Describe the conditions prevailing during holocaust with reference to the diary of a young girl or Anne Frank.
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The Diary of a Young Girl is a heart-rending account of the atrocities that German Nazis inflicted upon Jews by killing them mercilessly. The magnitude of the holocaust was known only after the World War 2 ended which resulted in the killing of six million Jews. After Margot received the letter by SS Anne and her family who live in the Secret Annexe go through a life of endless threat and fear. Her diary entries give us a glimpse of the havoc that the war played with the lives of Jews who were to be exterminated according to the Nazi philosophy.
It was On March 27, 1943, Anne reacts to an announcement by the Germans that all Jews are to be deported from German-occupied territories. She refers to the victims as poor people shipped off to slaughterhouses like sick cattle. On March 31, 1944, she reacts to the news that Hungary has been occupied by German troops. The million Jews in that country are "doomed," she writes. On October 9, 1942, Anne writes about the harsh and inhuman conditions in Westerbork, the labor camp in Holland to which Jews were being sent. She also commented that in the German camps conditions must be much worse. The Jews of Holland assume that the Jews are being murdered in the camps, and they have heard (correctly) on the BBC radio that the method of murder is by gas.
The diary only serves as an introduction to the Holocaust, but it gives no direct insight into the full horror of what was happening, and which would happen to Anne herself in the last eight months of her life.