Anne Frank (10 Days Series) Book

Anne Frank(10 Days That Shook Your World)
by David Colbert
Nonfiction
144 pages

This book is about the important days that Anne Frank lived. She lived during the World War II Holocaust. Her family was trapped in the Netherlands by Nazi Germany, and Margot recieved a letter to report to the SS office, where she will be sent to the concentration camps. The SS are a police force that also acts as Hitler's personal army. The Frank goes to hiding in an office building, where nobody working there knows. Margot leaves early one morning with Miep Gies, Mr. Frank's sevretary. Then the rest of the family leaves to the secret hiding place, where Anne called 'The Secret Annex'. The van Pelses, called the van Daans in Anne's diary, including Mr. and Mrs. van Pels and Peter van Pels, hide with them. Later, Dr. Pfiffer, a middle-aged dentist, described as Albert Dussel in Anne's diary, arrives with the help of Miep. However, after more than two years of hiding, they are discovered by the betrayal of Mr. Kugler, the commpany manager of the building the residents of the secret annex were hiding in. All of them were immediately sent to Camp Westerbork, in the north-eastern region of the Netherlands. The prople are all in lines with one lines all female and the other with all males. The unhealthy, too old or too young people are sent to gas chambers where they will die in a matter of minutes. The others are sent to labor. Not long after they arrive, the Franks left Camp Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau, further away from being liberated. Disease and sickness spreads in the sleeping areas, and everyone is hungry. Anne and her sister, Margot, leaves that camp to Bergen-Belsen Camp, Germany, even further away from liberation. The whole Frank family, van Pelses, and Dr. Pfiffer passes away except Mr. Frank. They and the other prisoners who died passed away so innocently, not causing any crime.

I rated this book a four out of five because sometimes the book made me confused. I really liked how the author describes clearly about what happened to Anne and the rest of the Jew prisoners, sometimes he mixed some orders up and made me confused. I also liked the pictures with clear captions to explain things. Overall, I liked a lot of things, but the fact that the author mixed up some events.