Mrs. Frank was born Edith Hollander, and her family came from Aachen, a town on Germany’s western border, near Belgium. Like her husband, she came from the comfortable middle classes and was accustomed to a life of relative ease, with most of the work in the house being done by […]
Read more Character Analysis Mrs. FrankCharacter Analysis Otto Frank
The Franks were an old German Jewish family. Otto Frank’s father, a businessman, came from Landau in the Palatinate (a section of Germany). His mother’s family can be traced in the archives of Frankfurt back to the seventeenth century. Otto Frank was born and grew up in Frankfurt-on-Main and, after […]
Read more Character Analysis Otto FrankCharacter Analysis Margot Frank
Margot was three years older than Anne so was probably more aware of the family’s move from Germany to Holland, which took place when she was seven years old. Margot was a quiet, obedient child, who always kept her clothes neat and clean, unlike her younger sister. She was considered […]
Read more Character Analysis Margot FrankCharacter Analysis Anne Frank
Anne was born on June 12, 1929, three years after her sister, Margot, in the town of Frankfurt-on-Main in Germany. Four years later, in the summer of 1933, the Frank family moved to Holland because Hitler had come to power in Germany and had introduced strict laws which discriminated against […]
Read more Character Analysis Anne FrankSummary and Analysis Epilogue
Of the eight people hiding in the “Secret Annexe,” only one, Anne’s father, survived. All their Dutch “protectors,” or helpers, managed to live through the war, and even Anne’s school friend, Lies, about whom she thought and dreamed, and whom she mentions in the Diary, survived. In his book Anne […]
Read more Summary and Analysis EpilogueSummary and Analysis The Second Year – June 1943-August 1944
Anne’s fourteenth birthday is celebrated with little gifts from the members of her “family in hiding,” as she calls them, and she also receives a poem from her father. This was a German tradition, and as Anne’s family had originally come from Germany, moving to Holland only after the rise […]
Read more Summary and Analysis The Second Year – June 1943-August 1944Summary and Analysis The First Year – June 1942-May 1943
Anne has just turned thirteen, and she lists the birthday presents which she has received, including the diary, which she says is “possibly the nicest of all.” She then gives us a brief description of her personal history, mentioning her birth in Frankfurt, Germany, the family, their emigration to Holland […]
Read more Summary and Analysis The First Year – June 1942-May 1943Character List
The Group in Hiding Anne Frank The thirteen-year-old Jewish girl who writes a diary while she is hiding in Amsterdam from the Nazis during World War II. Margot Frank Anne’s sister; she is three years older than Anne. Otto Frank Anne’s father; he is a Jewish businessman who left Germany […]
Read more Character ListAbout The Diary of Anne Frank
Introduction “… ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered … yet in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” — Anne Frank, July 15, 1944 Anne Frank’s Diary is not a novel or a […]
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