Anne Frank: the biography by Melissa Muller was a book that really made me think a lot about the world we live in, about humanity, and the sufferings people have to go through. I have always been really interested in World War II because of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a very devastating and horrible event in the world history. It is extremely sad for me to think of the many horrible tortures and atrocities mainly Jews had to go through in the concentration camps. They were required to work while being almost starved because the food wasn't enough. They were put in very crowded areas where a lot of them would get sick because of the unhygienic spaces. They were humiliated and put down. They were robbed from all of their belongings and all of their valuables. The families were separated and some were never able to see each other again. Something that I found extremely sad in this book, was how Anne Frank, and her sister, died a few weeks before the British troop arrived at their concentration camp to liberate them. I thought it was such a miracle how her father, Otto Frank, was able to survive. On a letter he wrote to his mother he said, "On the 26th, the SS took us outside to murder us, but they were ordered away before they could do so--we were saved by a miracle." I do believe that he was saved by a miracle because had it not been for the Russian soldiers who came, he would have been dead by now. This book was really good at telling Anne Frank's complete biography. It also said a lot of information about her at the concentration camps, which is something that you don't read in her diary because when she was taken to a concentration camp she stopped writing in her diary because she didn't have it. It also includes information about her family, friends, and what happened after her dad was liberated. I really learned a lot of information about Anne Frank that I didn't know from just reading her diary.
A quote that really struck me from the book was, "No executions took place in the hopelessly overcrowded camp, but ten of thousands died anyway. Weakened by hunger and thirst, they died slow, agonizing deaths from infectious diseases--dysentery, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and typhus. Describing after the war the part of the part of the camp where Anne and Margot had been held, a British army captain, Andrew Peters, wrote of the horrendous conditions, of six hundred people crowded into barracks for sixty, of corpses human excrement, and filth strewn everywhere. The prisoners, in rags crawling with lice, had been beaten down to the level of animals." It is just horrible to think that human beings where able to do these such horrible things to other human beings. This book made me see how bad a person can be but also how good someone can be, like Miep Gies. She was a friend of the Frank family, and she risked her life in order to keep the Frank family safe. In her note in the book she says, "To my great and abiding sorrow, I was not able to save Anne's life. But I was able to help her live two years longer. In those two years she wrote the diary that gives hope to people all over the world and calls for understanding and tolerance....Through her diary Anne really does live on. She stands for the triumph of the spirit over evil and death."
A quote that really struck me from the book was, "No executions took place in the hopelessly overcrowded camp, but ten of thousands died anyway. Weakened by hunger and thirst, they died slow, agonizing deaths from infectious diseases--dysentery, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and typhus. Describing after the war the part of the part of the camp where Anne and Margot had been held, a British army captain, Andrew Peters, wrote of the horrendous conditions, of six hundred people crowded into barracks for sixty, of corpses human excrement, and filth strewn everywhere. The prisoners, in rags crawling with lice, had been beaten down to the level of animals." It is just horrible to think that human beings where able to do these such horrible things to other human beings. This book made me see how bad a person can be but also how good someone can be, like Miep Gies. She was a friend of the Frank family, and she risked her life in order to keep the Frank family safe. In her note in the book she says, "To my great and abiding sorrow, I was not able to save Anne's life. But I was able to help her live two years longer. In those two years she wrote the diary that gives hope to people all over the world and calls for understanding and tolerance....Through her diary Anne really does live on. She stands for the triumph of the spirit over evil and death."
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