The Jewish people were dehumanized in a variety of ways including what they couldn't have couldn't do, and what they had to wear. The Jews must where the yellow star, Jews must hand in there bicycles , Jew are banned for trams and are forbidden to drive. Jews are only allowed to do shopping between three and five o'clock and only in shops that bear the placard "Jewish shop." Jew must be indoors by eight o'clock and can not even sit in their own gardins after that hour. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and other places of entertainment. There are many more examples but these rules make the Jews feel less than human.
For the examples of dehumanization in Anne Frank there are the obvious actions the Jews had to take from the Nazi's but there are also the subtle challenges Anne has to face in her daily life. The one that stands out the most to me is how Anne is treated by the adults in the Annex. She is constantly being ridiculed and corrected, lectured and addressed. A great example is when she asks Mr. Dussel if she could use the desk in their room for only an hour and a half, two days a week, during the afternoons. Mr. Dussel immediately shuts Anne down with no further discussion. When Anne prods him and continues to ask, he replies that if Margot had asked him he surely would've have let her, but because Anne is so immature and always looking for trouble he won't allow it. This is very annoying and hurtful when all you want is to be treated like an adult and the adults around you keep pushing you down and treating you like a child.
Dehumination can be found many times in this book. Anne describes many instances. First, the Jews are forbidden to use street cars, forbidden to ride in cars, required to shop in the hours of 3 and 5pm, required to wear a yello star at all times, and so on. Hitler was treating Jewish people less and less as humans. In her diary, Anne explained that she heard a story that even pregnant women, sick people, chilren and babies, and the elderly were forced into the camps.
The Diary of a Young Girl is filled with examples of dehumanization. The most basic ones are that Jews went to Jewish schools, had to wear a yellow star and they could only ride bikes but then they got their bikes taken away. Jews could only shop between 3 and 5 p.m. and only use Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors, etc. They were forbidden to do nearly everything just because of their religion! Also, the Nazis captured and sent Jews to camps where they tortured and killed them. Another form of dehumanization can be found when the Franks go into hiding and everyone treats Anne as a child. The adults never listen to her opinion or her side of the story and blame her with one side of the story. JK P3
The Diary of a Young Girl is not only filled with examples of dehumanization, but in fact, this diary is dehumanization in a story. Jews losing their many small rights and conveniences was just the beginning of the dehumanization that happened in Germany from 1933-1945. Many examples of these losses were already mentioned by my fellow students. As the situation in Germany worsened, Jews were sent to ghettos which were packed and in very horrendous condition. Other Jews were sent to concentration camps along with Gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, and other hated types of people not belonging to the Aryan race. The Nazis forced Anne's family along with many other families into hiding. Besides making them hide as a plain example of dehumanization, being in hiding for over a year has its larger effects too. Anne longs just for a breath of fresh air or to see her friends. This is an example of how dehumanization causes problem psychologically.
There is little in her diary that isn't either a cruel, if not completely understood, example of dehumanization or the inane whims and flights of fancy of a teenager with nothing to do.
She says how Jews cannot ride in the public train cars though they cannot have a bike to ride instead and have a very strict curfew.
They cannot be in their OWN gardens after a certain time, can not visit their white friends and neighbors.
They can only shop in Jewish stores and the only times they are allowed are horribly aggravating.
It seems as if the Nazis are constantly closing in on the Jews, creating a tight fence around them. A wall. A labyrinth they can only pray to escape alive.
Anne is constantly ignored and shot down in the Secret Annex and is considered worthless, even among family.
I would like to mention that I love Austin's example that being hidden away like that has caused Anne so much love for what she cannot have and the next time she experiences it, she's on the way to a concentration camp. And that makes it worse.
Humans need hope. Without anything to look forward to, we drown in the despair of the problems of the present. Indeed, Paul writes to the Corinthians that hope is one of the three things that remains in the end. As the war drags on for years, the people in the Annex begin to lose their hope. The nagging question of "What if the Germans win?" is silently raised when the war does not seem to have an end. Will we have to remain in hiding forever? Will we never see our friends, or feel the heat of the sun, ever again? In one of her more reflective moods, Anne feels the weather giving her hope, and hopes that the hope can last. However, the relative lack of hope that the people in the Annex feel is evident. This form of dehumanization causes the residents to often sink into depression and have conflict with each other, a maddening disease that cannot be cured except by a sight of the end of the war and a return to a normalcy they have forgotten.
There are many examples of dehumanization listed in the Diary. First, Anne writed down a list of restrictions placed on Jews at the Beginning of the book, including having to turn in their bikes and only being forced to where the yellow star on their clothes. These many restrictions and the fact that Jews are being captured make the Franks go into hiding. There is also the endless ridicule that Anne recieves in the Annex about her being too loud, immature, etc. She wished to be treated like an adult like her sister, but all the do is degrade her with criticism and treat her like a child. Anne it tired of this and it eventually makes her somewhat reclusive.
