Diary of Anne Frank - Personal Review

Advantages: Gives an insight into the real WW2
Disadvantages: Very emotional!

...I was first told to read this book not as a recommendation but as part of an exam. I had always been interested in the history of world war two in particular and was keen to get down and read this book. After reading this book not only once, but at least twenty times, I can truely recommend this book to anyone. It wrenches every last heart string in this epic true story of Anne Frank; a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, living in an annex of an Amsterdam office building in 1942 through to 1944. This story is a publication of Anne Franks diary. It gives an almost-every day account of a courageous young woman's experiences and suffering during the persecution of Jews. It is an in depth account of what life was really like for thousands of people in hiding, describing the fear of which they lived in and the immense pressures they were put...

MmmSophi 22.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank

The Diary of Ann Frank-excellent

Advantages: excellent
Disadvantages: why she had to hide

...I am sure we have all heard of Anne Frank the brave thirteen year old who wrote her harrowing account as she hid with her parents and sister and four other people. They were hiding in a sealed off back of rooms of an Amsterdam office building in 1942, when the Nazi invaders intensified their persecution of Jews. For two year they were safe, however in 1944 they were betrayed. Anne died in the concentration camp at Belsen. Everyone else died except her father. Her diary was discovered by accident, it reveals all the innocence of a child, the problems of her unfolding womanhood, her falling in love. Its an intimate account of her feelings and it conveys a sense of spirit and hope. Not only does it serve as an excellent historical book AS it gives first hand accounts of the persecution of the Jewish people but its an excellent...

WAD1-2-3 24.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank

Anne Franks Diary-Her Spirit Lives On

Advantages: Gives us an insight to what it was like to live in Germany as a Jew during the second world war
Disadvantages: Heart rendering,extremely shocking and tragic

...Out of the so many books i have read so far in my life, 'Anne Frank-The Diary Of A Young Girl'has got to be one of the best emotionally. The book helps understand what it was like for a girl of 13, to have to live in silence, not be able to go outside and always the fear in case your caught. Before reading the book its hard to imagine what living during a war would be like, and even harder to imagine a young girl trying to survive from the Germans. The story shows have she coped through the war living in a flat with 7 other people above a factory where her father worked. Anne copes with many hard times, and it shocks the reader when she prays for her friend from school names Hanneli not sure whether shes dead or alive. "Is she still alive?, Whats she doing? Dear God, watch over her and bring her back to us" To...

BabyBlue_501 18.07.2002 · Read review
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Review of The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank

A Frank Look At Anne

Advantages: A new look at Anne's world, fascinating footage
Disadvantages: The second documentary has faults

...I have been fascinated by the life of Anne Frank since I was young and I read her diary. My Mum had been interested too and it was her copy of the book that I read. As an adult, my interest has extended and I have not only read many books on the Frank family but also biographies and autobiographies of other victims of concentration camps and survivors. So when I saw this DVD on Ebay for £12.99, I found it easy to click on ?Buy it now?. (I usually do!) Having watched it in its entirety, I thought it was worth a review. Anne?s story is one that everyone should be aware of and this DVD provides a slightly different angle to the books or the films. Dear Kitty contains two documentaries ? Remembering Anne Frank (51 minutes, 1999) and The Short Life Of Anne Frank (28 minutes, 2002). There are no extras on the DVD, only scene access, so...

KarenUK 12.04.2005 · Read review
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Review of Anne Frank - Dear Kitty (DVD)

Anne Frank... Should Always Be Remembered

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: None

...Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank. 13 at the time Anne frank her sister margot and both parents were a jewish family living in a breaking down germany, they had to go into hiding on the hidden third floor of her fathers work building with another family they knew in Amsterdam. Her journey started in 1942 and sadly ended in 1944. Me being a teenager myself i didn't realise how similar her experiences were to mine myself. I found myself so ingrossed as you read about her family fueds, love interests, and what she notices about her self as she gets older. She writes in either small or big paragraphs stating at the beginning the date and 'To Kitty' (her diarys nickname, the only person she can confide in). I found myself crying in some parts, she really takes you through the same emotional rollercoaster she was in, just...

