According to Victor Kugler, who was present at the arrest, 'Margot was weeping silently. After the Westerbork transit camp, the eight people in hiding ended up in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.
The men and women were separated on the platform. In Auschwitz-Birkenau, Margot and the other prisoners were forced to cut sods or carry stones. The camp management regularly organised selections: those who were deemed fit for work by the Nazi doctors were deported to Nazi Germany, while the sick or seriously weakened prisoners were murdered in the gas chambers. Margot and Anne were part of a group that was put on the train to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the night of 1 November.
After a gruelling journey, they arrived in the overcrowded camp. The conditions in Bergen-Belsen were terrible, there was little food and hygiene was poor. Infectious diseases broke out. Margot and Anne became infected with spotted typhus. You could really see both of them dying, as well as others. Margot Frank, like her sister Anne, succumbed to spotted typhus in February , two months before the camp was liberated by British soldiers.
He immigrates to Canada in and dies in Toronto in Kugler is also referred to as Mr. Another man who helps the Franks hide. Johannes Kleiman is arrested in but released because of poor health. He remains in Amsterdam until his death in Kleiman is also referred to as Mr. Elizabeth Bep Voskuijl helps the family by serving as a liaison to the outside world.
She remains in Amsterdam until her death in She died in at the age of Peter Schiff is a boy one year older than Anne. She has dreams about him while in the annex. Peter Schiff is also referred to as Peter Wessel. A boy with whom Anne has an innocent, though romantic relationship before she goes into hiding. Hello is also referred to as Harry Goldberg. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Themes Motifs Symbols.
During the spring of , Anne and Peter van Pels started to take more than a passing interest in each other. In addition to this burgeoning relationship causing tension between Anne and her parents, there was also an exchange of letters between Anne and Margot about what Anne feared could become a love triangle.
In her reply to Margot, Anne expressed relief that Margot did not feel slighted. Picking up the exchange, Margot expanded her assessment of Peter in the next letter. But I can imagine your feeling close to him. When Margot wrote these words to Anne, the sisters had less than one year to live. Peter is a rather shy boy, two years older than Anne, and it seems that he is not averse to having Anne come and talk to him.
Anne, however, is torn between her need for someone to confide in and her fear of seeming to be "too forward," but she concludes, "Don't think I'm in love with Peter — not a bit of it! If the Van Daans had had a daughter instead of a son, I should have tried to make friends with her too.
That night, Anne dreams about a former boyfriend, also called Peter, dreaming about him in a rather romantic way, and she feels certain, upon waking, that "Peter was still the chosen one. We realize here that her relationship with Peter Van Daan compensates for many of the difficulties of her daily life, for Anne writes, "What do I care about the lot of them!
Peter belongs to me and no one knows anything about it. This way I can get over all the snubs I receive. Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?
After writing rather antagonistically about the faults of the Van Daans, Anne comes to realize that the faults which she sees in them might not necessarily be theirs alone. It is a very perceptive and mature Anne who writes, "Until now I was immovable! I always thought the Van Daans were in the wrong, but we too are partly to blame.
We have certainly been right over the subject matter; but handling of others from intelligent people which we consider ourselves to be! I hope that I have acquired a bit of insight and will use it well when the occasion arises" January 22, Another milestone of maturity is passed when Anne manages to have a conversation with Peter about sex, when he shows her his cat's male organs.
Anne feels strange, but she admires Peter for being able to talk about it in a matter-of-fact way. Other than that, the normal daily routines of the little group continue.
Anne is still involved in her studies, but she also occupies herself with compiling the family trees of the royal families of Holland and England, as well as collecting pictures of the various movie stars of the time. The adults continue to annoy her by repeatedly telling the same anecdotes, and, in a telling phrase, she marvels at the fact that "we are quite as used to the idea of going into hiding, or 'underground,' as in bygone days one was used to Daddy's bedroom slippers warming in front of the fire" January 28, Their "protectors" continue to help and encourage them, even though this involves danger for them, and Anne regards this as being on a par with all other acts of heroism performed during the war, vowing never to forget them.
