Everyone has heard about The Diary of Anne Frank, but not everyone truly understands her days of terror and fear. The Holocaust put innocent peoples’ lives into the hands of guilty criminals without any struggle.

“The Holocaust is a history of enduring horror and sorrow,” said Louis Bulow, author of The Holocaust: Crimes, Heroes, and Villains. Life in the Holocaust consisted of hiding or trying to survive in the concentration camps. These camps were ruled by Nazi soldiers that had been taught wrongly and dangerously by the evil dictator Adolf Hitler.

“Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators of the twentieth century,” said Robert Cowley, editor of The Holocaust on the History Channel’s website. Hitler believed in a perfect union which didn’t involve Jewish-raised human beings. To get rid of these innocent caring people, Hitler derived a plan ordering the Nazi soldiers to capture Jewish people and torture them at the concentration camps. The camps forced the inmates to do manual labor. Once they were old and not as strong, they were killed! Gas chambers were located inside of the enclosed area to strangle groups of Jews at one time.

On the other hand, some of the Jews went into hiding to keep themselves from being taken. Anne Frank, one of the most famous children in the Holocaust, went into hiding for two years with Otto, Margot, Anne, and Edith which were her family members.

“As well as the Frank family, there are four other Jews in the Secret Annex: Herman and Auguste van Pels with their son Peter, and Frity Pfeffer,” said Henny Brandhorst, editor of The Hiding Place. Anne’s family was not perfect, but she did make the best of it. Unlike Anne, her sister, Margot, was seemingly quiet.

“Margot’s experiences are juxtaposed with Anne’s in an original and ultimately triumphant new voice: a voice that has been waiting silently to emerge from the ashes of the Shoah,” said Alouf-Mizarhi, editor of The Silent Sister. Margot also kept a diary until the dreadful day two years after they went into hiding. She loved her sister so much, and even though sometimes they got themselves into conflicts, their love for each other never grew less!

“On August 4, 1944, fifteen year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents, and four other people by the Gestapo. (Anne and her sister, Margot, died the following year at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp),” said Hunter Bretzius editor of the Gatzon Gazette. Otto survived the Holocaust without having the comfort of his family after the dreadful, August day.