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THE DIARY OF
A YOUNG GIRL BY ANNE FRANK

EDGAR MARTÍNEZ BRÚ

1st BATXILLERAT 2008 – 2009
IES JOAN BRUDIEU
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

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INDEX
INTRODUCTION 2 -3
LITERARY AND 4–6
CULTURAL ANALYSIS
HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL 7–9
CONTEXT
THE NETHERLANDS 10 – 11
AMSTERDAM AND 12
ROTTERDAM
JEW’S CULTURE AND 13 – 15
TRADITION
PERSONAL OPINION 16 – 17
ABOUT A PASSAGE OF
THE NOVEL
CONCLUSION 18
WEBGRAPHY AND 19 - 21
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Anne Frank was a young girl who
was born in a Jewish family.

Because of the Jew’s persecution

by the Germans, they had to
immigrate to Amsterdam, in
Holland.

Finally, the Germans also took

Amsterdam’s power so Anne’s
family had to hide inside the
Secret Annexe.

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INTRODUCTION
Anne’s family finally died in
concentration camps

Otto Frank, Anne’s father, was

the only person who survived.
Some years later, he was the
person who published Anne’s
Diary.
Nowadays, Anne’s Frank diary
has become a really important
testimony of the Second World
War and especially of the Jews
persecution

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LITERARY AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS
On Anne’s 13th birthday she
received a special gift from her
father: her diary.
She wrote her thoughts to Kitty,
which is how she called her diary.

In the first few pages she only

talks about the problems all A piece of Anne’s Frank diary
teenagers have in their daily life.

But then, once she went to live to

the Secret Annexe her diary Bookcase hiding
the Secret Annexe
became a testimony of the
horrors that Jewish suffered
during the German occupation.
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LITERARY AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Anne’s diary ends suddenly when

she and everyone else living in
the Secret Annexe were caught
and sent to their deaths in
concentration camps.

Jews being taken to a

concentration camp

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LITERARY AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan Peter van Daan

The whole family: Anne Frank,

Otto Frank, Margot Frank
and Edith Holländer

(From the left to the right: Miep Gies,

Johannes Kleiman,
Otto Frank, Victor Kugler and Bep Voskuijl)
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HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30
April 1945) was a German
politician and soldier
In his meetings Hitler defended
the feeling of national pride

Adolf Hitler became the leader of

Germany in 1933

The Second World War started

with the invasion of Poland by
the German army
the Netherlands

Adolf Hitler in one of

his massive meetings
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HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT
After a heavy bombing, the
Netherlands started being under
the control of Nazi power.

The military regime established a

wide number of measures against
the Jews
Most Jews from Holland were
sent to Westerbork Camp after
being arrested Rotterdam after being bombed
Extermination camps were built
by the Nazi Germany for the
systematic killing of millions of
people
Victim’s corpses were usually
cremated or buried in mass
graves
German army entering
to Amsterdam
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HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT
Jews being
transported
to an
extermination
camp

Yellow star that Jewish

had to wear

Crematorium oven
from Auschwitz

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THE NETHERLANDS
The Netherlands is often called
Holland, which is formally
incorrect as North and South
Holland are merely two of its
twelve provinces.
It is bordered by the North Sea to
the north and west, Belgium to
the south and Germany to the
east
The Netherlands has a
prosperous and open economy
based on food-pocessing,
chemicals, petroleum refining
and electrical machinery

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THE NETHERLANDS
The Netherlands is famous for its
dikes to keep water away from
the land because a big portion of
it is under the sea level. In fact it
is considered the safest levee
system in the world.

