Who Was Anne Frank 安妮·弗兰克 Chapter 8 Caught!

By the time Anne turned fifteen, the families had been in hiding for almost two years—more than 650 days. It was June 1944. The war was drawing to a close. Italy, once an ally of Germany, had surrendered. The Allied¹ forces were freeing France. On a map pinned to a wall of the Annex², Otto kept track of the Allies’ progress. To Anne it was as if friends were approaching. She began looking ahead to freedom.
On July 15, 1944, she wrote, “I think it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end . . . In the meantime I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out!”

Then on the morning of August 4, 1944, Peter heard loud shouting from below. Men’s voices. With guns raised, Nazi³ police stormed the Annex. After so long, after being so careful, they were caught. It was all over.
Someone had betrayed the people in the Secret Annex. But who? To this day no one knows. Certainly it was not any of the helpers.
After Anne and the others were led off, Miep sneaked⁴ into the Annex. She wanted to get there before the Nazis⁵ returned to clear out everything. She found Anne’s diary on the floor, pages scattered⁶ all over. Miep gathered them up, as well as the Frank family photo albums, and ocked them in a desk drawer. She hoped that after the war she would be able to return everyhing to the amily.
As for the eight people in the Annex, all ended up in a concentration camp in Poland. Mr. Pfeffer, Mr. Van Pels, Peter, and Otto were on the men’s side.
Anne, Margot, Edith, and Mrs. Van Pels went to the women’s side.
At the camp most people were put to death right away. Life for those who weren’t could hardly be called life at all. Survivors⁷ say it is impossible to describe how awful it was. Margot and Anne were now separated from both their mother and father. The girls struggled to survive, but both came down with a sickness called typhus. They died in March of 1945.
In April, British soldiers arrived and freed everyone left alive in the camp. The war was over. Finally. But it was too late for Anne Frank.

TWO LEADERS
DURING WORLD WAR II, WINSTON CHURCHILL, THE PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, NOT ONLY WERE UNITED AGAINST THE GERMANS BUT BECAME CLOSE PERSONAL FRIENDS. ROOSEVELT WAS SERVING HIS THIRD TERM AS PRESIDENT WHEN THE UNITED STATES JOINED THE ALLIED FORCES AT THE END OF 1941. THAT HELPED TURN THE TIDE OF THE WAR. HE AND CHURCHILL MET SECRETLY TO COORDINATE⁸ THE ATTACKS AGAINST THEIR COMMON ENEMY. A VICTIM OF POLIO WHO WAS CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL PRESIDENTS. SADLY, HE DIED In APRIL OF 1945, ONLY MONTHS BEFORE THE WAR ENDED.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

1 allied   

adj.协约国的；同盟国的

参考例句：

• Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
• Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。

2 annex   

vt.兼并，吞并；n.附属建筑物

参考例句：

• It plans to annex an England company in order to enlarge the market.它计划兼并一家英国公司以扩大市场。
• The annex has been built on to the main building.主楼配建有附属的建筑物。

3 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

4 sneaked   

v.潜行( sneak的过去式和过去分词 )；偷偷溜走；（儿童向成人）打小报告；告状

参考例句：

• I sneaked up the stairs. 我蹑手蹑脚地上了楼。
• She sneaked a surreptitious glance at her watch. 她偷偷看了一眼手表。

5 Nazis   

n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

7 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

8 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。