ANNA FRANK-by Emilia Ruiz-Manjón

Anna Frank

A few months ago I read an amazing book called The diary of Anna Frank and now I want to tell you a little bit about the story and my personal opinion.

This book is based on a real diary and it talks about a jewish girl who, during the World War II , had to go to a house in Amsterdam along with her family to hide from the nazis so they wouldn't get them.  

It all starts when the Frank family moves to The Netherlands, at that moment they were having (more or less) a normal life but then Germany invaded Poland and that's when the World War II kicked off. At first Anna and her family had some hope that The Netherlands wouldn't be invaded, but on the 10th May of 1940 German troops invaded the country and two years after that, they went to hide in a house behind the working place of the father, Otho, after receiving a call from a German concentration camp.

Otho, Anna, Margot (sister) and Edith (mother) had to live with another family, the Van Pels and a dentist called Fritz Pfeffer.

They lived there for about two years with the support of some of the father's workmates who helped the eight people to get food, clothes and books. Those two years had so many issues that most people would hardly believe that they were going to be able to overcome that situation.          


Anna would always write in her diary everything that happened in the house, it was a way of expressing herself because she couldn't count on telling everything to her mother or sister because she wasn't getting along with them very well in the house. Her diary was a great support for her and there she'd write short stories and collect her favorite sentences from other writers. At the beginning of the war, Anna had been writing in a diary that her parents had given her for her birthday , but then the Minister of Education made a request for people to keep their war diaries so that's the reason why Anna decides to rewrite her diary into a new diary and add and delete some things. Her diary was written as a compilation of letters addressed to someone called Kitty. She started to edit it but she wasn't able to finish it because she, her family, the Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer were arrested on the 4th of August in 1944. The only one who survived from the house was Otho Frank, Anna's father. Miep, one of the people who helped them, saved the diary after they got arrested. When Otho came back she gave it to him and then Otho published the diary so Anna could make her dream come true, becoming a writer and being remembered even after her death.        


In my opinion I find this a great story. My dad gave it to me last summer so I could read it because he thought it'd be a really good thing for me to find out about the moving story of Anna Frank. It is a book that really touched me, I find it really encouraging because it makes you think about all the problems and the horrible things that many people had to go through compared to oneself and how you should be very thankful for what you have just like Anna, who would always see the positive side of things, even when everything seemed to fall apart.