The tulip has come to be a loved

symbol of the Netherlands. Many
tourists visit the country just to
see the brightCOMENIUS
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AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM
Amsterdam is the capital and
largest city of the Netherlands
This city is known all over the world for the canals

Nowadays there are more than

100
Kilometres of canals in
Amsterdam. In fact it is known as
the Venice of the North

Rotterdam is the second largest

city in the country.
This city is especially important
for its port, which is the biggest
in Europe and the sixth-largest
container port all over the world

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JEW’S CULTURE AND TRADITION
Judaism guides its adherents in
both practice and belief, so that
it has been called not only a
religion, but also a “way of life”
Judaism has been influenced by The star of
trends in Christian, Muslim and David – symbol
secular philosophy. of Jewish identity

The Jewish house of prayer is the synagogue

As in other cultures and religions,
Jews have their own celebrations.
Traditional Jewish holidays
celebrate central themes in the
relationships between God and
the world, such as creation,
revelation and redemption.
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JEW’S CULTURE AND TRADITION
Jews have sought to integrate
into the dominant culture of the
countries in which they have
lived adopting typical festivities
and traditions
Language and land are intricately
connected. For most of their
history, Jews have been
multilingual.
Hebrew is the language of the
Bible, the main language of
Jewish liturgy

Jewish celebration

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Hebrew alphabet
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Judaism is the oldest and
smallest of the three
monotheistic religions in the
world.
There are 14.5 million of Jews approximately all
over the world.
The holiest place for Jews is the Western Wall.
According to the Hebrew
calendar we are in the year 5767.

Famous people such as Albert

Einstein, Karl Marx or Sigmund
Freud were Jews

The Western Wall

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 PERSONAL OPINION ABOUT A PASSAGE
OF THE NOVEL
my opinion the most representative fragments in the whole novel are tw
ecific days: Tuesday, 29 September 1942 and Thursday, 1 October 1942
hink these two days can be considered as a summary of the main idea o
ne’s diary.
TUESDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER
1942

“Try to imagine this. We haven’t

got a bathroom, so we all take
our water away to wash in
different
Anne andplaces!”
the rest of the people
who lived there had to share the
same space all the day with the
same people. With this condition,
all these people had to live
without privacy.
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The darkness inside
the Secret Annexe
So in conclusion, this
paragraph tells us about the
difficulty of trying to have a
normal life in a really
reduced space and with the
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the year.
 THURSDAY, 1 OCTOBER
1942
In this second entry, we can
realise the fright that was
present in their daily life. With
the Nazi’s invasion all Jews were
afraid of being taken to
concentration or extermination
They had to listen how planes
camps.
were bombing constantly their
city. They knew that every day a
lot of Jews were taken away from
their houses and they were afraid Jew families being arrested
to be the next.
Because of that fright, people was
really nervous at anytime of the
day and it caused a lot of
arguments and disagreements
which made the life together more
Nazi soldiers patrolling the streets difficult.
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 CONCLUSION
After having spent a lot of time studying the Second World
War, the Jew’s persecution and Anne’s Frank diary I have
to say that I’m really proud of what I have done.
I think that reading a book like that, which was written by
a real person who really suffered the negative effects of
the Jew persecution.
It is shocking to read Anne’s history and imagine what
would you do in the same situation.
But she doesn’t only talk about politics. She talks about a
difficult daily life and about the fright that most people felt
because of the Germans. She also talks about the difficult
relationship with people who share the same space with
you day after day. But not everything is negative. She also
makes reference to the hope of freedom that everybody
had.
So “The Diary of a Young Girl” is a book that I really
recommend to everybody. Sometimes to comprehend the
world’s history, it is not necessary to study it. It’s
interesting to read a testimony novel like this one.
I have really enjoyed the novel and I would read it again.
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sure it will leave no one indifferent.
 WEBGRAPHY
Historical and social context: The Netherlands and Amsterdam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neth
d erlands
_War_II http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0
http://www.secondworldwar.co.u107824.html
k/ http://science.howstuffworks.com
http://www.thehollandring.com/ /levee2.htm
ww2.shtml http://www.holland.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
History_of_the_Netherlands
_(1939-1945)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.c
o.uk
/GERhitler.htm
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 WEBGRAPHY
Jew’s culture and tradition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judai
sm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewis
h_culture
http://www.jewish.com/
http://www.myjewishlearning.co
m/culture/AboutJewishCulture.ht
Literary and cultural analysis
m http://www.enotes.com/anne-
frank
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/d
af/SUM.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary
_of_a_Young_Girl
http://www.annefrank.org/conten
t .asp?pid=1&lid=4

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY
Frank, Anne. The Diary of a
Young Girl, Penguin Readers,
Level 4, Intermediate. Harlow
England, Pearson Education
Limited, 2008.

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