Emilyy 03.02.2009 · Read review
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Frankly....I'm not convinced

Advantages: Its a good story
Disadvantages: It doesnt feel quite right

...I'm sure I had, as many people had in school read Anne Franks diary. Now 12 years later my daughter wants to read it and do you think I could find it anywhere? What is considered to be a very important piece of social history wasn't in Waterstones or Blackwells. In the end we had to order it from WH Smiths who didn't stock it either!! Anyway, we finally got it 2 weeks later and found it was the latest definitive version which also has previously unpublished material. Which makes life difficult particularly if you have read the earlier editions. You see Anne originally started a diary in 1942 then in 1944 a radio announcement asked people to keep letters and diaries as eye witness accounts, so she started to rewrite and edit her diary, improved text and out in things from memory as well as keeping the original. Later Otto Frank her...

Emma1973 22.05.2003 · Read review
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Review of The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank

The story of Anne Frank- for children of all ages

Advantages: An interesting use of photos, facts and beautiful illustrations
Disadvantages: none

...and keep their attention. My own attention was drawn in particular to the actual photos from Anne's diary & family photo album. This personalises the book and tragic Anne's story. The use of photographs depicting places and people throughout the period of the Frank's life (before and after their years of hiding) bring home the hardships and horrors suffered by Jews. However, I do feel they are shown in a way that children are not distressed through learning from this book. One picture showing Hitler delivering a speech (pg 10) gives the reader a good insight into how intimidated the SAS looked in their uniforms. One of my less able boys took particular interest in this and came in the following day with further information on them. Cross curricular. The use of maps and explainations of where and why the 2nd world war started (pg14...

pixie65 22.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of DK Readers Level 3: The Story of Anne Frank - Brenda Ralph Lewis

The Anne Frank House

Advantages: a very moving learning experience
Disadvantages: long queues of people

...The Anne Frank House, on the Prinsengracht, was the foremost in my mind, when I visited Amsterdam. The place I had wanted to visit for over thirty years. Ever since I had first read "The Diary of Anne Frank". It is hard to imagine this quiet canalside street, echoing with the clatter of jackboots on the cobblestones, and the harsh, guttural commands as Dutch Jews were herded from their homes and onto trucks bound for who knew where? The tree-lined street looks to have changed little in the fifty years since. Other than the constant lines of people waiting to pay homage to a young girl whose life was cut tragically short by one of the greatest crimes against humanity. It was Otto Frank's wish that the house remain as it was after the Germans looted it, so the living quarters are empty save for a model on each floor which shows how...

poet831 21.12.2000 · Read review
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Review of Anne Frank's House, Amsterdam

Anne Frank will always be a favourite

Advantages: It's an emotionally uplifting story
Disadvantages: The terrible fact that it actually happened

...I am guessing most people have read Anne Frank's diary - and for those that have not, I strongly recommend you do. Most people will know that Anne Frank was a young girl, who in WW2, because of her religion, had to escape persecution and probable death by hiding in a small annex in Amsterdam, where even things like coughing when she had the flu, could mean the family was captured. The book, in my opinion is a great classic read of the last century - and even as I have grown up - years on from when I first read it, I can still read it now, and be just as excited, involved and emotional as I was the first time I opened it up. Anne's writing, is very often humorous and witty-especially the way she talks about her mother, and the friction between the two of them. This is one point in which many teenagers can probably relate to...

vickylou1 22.12.2004 · Read review
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Frankly, a must see

Advantages: honest and moving film of an important story
Disadvantages: will make even the most heard hearted person cry

.... The second best selling work of non-fiction, coming only behind the bible, Anne Franks Diary is widely available, and there have been many movies, and plays, and documentaries about her life. Anne Frank (sometimes called Anne Frank, The whole story) is based not on the diaries themselves, but on a biography of Anne Frank?s life written by Melissa Muller. As a result of this, we get to learn more about what happened to Anne after she stopped writing the diary. And we get a wider view of the history of the time, more information on the background of the Frank family, and more than just one view of the circumstances. For many people, its perhaps easy to accept the end of the diary as the beginning and end of the story,but that?s simply NOT the case. There is so much more to the story than just one view, and just those couple of years. Anne...

Thehonesttruth 03.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Anne Frank (DVD)