter her father sent claiming he was elsewhere worked. The Jews in the Country didn't want to go to concentration camps This book describes exactly what life in hiding was like as a teen during the Holocaust. |
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