What if anne frank had survived

They're aided by a handful of incredibly courageous Dutch men and women, but existence is a tense, boring ordeal. Finally, their secret is betrayed. A few short chapters capture the hellish conditions at Auschwitz, Anne and Margot's first camp. The longest section of Annelies details what we might term "life after death".

Anne moves back in with Pim, whose stoicism and determination to carry on enrage her. In fact, she's angry at everything: the Nazis, the Dutch, the world for letting this happen to them, her fellow Jews for not being as angry as her, and perhaps most of all, herself.

Anne feels regret for mistreating her mother Edith in life. She has survivor's guilt - why should I live when so many didn't? And she's haunted by Margot, literally: her sister appears as a ghost throughout the story, a kind of disembodied Greek chorus - pestering, questioning, challenging and comforting Anne.

Through all this, the famous diary remains lost, or so Anne believes. The urge to be a writer hasn't been quashed, though; like most teenagers, she wants to express her true self, move to a glamorous city New York and basically change the world. Annelies was reasonably engaging and made me want to keep going but it has, in my opinion, two quite significant problems. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in as The Annexe.

The diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June until 1 August She also wrote an Autobiography on her time in the Concentration camp and its liberation and the year following that sold 36 million copies worldwide, four million less than her diary.

Both were critically acclaimed. She has also authored many books. Otto Frank survived his internment in Auschwitz. After the war ended, he returned to Amsterdam, where he was sheltered by Jan and Miep Gies as he attempted to locate his family. He learned of the death of his wife, Edith, in Auschwitz, but remained hopeful that his daughters had survived. After several weeks, he discovered Margot and Anne had also survived.

He attempted to determine the fates of his daughters' friends and learned many had been murdered. Susanne Sanne Ledermann, often mentioned in Anne's diary, had been gassed along with her parents; her sister, Barbara, a close friend of Margot's, had survived. Several of the Frank sisters' school friends had survived, as had the extended families of Otto and Edith Frank, as they had fled Germany during the mids, with individual family members settling in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Still, months after a gunman killed 11 worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue, a novel that reminds the world to remember Anne Frank is most welcome. More: Love 'Bird Box'? Here are five books to read beside the one it's based on. More: 5 new books not to miss this week, including Gwyneth Paltrow's 'Clean Plate' cookbook. What might have happened if Anne Frank survived Holocaust? The young Carry Ulreich documents all the occurrences and news reports they heard starting from December , around a year-and-a-half after the Nazis first occupied the Netherlands, until the end of the war in Her diary takes the reader on a journey toward already known destruction, yet at the same time documents a miracle that went against the grain and gravity of history.

Both were Jewish teenagers from middle-class families, writing while in hiding in the center of a major city in the occupied Netherlands.

But their backgrounds were quite different: While Frank grew up in a secular family with weak Jewish or Zionist ties, Carry Ulreich, who was born in , came from an observant, Zionist family that was involved with the Jewish community.

According to her diary, they knew or had at least heard about the Nazi death camps as early as Her writing is restrained, sometimes laconic, even when writing about the most personal subjects — as if she was an archivist. Here and there we see a flash of gentle humor or raging emotion, but these are always in the background. These on their own accumulate into a thorough, nerve-racking chronicle of the danger gradually closing in, of ever more stringent decrees, of body and soul on the verge of breaking and the diminishing sweetness of her routine.