Ana Frank's diary

Published in 1947, Ana Frank's diarycollects the experiences of Anne Frank during the years 1942 and 1944, time that she spent in hiding from the Nazis with her German family of Jewish origin in the city of Amsterdam. It is an autobiographical story, written in her handwriting. In a PROFESSOR it seems to us a great way to know first-hand the events that occurred during the World War II so for you to begin to place yourself more in this diary we have prepared a lesson for you with a summary of

Before starting with the summary of Ana Frank's diary It is important that we briefly know the history of its protagonist and her family. Anna Frank, the author, was born in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) in 1929 with his parents and his sister, Margot, who is three years older. In Germany, things gradually got worse, there was little work and a lot of poverty. The dictator Adolf hitler it was gaining more and more followers and therefore also growing hatred of Jews like Anne Frank's family. Given this situation,

Otto, An's fathera, decide that everyone should move to Amsterdam to start a new life. They move and the father opens a business dedicated to the trade of pectin, a substance that is used to prepare jam.

Time passes and Ana learns to adapt: she becomes more and more loose with the language, she makes new friends and goes to school. Otto adds to his business the sale of spices and herbs since at first he does not seem to be doing all that well financially, and thanks to this, his income increases.

September 1, 1939, when Ana is only 10 years old, the Nazi Germany invades Poland and the Second World War begins. Little by little, in 1940, Hitler also invaded the Netherlands. The occupants begin to introduce regulations and different laws that make life increasingly difficult for Jews in the country. Among other issues, culture is forbidden for them. They cannot go out to the movies, to the shops or to the park. Ana's father begins to lose control of the company: the Jews can no longer be owners and Ana, she must start going to a school only for Jewish children.

In this way, little by little, the Nazis advance more and more. Regulations do not stop increasing for Jews until a day comes when Ana's sister, Margot, receives a German notification promising her work. Her parents distrust and decide, immediately, to hide. In the year 1942, Ana's father had started to build a hiding place for what could happen in the back of the house from her company, so with the help of some friends, the family hides and later takes in four people more. Thus, Anne Frank's family goes on to try to survive in hiding.

We begin the summary of Ana Frank's diary. For her birthday, Ana receives a diary as a gift. In it, in the time they spend in hiding, he begins to write everything that happens to her and her family as well as her thoughts. Also, she had always wanted to be a writer, so she begins to write short stories and a novel as well as quotes that she copies from the books she reads. In this way, the writing becomes the Ana's main ally.

In the first place, Ana narrates the changes that the Nazi Germans were introducing in the country for the Jews, feeling more and more she alone and scared. She feels that her family does not complement her absence of friends and her happy past, she talks a lot about her mother, which I do not quite understand and with which you do not quite get along. Ana continues to read and learn languages, her writing improves more and more and she begins to describe the people around her (8 in total, hiding in the house) as well as the situations that occurred. She describes joy for the holidays and fear of thieves as well as constant quarrels with her mother and with another of the inhabitants: Dussel, who she considers to be treating him like a girl.

Early 1944, Ana begins to discover love and sexuality and gets closer to Peter Van Daan, another child who lives with them, looking for a friendship but beginning to fall in love. All these thoughts related to love are also manifested in her diary. The two begin to have more and more complicity and to retire to the attic to talk together and get to know each other better. After a while and with more complicity, Ana understands that Peter has a weak character and that what she really feels is just a friendship.

In this other lesson we will discover who are the main and secondary characters of Ana Frank's diary.

Ana continues writing until the end of year 1944: on August 4 the Nazi officers discover the family and they arrest them. It is not known for sure what was the reason for the police raid but Ana is taken to prison in Amsterdam and later she deported to Auschwitz. Luckily, someone manages to save Ana's diaries and they are not confiscated.

Upon arriving at the concentration camp, after a horrible selection of valid people to work or sick and weak who do not serve, they send Ana to the concentration camp for women with her sister and her mother. Otto is sent to a men's camp. At the beginning of November, Ana was transferred to another concentration camp with her sister: a Bergen - Belsen. The conditions in this place are terrible and both Ana and her sister contract typhoid fever. In 1945, both died.

Of all the family, only Otto survives the war. He is freed by the Russians in the Auschwitz concentration camp and manages to return to the Netherlands where he finds her daughter's diary and decides, in honor of her and her desire to be a writer, to finally publish it on June 25, 1947.