Anne Frank



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Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
Questions about the life of a young girl during the holocaust.

Anne Frank project:

Who is Anne frank?

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How old is Anne when she first goes to the Secret Annex and how old is she when she comes out? What does she look like? Describe her personality

Anne Frank is 13 when she goes into hiding.  She is 15 when she is captured by the Nazis and taken to a death camp.  She was skinny with brown eyes and long thick brown hair. She is annoying and really hyper and never takes anything seriously when she goes in but when she comes out she has matured quite a bit.

 

Who finds the diary after Anne's capture? Miep Gies finds Annes diary in the secret annex.

 

 

Which member of the Secret Annex survives? Annes father, Otto Frank survives.

 

 

 

 

Who were the other people who lived in the Secret Annex? What do they look like? There  Was Mr. Hermann Van Daan (Van Pels), who was Tall and fairly bald with brown eyes and a big nose , Mrs. Auguste Van Daan (Van Pels) who was short with black hair and  light brown eyes and rather annoying , Margot who resembled Anne quite a bit, she had thick brown hair and brown eyes, she was very thin and had glasses , Pim  ( her father, Otto Frank) who was tall, thin and bald with a thick grey moustache, Her mother, Edith Frank who had brown hair and eyes and very `handsome ` ,Peter Van Daan (Van Pels), a tall, skinny, gawky, shy sixteen year old boy with short brown hair and dark brown eyes and muschi, Peters cat.

 

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· What rights are taken away from the Jews by the Nazis? How are they persecuted and restricted, and what are the kinds of things done to them? They are not allowed to walk on the right side of the street, go to Christian shops, visit Christians, own bicycles, be out after 8 PM, go to Christian schools, go to public places such as swimming pools and sports fields or go out without a prominently displayed 6 pointed star on their clothing. If these laws are not obeyed they were arrested or killed. They were sent to concentration camps and killed in astonishing numbers, treated like animals, starved, tortured and ridiculed. Jews lived awful lives.

 

 

· How many Jews are killed or subsequently die from the result of the Nazis? Roughly 6 million Jews are killed by the Nazis.

 

 

·Who is excluded from Hitler's "Master Race" and what are his plans for them?  Anyone who isnt a white Christian (and more specifically blond haired blue eyed white Christians) therefore black people, Asian people, non-Christians, Jewish people, homosexuals, Gypsies and people with disabilities were sterilized, sent to concentration camps and/or killed.

 

 

· How would you feel if you are not a part of this "Master Race"? I would feel like i was something that was not supposed to happen, a mistake. I would feel like I was a flaw in the population  of Europe. I would begin to feel like death was something I deserved because everyone told me how awful I was.

 

 

· What is it about Hitler that makes him so powerful? (A picture would be great!)  He promised to strengthen the weak economy. There were no jobs and he promised them better lives. He convinced them that he would help them all and perfect Germany.

 

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· In a sensory way, describe Auschwitz:

Dear readers,

I will describe the awful conditions of Auschwitz, a concentration camp during the holocaust. Anyone who is excluded from Hitlers Master Race gets sent to Auschwitz, a German death camp in Poland. The treatment of the prisoners is atrocious. They are treated worse than animals. They were being killed in mass numbers every day. They watched their loved ones die from illness or torture.. They would not feed them and make them work very hard. They would humiliate them and be very cruel. They are usually naked but what few pieces of clothing they owned were ripped and dirty and covered in lice and fleas. The summer days were long and hot and the naked backs of the prisoners scorched in the sun. the winters were freezing and many froze to death or died of pneumonia. In the camp there are the stone reminders of where many people lost their lives during world war ll. They had very small barracks to house many people. The beds were like shelves and they had no possessions. The courtyard was muddy and bare. There was no grass because the prisoners would have eaten it in order to stay alive. There were the gas chambers which were just small rooms with little holes to let the poison gas in.

 

· What is the Auschwitz "saying" which is cast in iron for all to see? How is the saying a cruel irony for the prisoners there? It says : Arbeit Macht Frei which in English means Work makes one free. It is cruel irony because they are prisoners and all they do is work and it doesnt make them free. They are there and captives of those who made that saying, as if they work as hard as them and they are free.

 

 

 

· How did you feel when you saw the gas chambers? When you saw the Crematorium?

It was awful the gas chambers were small and they had signs on the doors warning you of dangerous gas and by entering you were endangering your life as if to taunt the prisoners being forced to enter. The Crematorium was even worse. It was a large furnace just large enough to fit a body where people were just shoved in and burned.

 

· After reading Anne's diary you realize that now her greatest fears have come true, as you look at the horrible truths around you. How do you think she held up there and if she still had her diary, what do you think she would say? I think that she would start to lose her sanity. She would talk about how miserable it was living in a place like that while the white Christians sat at home and enjoyed their lives.

 

 

· If you were sent to Auschwitz, what would you do in order to survive and keep up your morale? I would try to pretend that it was just a long nightmare and that I would wake up and see my family in the morning.

 

 

 

 

 

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· Are Anne and the other Secret Annex residents heroes in their own way? Why or why not. Yes, because they went through so much, knowing that any day could be their last, that their friends and family were dying, that they might never come out of hiding, that they might be caught and killed, and yet, somehow, they managed to live a semi-normal life and maintain their sanity which is a lot to say for someone who has to try to live a normal life with the shadow of death in the back of their mind.

 

· How did Christian churches help hide Jews? They found Christian families to hide them and get them provisions. They put themselves in a lot of danger in doing this because anyone could refuse and tell the Nazis and the church could be burned down.

 

· Who is Raoul Wallenberg and why is he so famous? He was a neutral Swedish diplomat who had convinced the Swedish government to give 20,000 Jews immigration papers. He kept them in Swedish protected buildings that the Nazis could not invade and he hopped onto deportation trains and handed out passes and demanded that they be let off the trains. He also warned the Nazis who were planning to invade the Jewish ghetto and kill its 115,00 inhabitants that if they did, they would be tried as war criminals. The ghetto was left alone. He saved so many Jews during the war and put himself into great danger. He was a hero.

 

· Who is Oskar Schindler and how did he help save lives? What does it mean to be on his list? Oskar Schindler was a rich young catholic but lived a life of sin. He had a wife but a few mistresses as well, he was a gambler, an alcoholic and never missed a chance to make money. He had many Jewish  slaves in Poland and exploited them for cheap labor. But somewhere throughout the time of the war something changed, he had become quite rich but by the end of the war he had spent all of his money on keeping 1,200 Jewish people alive. His list was composed of those 1,200 Jews that he needed to work in his factory and saved them from death camps. He used blackmail, bribery and lying to save them but now there are 6,000 descendants of the Jews he saved living in Europe and The U.S. 

 

· Would you help to hide Jews if faced with the choice? Why or why not? What other ways would you have helped the Jews and other people being persecuted under the Nazi Regime? Yes I would have. Everyone is the same except they have different beliefs and look different that doesnt mean they are different than us. I wouldnt be able to stand knowing that people just like me everywhere were dying because someone had convinced everyone that they were bad. I would have tried to smuggle them out of the country and send them to places where they would not be noticed. I do not think that anyone deserved the treatment they received. The only thing that kept them sane was probably the hope to stay alive and I think that it is so cruel to do that to your own people.


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