Dehumanization was a major theme in the Diary of Anne Frank. Hilter caused all of the Jewish people, Gypsies, and other small subsets of the population to become terrified to walk outside. They were sent to concentration camps where they were just killed off like flies. They were only killed because of how they had been born or how they had chosen to live. They were forced to sew Jewish stars onto everything that they wore so that the Nazis would know that they were Jewish. Also they weren't allowed simple things like being able to ride a bike or having a curfew. The Nazis overall did not even view the Jews as humans. They thought that they were so below them that the Jewish people were more like vermin that were in deep need of extermenation then regular human beings ~MK P-3.
Diary of a Young Girl just scratched the surface of the dehumanization that was prevalent in the holocaust. People were used as lab rats and treated less then human beings. Men and women alike were killed because of how they were born. People with mental disorders, Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and others were brutally convicted for a reason that few can now understand. Humans were punished because of the minority they belonged too. We have so much blatant disregard for basic human rights; what does that say about mankind as a whole? How can we be brainwashed into believing that killing others because one man says it's the right thing to do? I believe it's because people have been raised to "follow the leader”. Since the beginning of time, men have always been raised to have a leader and trust what they say. But if just one person can tell so many people to kill those they grew up with and had play dates with as children, how can we blame dehumanization on the leaders of the axis powers? Shouldn’t blame be put on both the Nazis and their followers? Dehumanization was so obvious in the holocaust. It wasn’t just concentration camps. It was the friends and neighbors of the Jews, mentally disabled, homosexuals, and others turning their backs on them simply because they were told to do so. Few people went under the law to help there friends. The sad truth is that the numbers should have been much higher. So I believe that dehumanization was not just used in the concentration camps, but around the streets and towns of Germany and the rest of Europe. Those who used to be friends became silent enemies.
Text-self Anne frank, when you get right down to it, is just a lonely teenage girl looking for a friend. When she receives her diary, she is really receiving that friend! A diary (Kitty) will not leave her, they cannot get in fights, and it cannot condescend her like everyone else in the annex with her does. I think every girl has an inanimate object they share this connection with. For me, my “friend” is music. No matter what emotions are running through my mind, there is always a song that was written to lift my spirits, calm me down, or relate to a problem. For me listening to melodies, harmonies, and Calming piano is a friend. For Anne Frank it is writing in her diary; Being able to think about her emotions and channel them into a beautiful piece of literature. I always have music on in my house, and Anne always has her diary. We all need a friend that won’t talk back.
Text-world Many teenagers in this world feel trapped. Confinement is always there, and they feel as if their impending doom is imminent. While for Anne Frank it was much more intense, many teens feel it. The diary Anne wrote while she was in the Annex has the ability to relate to teens that have hard families or situations to live in People around the world have families that talk down to them. Tell them they are bad and insufferable. Those people need the words that Anne was able to say. Those are the people around the world who just want to take a breath of fresh air, lay in a meadow, and count the clouds in the sky. They are just like Anne. But the world seems all too big, wide, and like there is not something that knows what they are feeling. All too often people take their own lives because they believe that no one else knows what they are feeling. But Anne Frank knew what they were feeling. And if even more teens around the world would stop and enjoy the book that Anne wrote when she was just a child, maybe the world would not seem so dark. And maybe the dark cloud of despair would disappear. Then we could all have our day in the meadow. Just like Anne wanted.
Hitler and his Third Reich led the holocaust, but before the concentration camps was the dehumanization of Jews. There were many things that the Germans did to dehumanize the Jews, such as close down shops, not allow them to ride in street cars, separate the schools, not allowing them to ride bikes, but many things were not direct laws, many were things that stemmed from the initial dehumanization like no connection to the outside world, having small quarters, being separated from friends and seeing the non-Jews outside being able to play. All of these things were ways the the Nazis dehumanized Jews and other non-Aryans
Anne and the other people in the Annex suffer many types of dehumanization. After going into hiding, the "hiders" are subjected to a sort of solitary confinement. Anne says the Annex is ruled by moods; with the same people every day, conflicts arise like sparks from a fire. The cruelty becomes apparent after a while, as they huddle around radio for any news, wait tirelessly for their helpers, and argue for hours when the friction builds up. Being confined like that wore away their rationality and inhibitions, leaving them dangerously reliant on emotion.
