Contest, Enter, Entering. Who Bravely Opposed Adolf

¶ … Contest, enter, entering. Who bravely opposed Adolf Hitler Holocaust? Use 3 simple sentence: bold, 3 complex sentences: italicize, 3 complex sentences: underline, proposal.

White Rose Essay Contest Proposal

A true heroine: Miep Gies

Miep Gies is one of the great heroines of World War II. During World War II, Jewish people living in the Nazi-occupied nations lived in fear. The Nazis rounded up Jews and sent their prisoners to concentration camps. All Jews were forced to wear a yellow Star of David to identify them as Jewish. The Nazis were relentless, and there was only so much even good gentiles could do to help their fellow Jewish citizens. But the Dutch woman Miep Gies did more than the average person to help the Jewish people of Amsterdam.

The definition of a hero is someone who goes above and beyond what is expected of an average person to help others. The Frank family was a Jewish family who decided to go into hiding after their oldest daughter Margot was ordered to report to a work camp. The Frank family fled their home with only the clothes they could wear on their backs, and hid in what they called 'The Secret Annex,' a hidden room in which they hoped to hide from the Nazis until their city was liberated.

The Frank family could not have lived in the Attic without help from people in the outside world. Miep Gies was a gentile. She was a former employee of Otto Frank, the father of the Frank family. Miep was one of the few people trusted with the knowledge of the Frank's hiding place. She brought the Franks food, medicine, and other necessities. She also gave them things to amuse themselves during their long, lonely days. The Franks, and the other Jewish people who joined them to hide in the attic, often had to remain very still during the day and only move around at night. People who did not know about their hiding place worked in the office during the day, and the Franks did not want to raise suspicion by making too much noise.

Miep Gies helped the Franks at tremendous personal risk to herself. The penalty for helping Jews during World War II was death. There was not much food or other supplies in Amsterdam, so every precious thing she gave to the Franks came off of her own table or from her own cupboard. While some Jewish people paid gentiles to help them during World War II, Miep Gies did so out of charity, not for money. She was a true great Samaritan.

Of course, the most famous member of the Frank family was Anne Frank. Anne was a young teenager when she went into hiding, and kept a daily record of her life. Anne wanted to be a great writer, and wrote her diary with the hopes of it being published someday. However, her dream was not realized. Someone informed on the Frank family, and the Nazis raided the Secret Annex. Anne and her sister Margot died in a concentration camp.