Female Experiences of Holocaust in Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl

Abstract

Anne Frank depicts the contemporary life situation of Jewish people in Europe unde Nazis terrorism in the 1930s and 40s through specific Holocaust experiences of the female Anne herself was doubly suppressed: first by the patriarchal society and second by the holocaust of the Second World War. She herself was a representative of all Jewish women of her time. The Nazi wanted to eliminate Jewish people from Europe. So Jewish women wer made the primary target by the Nazi. But despite Nazis’ policy, Anne was able to stand firm on her ambition of being a writer. And the hindrance that society created to develop her writing career causes a kind of tension in her mind which at last leads her to a successful path. Anne Frank negates the bourgeois notion of women as docile, submissive and so on. In addition, she negates the Nazis’ policy of eliminating Jews and their special target upon Jewish women through her writing in a diary. Since Anne was a representation of Jewish women of her time, the diary is the best example of female experience of the holocaust.