Anne Frank
How do we define the personality traits of a hero?
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he·ro [heer-oh]
noun, plural -roes; for 5 also -ros.
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a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.
a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is
regarded as a model
the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.
Classical Mythology .
a. a being of godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity.
b. (in the Homeric period) a warrior-chieftain of special strength, courage, or ability.
c. (in later antiquity) an immortal being; demigod.
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Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hero
How do the setting, conflicts, and antagonists
influence the development of literary heroes?
“Jews are evil and a threat to us, the superior
race. Their lives are worthless and they
should be destroyed,” (Adolf Hitler)
•The Jewish people were forced into two choices: go into hiding to avoid
persecution from Hitler’s rein on Europe or be taken to concentration
camps
•Propaganda played a major role in the [almost] continental hatred for
Jews
“The internal expurgation of the Jewish
spirit is not possible in any platonic
way. For the Jewish spirit as the product
of the Jewish person. Unless we expel
the Jewish people. Unless we expel the
Jewish people soon, they will have
judaized our people within a very short
time.” (Adolf Hitler)
How does a hero reflect his/her particular
culture and society?
• On July 5, 1942 Margot Frank, (Anne’s
sister,) received a notice from the police for her to
report to a labor camp
•Because she failed to respond to the letter, the
entire family was forced into hiding or else they’d
be immediately arrested and deported to
concentration camps and separated from one
another.
“Beginning in 1941, the Germans deported Jews in Germany to the occupied eastern territories. At
first, they deported thousands of Jews to ghettos in Poland and the Baltic states. Those deported
would share the fate of local Jews. Later, many deportation transports from Germany went directly to
the extermination camps in occupied Poland. In this footage, a German propaganda unit films recent
arrivals from Magdeburg, Germany, in a collection center run by the Jewish council in the Warsaw
ghetto. In July 1942, the Nazis began mass deportations of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the nearby
Treblinka extermination camp.” (Grinberg Archives)
How does a hero represent his/her time period
and geographical area?
•The Nazi Rein in the 1930s-1940s took Europe at such a quick rate no
one could’ve even guessed the consequences of the later named Holocaust
•Certain groups of people were targeted at and nearly obliterated:
•Jews
•Gypsies
•Polish people and anyone against Hitler’s rule
Jewish star of David patches
identifying a Jewish family
•Most succumbed to concentration/extermination camps while some
took the chance of bravery to attempt to hide out the times of evil
“There were many different kinds of victims, and each had
a different colored triangle with a letter on it that they had
to wear. Some of the victims were the Jews, Gypsies,
people with physical or mental disabilities, and Jehovah’s
Witnesses. These victims were selected simply because
they were disliked by Hitler and the other Germans.”
(World War II: Battles With No Boundaries )
How do various cultures reward or recognize
their heroes?
•The “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” was created for Scholarships
•Her book was published and awarded for her heroism
•Some say that the words in her diary
“Anne Frank is a
that we read can help us cope with the
hero because she
struggle of the violance in our world
that we face today.
was optimistic,
•Everyone from around the world
finds Anne Frank a hero in their own
way, because everyone sees heroes in
their own individual way.
patient, unselfish,
and strong.”
(Anonymous)
•Different biographies and memoirs of Anne Frank have been written in honor
of her act of bravery: children’s picture books, full biographies of her life from
beginning to end, she’s often mentioned in general books of life in the Holocaust.
In honor of the anniversary of Anne Frank's 82nd birthday on June 12, 2011, The Anne Frank Center honors Anne's effort to
improve the world with awards to citizens and educators and scholarships to students who have demonstrated
outstanding commitments to take a stand against discrimination of all kinds.
(Spirit of Anne Frank Awards)
Who was Anne Frank?
•Young Jewish girl living in times of the Holocaust
•Born Frankfurt, Germany: June 12, 1929
•Known to teachers as a “chatterbox”
•Moved to Amsterdam, Holland in 1933 to avoid Jewish
conflictions with Hitler’s rule of Germany
•Went into hiding in 1942 when Nazi’s invaded Holland
•Kept a diary that would later be published around the world
(young) Anne Frank at school
Why is she famous?
