Historical Fiction Transfer Task

Ali Bingman
Jewish Discrimination
In the Diary of Anne Frank, Anne talks about the discrimination as if it is an
everyday, normal thing. This saddens about everyone who reads the book because it
has become a way of life for Jews. In the book Anne says some of the many rules there
were that the Jews had to follow.
Jews must wear a yellow star, Jews must hand in their bicycles, Jews are banned
from trams and are forbidden to drive. Jews are only allowed to do their shopping
between three and five oclock and then only in shops which bear the placard of Jewish
Shop. Jews must be indoors by eight oclock and cannot even sit in their own gardens
after that hour. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and other places of
entertainment. Jews may not take part in public sports. Swimming baths, tennis courts,
hockey fields, and other sports grounds are all prohibited to them. Jews may not visit
Christians. Jews must go to Jewish schools, and many more restrictions of a similar
kind. (Frank 4)
All over Germany in the 1930s and 40s Jews were restricted from many things
that Anne described. This article talked about the years that Jews were oppressed. But
in 1936 Hitler made Germany seem like the Jews were fully integrated but when the
world left again it went back to the awful discrimination Anne described.
During the first six years of Hitler's dictatorship, from 1933 until the outbreak of war in
1939, Jews felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all
aspects of their public and private lives. Many of those laws were national ones that had
been issued by the German administration and affected all Jews. (USHMM Anti-Jewish
Legislation in Prewar Germany)

Rejoice On D-Day
In the novel Anne and the rest of the annex rejoice on D-Day, for they might be
liberated soon. This is so because then they will be able to come out of hiding and go
back to their old lives which are what they wanted because the Franks, Van Daans, and
Dr. Dussel have been in the annex for two years. So if this was a victory for the Allies
the war might soon be over.
Would the long-awaited liberation that has been talked of so much, but which seems
too wonderful, too much like a fairy tale, ever to come true? Could we be granted
victory this year, 1944? (Frank 245)
In the article that I read on D-Day and part of a news segment that I listened to
that was broadcasted on D-Day said that the invasion had been a time for the Allies to
rejoice because the war might soon be over. D-Day had begun on June 6, 1944 on the
beaches of Normandy, France and not long after the Allies did in fact win World War II.
It is hard to conceive the epic scope of this decisive battle that foreshadowed the end
of Hitlers dream of Nazi domination. Overlord was the largest air, land, and sea
operation undertaken before or since June 6, 1944. The landing included over 5,000
ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men. After years of meticulous
planning and seemingly endless training, for the Allied Forces, it all came down to this:
The boat ramp goes down, then jump, swim, run, and crawl to the cliffs. (National DDay Memorial: D-Day Overview)

Bibliography

Jewish Discrimination:
"Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany." United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 20 June 2014. Web. 25 Mar.
2015. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005681>.
Rejoice On D-Day:
"D-Day Overview." National D-Day Memorial. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015.
<http://www.dday.org/history/d-day-the-invasion/overview>.