Currently, several historians are focusing on the review of documents that inform the extent of the damage, deaths and torture carried out by the Nazi holocaust. For some, the numbers released would not be consistent to the very material condition that the Nazi concentration camps would have for execute the jews and the other persecuted of the Nazi regime.
Parallel to this discussion, we see that the numbers of Nazi terror do not matter when we are faced with the testimony of a young Jewish woman named Anneliese Marie Frank. In December 1933, she and her family were forced to leave Germany with the rise of adolf hitler and its nature policies anti-Semitic. Seeking help from friends, Anne Frank's family moved to the Dutch town of Amsterdam.
With the burst of Second World War, the persecution of the Jews became even more severe and forced Anne and her family to live cloistered in a secret annex of the house of the Dutch friends who took them in. Living behind a shelf, Anne bent over writing a
In the meantime, Otto Frank, Anne's father, was looking for ways to get out of Netherlands and get a visa for a country on the American continent. Initially, contacted Nathan Strauss Jr., a college friend who was trying to make a passport for the U.S. Unfortunately, due to bureaucratic requirements and the problem of Nazi espionage, the american government refuted the welcome of the Frank family.
There was also one last attempt to seek asylum in Cuba, but that did not materialize with success either. In day August 1, 1944, Anne Frank produced the last text from her diary. Three days later, her family was arrested for the gestapo (Nazi secret police) and sent to concentration camps. In March 1945, the young woman ended up dying as a result of the contraction of typhoid fever.
With the end of the war, Otto Frank returned to Holland in hopes of finding his family. However, she realized that everyone was killed by the action of the Nazis. Finally, she came into contact with her daughter's writings and was pleasantly surprised to notice the richness found in the perspective that Anne had built in those texts surrounded by the difficulties of era. In June 25, 1947, O Anne Frank Diary turned into a book and, until today, had more than 300 million of copies sold.
By Rainer Sousa
Master in History
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Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
SOUSA, Rainer Gonçalves. "Anne Frank's diary"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/guerras/o-diario-anne-frank.htm. Accessed on July 27, 2021.
