Anne Anne FrankFrank

How do we define the How do we define the personality traits of a hero?personality traits of a hero?

• he·ro [heer-oh] • noun, plural -roes; for 5 also -ros. 1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his

brave deeds and noble qualities.

2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model

3. the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.

4. 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.

Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hero

How do the setting, How do the setting, conflicts, and antagonists conflicts, and antagonists influence the development influence the development

of literary heroes?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 How does a hero reflect his/her particular culture his/her particular culture

and society?and society?

“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)

• 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.

How does a hero represent How does a hero represent his/her time period and his/her time period and

geographical area?geographical area?

Jewish star of David patches identifying a Jewish family

•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

•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 How do various cultures reward or recognize their reward or recognize their

heroes?heroes?•The “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” was created for Scholarships

•Her book was published and awarded for her heroism

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)

“Anne Frank is a hero because she

was optimistic, patient, unselfish,

and strong.” (Jessica from Vermont)

•Some say that the words in her diary that we read can help us cope with the struggle of the violance in our world that we face today.

•Everyone from around the world finds Anne Frank a hero in their own way, because everyone sees heroes in their own individual way.

•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.

Who was Anne Frank?Who was Anne Frank?

((young) Anne Frank at school

•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

Why is she famous?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.” (Joncey)

•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 What was it like having a diary for a best friend?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

4. To re-write and publish her diary

“Anne Frank starts keeping a diary from her thirteenth birthday. She

takes the diary to the hiding place, of course. Anne enters the Secret Annex as a girl, but grows into a young woman there. She spends more time thinking about life, and records her thoughts in her diary.”

(Anne Frank History Museum)

“But I want to achieve more than that. I can't imagine having to live like Mother, Mrs. Van Daan and all the women who go about their work and are then forgotten. I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don't want to have lived in vain like most people.” (Anne Frank)

How could everyone withstand How could everyone withstand each other for so long?each other for so long?

•“Children hiding with their families, such as Anne Anne FrankFrank, 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)

Fritz Pfeffer

The Frank Family

“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)

•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.

“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)

What could have inspired some What could have inspired some of the stories she wrote?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.