The probability of an invasion of Europe by the Allies the forces fighting against the Nazis increases, and all sorts of rumors and speculations are talked about and considered. The group in the "Secret Annexe" is aware of all this through their "protectors," as well as through listening to the BBC.
Anne gives examples of the kinds of conversations conducted by the members of the group, concluding rather fatalistically, "I myself keep very quiet and don't take any notice of all the fuss and excitement.
I have now reached the stage that I don't care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep on turning without me; what is going to happen, will happen, and anyway it's no good to resist. I trust to luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well" February 3, Anne's growing relationship with Peter continues to excite and console her, even though she remains terribly frustrated by having to remain inside — especially now, when spring is beginning, filling her with longings "to talk, for freedom, for friends, to be alone!
Peter confides in her about his frustration at being unable to express himself clearly, as he claims she does, and even though she feels that this is not justified, and that she is equally tongue-tied or unnecessarily verbose, she feels glad "because I sensed a real feeling of fellowship, such as I can only remember having had with my girlfriends" February 14, On another occasion, Peter helps Anne find the smallest and sweetest potatoes, and Anne feels that he is looking at her with "such a gentle warm look which made a tender glow within me.
I could really see that he wanted to please me, and because he couldn't make a long complimentary speech he spoke with his eyes" February 16, Although Anne now feels much happier and is always hoping to see "him" when she goes upstairs, she still experiences sudden moods of unhappiness, when the tears simply roll down her cheeks, and she feels uncertain of Peter's affection for her February 19, Anne does find some solace, though, in going up to the attic, where Peter works, and from where she can look up through the skylight at "the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and the other birds as they glide on the wind" February 23, From that room, Anne can also look out over Amsterdam, gaze at the roofs, and at the horizon, and in her misery, she finds that this communion with nature, and with the things that seem more permanent than man, bring peace to her soul.
As her concern with Peter increases steadily, so that she "hardly does anything else but think of Peter" February 27, , Anne realizes that there are a great many similarities between them. Both of them, she feels, have mothers who are inadequate, and both she and Peter wrestle continually with their inner emotions. She notes, however, that whereas her reaction is to be noisy and boisterous, Peter is more likely to sink into silence.
In a sad mood, Anne ends this entry for February 28, , with the plaintive cry, "I'm sentimental — I know. I'm desperate and silly — I know that too. Oh, help me!
A burglary in the office downstairs alarms the members of the little group again, although fear does not seem to play such a large part in their lives as it did at the beginning of their period of hiding.
Anne, in particular, appears to be less fearful about things than she was before, possibly because she has developed a more fatalistic attitude, as her entry for February 3, , shows.
Still, though, she continues to resent the fact that grownups treat her, Margot, and Peter as "children" and prevent them from expressing their opinions about such subjects as overcoming depression and feelings of discouragement, which they feel as well-equipped as the adults to discuss. Anne finally admits to herself that her feelings for Peter are "pretty near to being in love with him" March 3, , and each entry in her diary records another topic of conversation discussed or another meeting between them.
Anne realizes that Peter is very shy, and she does not want to appear too eager herself, so both of them seem to be hovering on the brink of declaring their love. She writes, "Who will be the first to discover and break through this armor? In one of her more introspective moods, Anne looks back to the girl she was and to the life which she led before she went into hiding, noting that ". It was quite a different Anne who enjoyed that heavenly existence from the Anne who has grown wise within these walls" March 7, While recognizing that her life beforehand had been enjoyable, she admits that she was certainly more superficial then, and that she will never again be able to live like that, at least not for long stretches of time.
She maintains that even then she felt a certain emptiness, but disguised it with a constant flurry of activities and friends. She also analyzes the various phases which she has gone through after going into hiding.
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