The Diary of Anne Frank (play) Act 2, Scene 5 Summary

  • The gut-wrenching tale of what happened after Otto Frank and the others were arrested and sent to concentration camps is almost unbearable.
  • However, Mr. Frank relays that Anne was simply happy to be outside after being locked up for two years.
  • Miep and Mr. Kraler do their best in an extremely sad and awkward moment.
  • Miep tells him that the office thief was the one who sold them out.
  • She had been out to the country to get food, and when she returned, they'd already been captured.
  • She pours coffee and listens sadly as Otto relays what had happened after the capture.
  • Sent first to a camp in Holland and then to Auschwitz in Poland, the family was then separated in September.
  • Anne, her sister, and her mother were sent to Bergen-Belsen where Otto later learned from survivors who had known them that they had perished.
  • The Van Daans and Dussel met the same fate.
  • Otto was the only one rescued by the Allied forces who swept through France and other parts of Europe, but they came too late to save the rest of his family.
  • Anne's famous line re-echoes at the very end of the scene, and Otto voices what most of the audience members are feeling by the end—that a very special person's life was taken too early. Her belief in the goodness of people, even through a horrific time, is something to be admired.