The Jewish people were dehumanized in a variety of ways including what they couldn't have couldn't do, and what they had to wear. The Jews must where the yellow star, Jews must hand in there bicycles , Jew are banned for trams and are forbidden to drive. Jews are only allowed to do shopping between three and five o'clock and only in shops that bear the placard "Jewish shop." Jew must be indoors by eight o'clock and can not even sit in their own gardins after that hour. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and other places of entertainment. There are many more examples but these rules make the Jews feel less than human.
ReplyDeleteFor the examples of dehumanization in Anne Frank there are the obvious actions the Jews had to take from the Nazi's but there are also the subtle challenges Anne has to face in her daily life. The one that stands out the most to me is how Anne is treated by the adults in the Annex. She is constantly being ridiculed and corrected, lectured and addressed. A great example is when she asks Mr. Dussel if she could use the desk in their room for only an hour and a half, two days a week, during the afternoons. Mr. Dussel immediately shuts Anne down with no further discussion. When Anne prods him and continues to ask, he replies that if Margot had asked him he surely would've have let her, but because Anne is so immature and always looking for trouble he won't allow it. This is very annoying and hurtful when all you want is to be treated like an adult and the adults around you keep pushing you down and treating you like a child.
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Dehumination can be found many times in this book. Anne describes many instances. First, the Jews are forbidden to use street cars, forbidden to ride in cars, required to shop in the hours of 3 and 5pm, required to wear a yello star at all times, and so on. Hitler was treating Jewish people less and less as humans. In her diary, Anne explained that she heard a story that even pregnant women, sick people, chilren and babies, and the elderly were forced into the camps.
ReplyDeleteThe Diary of a Young Girl is filled with examples of dehumanization. The most basic ones are that Jews went to Jewish schools, had to wear a yellow star and they could only ride bikes but then they got their bikes taken away. Jews could only shop between 3 and 5 p.m. and only use Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors, etc. They were forbidden to do nearly everything just because of their religion! Also, the Nazis captured and sent Jews to camps where they tortured and killed them. Another form of dehumanization can be found when the Franks go into hiding and everyone treats Anne as a child. The adults never listen to her opinion or her side of the story and blame her with one side of the story.
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The Diary of a Young Girl is not only filled with examples of dehumanization, but in fact, this diary is dehumanization in a story. Jews losing their many small rights and conveniences was just the beginning of the dehumanization that happened in Germany from 1933-1945. Many examples of these losses were already mentioned by my fellow students. As the situation in Germany worsened, Jews were sent to ghettos which were packed and in very horrendous condition. Other Jews were sent to concentration camps along with Gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, and other hated types of people not belonging to the Aryan race.
ReplyDeleteThe Nazis forced Anne's family along with many other families into hiding. Besides making them hide as a plain example of dehumanization, being in hiding for over a year has its larger effects too. Anne longs just for a breath of fresh air or to see her friends. This is an example of how dehumanization causes problem psychologically.
AW-Wow. You are right about Anne's longing fo a breath of fresh air being a cruel form of dehumanization.
ReplyDeleteThere is little in her diary that isn't either a cruel, if not completely understood, example of dehumanization or the inane whims and flights of fancy of a teenager with nothing to do.
ReplyDeleteShe says how Jews cannot ride in the public train cars though they cannot have a bike to ride instead and have a very strict curfew.
They cannot be in their OWN gardens after a certain time, can not visit their white friends and neighbors.
They can only shop in Jewish stores and the only times they are allowed are horribly aggravating.
It seems as if the Nazis are constantly closing in on the Jews, creating a tight fence around them. A wall. A labyrinth they can only pray to escape alive.
Anne is constantly ignored and shot down in the Secret Annex and is considered worthless, even among family.
I would like to mention that I love Austin's example that being hidden away like that has caused Anne so much love for what she cannot have and the next time she experiences it, she's on the way to a concentration camp. And that makes it worse.
Humans need hope. Without anything to look forward to, we drown in the despair of the problems of the present. Indeed, Paul writes to the Corinthians that hope is one of the three things that remains in the end. As the war drags on for years, the people in the Annex begin to lose their hope. The nagging question of "What if the Germans win?" is silently raised when the war does not seem to have an end. Will we have to remain in hiding forever? Will we never see our friends, or feel the heat of the sun, ever again? In one of her more reflective moods, Anne feels the weather giving her hope, and hopes that the hope can last. However, the relative lack of hope that the people in the Annex feel is evident. This form of dehumanization causes the residents to often sink into depression and have conflict with each other, a maddening disease that cannot be cured except by a sight of the end of the war and a return to a normalcy they have forgotten.
