The book The Diary of a Young Girl is an intense set of diary intries written by a jewish teenage girl  named Anne Frank during the holocaust. She writes all about her life in hiding with her family and the terror and problems they face with the fear of being found. Even throough all of that though she still has her reagular family problems as everyone else. She argues with her mother and sister all the time because she fells as though they are picking on her and how she fells only as though her father understands her.
   Anne also writes about the anger between her family and the one which they were staying with in the attic. In her diary she explains the fued between her mother and the other families mother, and the weird boyish was of the other families son. Throughout the story even though they are isolated from the world for a little over two years both family deal with the same problems as all other normal families in the outside world. The parents dealing with rebellious children and their attitudes, then the children dealing with the feelings of being alone and haviing no one there to understand them and what they are going through.
   While Anne is in the attic she and her sister still learn and are educated by the parents as if they were being homeschooled which I find extraordinary because if I were but in hiding out of fear for my life I dought that the main thing on my mind would every be school. Even so I guess that was their way of keeping the feeling that they were apart of the world and had a life instead of just being stuck in the attic.Through the story though Anne Frank always keeps her head high, with a few exceptions. She always writes as though she and her family will survive and be okay.

   The Pied Piper reminds me of the Holocuast because alot of people were taken away with the promise of a safe place.  Both of these event focused on one group of people and getting rid of them leaving a lasting impression on everyone whose heard the story of it or about it. Even though the pied Piper story is fictional it was based on the true events of the Children Crusade in England in 1212.

   During the holocaust alot of Jewish citizens in Germany and other surrounding countries were taken to concentration camps and brutially murdered or tortured over a long period of time. This is very sad to me because many innocent people were killed because of one evil person and the idiotic people that followed in his beliefs. Its something that has affected everyone from that time on in all parts of the world, showing how cruel any person or group of people could actually be.

   In the story the Pied Piper a man is promised by the British government that he would be payed if he could get rid of all of the rats/mice that were roaming the city. When the man does as the government says they dont hold up their end of the bargain and pay him, this results in the Pied Piper taken all of the children in their town and leading them somewhere that the parents of the town would never find them. This story was told as a historical fictional twist on the Childrens Crusades.In the Childrens Crusades over 30,000 children over Europe all went to Genoa to the Pope saying that they were their for a Christain were and that he difed them. The children then were turned around and sent back the way they came. None of the children ever made it home and that lead to the myth of the Pied Piper.