Question

Mention the anti-Jewish degrees passed by the German after May 1940. What, according to you, would have been its effect on the jews ?
from Anne novel ch 1

..for:- 10 marks

Answer 1

Anne's diary is not only a personal account but also a socio-historical document recording the political and cultural conditions of life during the Second World War. The diary pieces together the lived realities of being a Jew under the Nazi regime, the initial curtailments in their freedom which gradually metamorphosed into their incarceration in concentration camps and final execution. Towards the beginning, Anne documents how her relatives in Germany were suffering under Hitler's anti-Jewish laws. The troubles of the Jews in Anne's country started after the Germans arrived. Their freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees. Jews were required to wear a yellow star, turn in their bicycles, forbidden to use street-cars or ride in cars, even their own. They were required to do their  shopping between 3 and 5 PM. They were only allowed to frequent Jewish owned barbershops and beauty parlours. They were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 PM and 6 AM. They were forbidden to attend theatres, movies or any other forms of entertainment, or take part in any athletic activity in public, sit in their gardens or those of their friends after 8 PM. Jews were forbidden to visit their Christian friends in their homes. They were required to attend Jewish schools. However, their actual miseries were yet to begin as the war progressed and millions of Jews were sent to their horrifying deaths or brutally made to suffer.
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