ReplyDeleteThere are many examples of dehumanization listed in the Diary. First, Anne writed down a list of restrictions placed on Jews at the Beginning of the book, including having to turn in their bikes and only being forced to where the yellow star on their clothes. These many restrictions and the fact that Jews are being captured make the Franks go into hiding. There is also the endless ridicule that Anne recieves in the Annex about her being too loud, immature, etc. She wished to be treated like an adult like her sister, but all the do is degrade her with criticism and treat her like a child. Anne it tired of this and it eventually makes her somewhat reclusive.
ReplyDeleteDehumanization was a major theme in the Diary of Anne Frank. Hilter caused all of the Jewish people, Gypsies, and other small subsets of the population to become terrified to walk outside. They were sent to concentration camps where they were just killed off like flies. They were only killed because of how they had been born or how they had chosen to live. They were forced to sew Jewish stars onto everything that they wore so that the Nazis would know that they were Jewish. Also they weren't allowed simple things like being able to ride a bike or having a curfew. The Nazis overall did not even view the Jews as humans. They thought that they were so below them that the Jewish people were more like vermin that were in deep need of extermenation then regular human beings ~MK P-3.
ReplyDeleteDiary of a Young Girl just scratched the surface of the dehumanization that was prevalent in the holocaust. People were used as lab rats and treated less then human beings. Men and women alike were killed because of how they were born. People with mental disorders, Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and others were brutally convicted for a reason that few can now understand. Humans were punished because of the minority they belonged too. We have so much blatant disregard for basic human rights; what does that say about mankind as a whole? How can we be brainwashed into believing that killing others because one man says it's the right thing to do? I believe it's because people have been raised to "follow the leader”. Since the beginning of time, men have always been raised to have a leader and trust what they say. But if just one person can tell so many people to kill those they grew up with and had play dates with as children, how can we blame dehumanization on the leaders of the axis powers? Shouldn’t blame be put on both the Nazis and their followers? Dehumanization was so obvious in the holocaust. It wasn’t just concentration camps. It was the friends and neighbors of the Jews, mentally disabled, homosexuals, and others turning their backs on them simply because they were told to do so. Few people went under the law to help there friends. The sad truth is that the numbers should have been much higher. So I believe that dehumanization was not just used in the concentration camps, but around the streets and towns of Germany and the rest of Europe. Those who used to be friends became silent enemies.
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ReplyDeleteAnne frank, when you get right down to it, is just a lonely teenage girl looking for a friend. When she receives her diary, she is really receiving that friend! A diary (Kitty) will not leave her, they cannot get in fights, and it cannot condescend her like everyone else in the annex with her does. I think every girl has an inanimate object they share this connection with. For me, my “friend” is music. No matter what emotions are running through my mind, there is always a song that was written to lift my spirits, calm me down, or relate to a problem. For me listening to melodies, harmonies, and Calming piano is a friend. For Anne Frank it is writing in her diary; Being able to think about her emotions and channel them into a beautiful piece of literature. I always have music on in my house, and Anne always has her diary. We all need a friend that won’t talk back.
KR p2
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ReplyDeleteMany teenagers in this world feel trapped. Confinement is always there, and they feel as if their impending doom is imminent. While for Anne Frank it was much more intense, many teens feel it. The diary Anne wrote while she was in the Annex has the ability to relate to teens that have hard families or situations to live in People around the world have families that talk down to them. Tell them they are bad and insufferable. Those people need the words that Anne was able to say. Those are the people around the world who just want to take a breath of fresh air, lay in a meadow, and count the clouds in the sky. They are just like Anne. But the world seems all too big, wide, and like there is not something that knows what they are feeling. All too often people take their own lives because they believe that no one else knows what they are feeling. But Anne Frank knew what they were feeling. And if even more teens around the world would stop and enjoy the book that Anne wrote when she was just a child, maybe the world would not seem so dark. And maybe the dark cloud of despair would disappear. Then we could all have our day in the meadow. Just like Anne wanted.
KR p2
Hitler and his Third Reich led the holocaust, but before the concentration camps was the dehumanization of Jews. There were many things that the Germans did to dehumanize the Jews, such as close down shops, not allow them to ride in street cars, separate the schools, not allowing them to ride bikes, but many things were not direct laws, many were things that stemmed from the initial dehumanization like no connection to the outside world, having small quarters, being separated from friends and seeing the non-Jews outside being able to play. All of these things were ways the the Nazis dehumanized Jews and other non-Aryans
ReplyDeleteAnne and the other people in the Annex suffer many types of dehumanization. After going into hiding, the "hiders" are subjected to a sort of solitary confinement. Anne says the Annex is ruled by moods; with the same people every day, conflicts arise like sparks from a fire. The cruelty becomes apparent after a while, as they huddle around radio for any news, wait tirelessly for their helpers, and argue for hours when the friction builds up. Being confined like that wore away their rationality and inhibitions, leaving them dangerously reliant on emotion.
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