“Anne Frank is famous because her diary is, arguably, the
fullest first hand account by a Jew of life in Nazi-occupied
Europe. We have learned of what it was really like hiding from
the Nazis and about life as a Jew in Nazi-occupied Europe
during this time. Anne Frank wanted to be a writer, but never
had the chance.” (Anonymous)
•Known for her bravery of choosing to hide with seven other
people in a small annex at the back of a warehouse (formerly
owned by her father)
•She kept a diary and wrote down everything that passed
through her mind including stories, entries of what was
happening, and opinions of the situations she’d faced
•Her diary was later published by her father, in memory of
her life and love and became world renowned, translated in over
fifty languages
What was it like having a diary for a best friend?
• Anne brought the diary into the Secret Annex along with her other personal items
she was ready to keep and use for her time in hiding.
• To avoid the loneliness of not having one of her friends there, she simply gave her
diary the name of “Kitty”
• Almost daily she writes in the diary to avoid possibly boredom:
1. Short stories
2. Events going on in the secret annex
3. Her dreams for when the war is over
“Anne Frank starts keeping a diary
4. To re-write and publish her diary
from her thirteenth birthday. She
“But I want to achieve more than takes the diary to the hiding place, of
that. I can't imagine having to live
course. Anne enters the Secret
like Mother, Mrs. Van Daan and all
the women who go about their
Annex as a girl, but grows into a
work and are then forgotten. I
young woman there. She spends
need to have something besides a
more time thinking about life, and
husband and children to devote
myself to! I don't want to have
records her thoughts in her diary.”
lived in vain like most people.”
(Anne Frank History Museum)
(Anne Frank)
How could everyone withstand each other for so long?
•High hopes (at least for Anne) were
the only things that kept her sane while
eight people were forced to reside in the
Secret Annex: a small warehouse at the
back of Otto Frank’s old business.
•Everyone had to keep quiet, but even in
silence, there can be arguments, so
tensions at some points were definitely
higher at some points rather than others.
Fritz Pfeffer
The Frank Family
“The people in the Secret Annex can
never go outside, and have to remain
silent all day. They live in constant fear
of discovery. It’s tough for everyone,
and the tension increasingly erupts
into arguments.” (The Secret Annex
Online)
“One day this terrible war will be over. The time
will come when we will be people again, and
not just Jews! We can never be just Dutch, or
just English, or whatever, we will always be
Jews as well. But then, we'll want to be ” (Anne
Frank)
•“Children hiding with their
families, such as Anne
Frank, were cut off from
the world, sometimes for
years. But most of them
spent their childhood with
strangers. A few found it
necessary to move to a
number of different homes
as they encountered
problems staying in a
single location. The
families keeping them
often worried that the
Germans would discover
they were hiding Jews or
that a doubtful neighbor
could suspect the
children's true identities
and turn the families and
the Jewish children over to
the Nazis.” (Jewish Life
during the Holocaust)
What could have inspired some of the stories she wrote?
“On March 29, 1944, fourteen year old Anne Frank tuned into a radio
broadcast that would change her life—and the lives of millions of
readers around the world. Speaking on the BBC, Gerrit Bolkstein, a
member of the Dutch government in exile, urged citizens living under
the Nazis’ to preserve ordinary documents—including letters and
diaries—so that future generations would fully understand the horrors
they had endured during the war.” (PBS)
•Anne Frank listened to the radio broadcast in open mind
•After the broadcast had ended, she decided she wanted to revise and later publish her [already] two year
old journal .
•At first she wrote in the journal, strictly for private
thoughts of her life and feelings about everything
•She began to rewrite it as a memoir of her times in hiding
•Later after the Holocaust, it was found and revised one
more final time by her father, Otto Frank,,
•Her dream of having the diary published for the world to
read and enjoy had come true.
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