People

People

Use the provided links to gain important knowledge about the following people:

Anne Frank

Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived and died during the Holocaust. Anne and her family hid from the Nazis for two long years in a Secret Annex at the back of a warehouse. During that time, Anne kept a diary in which she not only wrote about the horrors of war but the everyday problems of being a teenager. Over fifty years after Anne's father published The Diary of Anne Frank, it is the world's best-known memoir of the Holocaust.

Directions: Read the article about Anne Frank and answer the following questions:

  1. Where and when was Anne born?

  2. Why did the Frank family move to Amsterdam, Netherlands?

  3. How is it that her diary survived and has gone on to be "translated into more than 70 languages and having sold more than 30 million copies"? Scroll Down

Anne Frank's Family

Directions: Read the following articles to learn more about Anne's family.


Father: Otto Frank

  1. Why does Otto Frank go to America in 1909?

  2. When the Germans forbid Jews from owning a business, what does Otto Frank do with his business?

  3. How does Miep Gies describe Mr. Frank?

Mother: Edith Frank

  1. How does being in hiding affect Anne's mother? (Click on "Gloomy in the Secret Annex")

  2. According to Otto Frank, what kind of mother was Edith Frank?

Sister Margot Frank

    1. How much older is Margot than Anne?

    2. What characteristics are used to describe Margot?

    3. What were Margot's future plans?

Other Occupants of the secret annex

In addition to the Franks, four other people hid from the Gestapo in the Annex.

Directions: Read the following articles to learn more about the others hiding in the Annex.

Based on what you have read about each of the other occupants, who would you get along with the best and why?

The Helpers

Without the help from the following people, the occupants of the Secret Annex would not have survived the 25 months they were in hiding.

"Miep looks like a pack mule. She goes out nearly everyday in search of vegetables, and then cycles back with her purchases in large shopping bags. She’s also the one who brings five library books with her every Saturday." Anne Frank July 11, 1943.


Why do you think these people (the helpers) put their own freedom and lives at risk to help the occupants of the Secret Annex?