By the third year of the war, everyone in the fighting countries was experiencing shortage and hardships of all kinds, Hitler ensured that food and other necessities were difficult to obtain. As the fighting progressed, people came to realize that many of there loved one's, already gone for a long time, would not return. In Holland, the strikes that Anne mentions are a sure sign that morale was low among her people. Within this environment, faced with the realization that she is hated for being who she is; Anne begins to question her identity. She finds it difficult to understand why the Jews were being singled out, and she is forced to face the fact that although she considers herself to be German, her German citizenship has been revoked, and although she calls Holland her home, many of the citizens had turned against the Jews. Anne fells a great unity with her persecuted people, and yet at the same time, she wants to be seen as an individual rather than a member of a persecuted group. Over the two years recorded in her diary, Anne must deal with the already complicated and difficult issues of growing up in the unimaginably more complex and brutal circumstances of the holocaust. Her diary describes a struggle to define herself within this brutality. The families resigned in the Amsterdam warehouse for two years. During those two years with Anne's unusual insight, she reveals the relations between eight people living under extraordinary conditions: complete estrangement from the outside world, and above all, the boredom, the petty misunderstandings and the frustrations of living under such unbearable strains. It is obvious that the Jews were being deprived of their human rights physically and mentally along with being treated as prisoners in their own country. Emotionally, during her time in the annex, Anne experiences various highs and lows. She suffers from depression and is forced, by her circumstances, to cover up what is going on within her from the others around her.
