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“Remembering Anne Frank”

More than 50 years ago, 13-year-old Jewish girl named Anne Frank
hid with her family in an attic above her father's offices in the
Netherlands. Outside, she could often hear the rattle of gunfire. At any
moment, Nazi police could come through the door and take her and her
family away to be killed. Anne's only escape from her hard reality was a
diary she had been given for her 13th birthday. Almost every day for two
years, Anne would pour out her feelings in the little book. She confided in
it, as though it were her best friend. When she started writing her diary, she had no idea that someday it
would become a piece of history--and an inspiration to millions of readers around the world.

Anne was born on 12th June 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Her father was called Otto and her mother was called Edith. She had an older sister called Margot.
Anne’s family were ‘liberal Jews’. They didn’t live in a Jewish-only community and they didn’t strictly
follow all of the Jewish customs.
Following the elections in Germany of 1933, which were won by the Nazi Party (led by Adolf Hitler), the
Franks moved to Amsterdam in order to escape the antisemitic (anti-Jewish) feelings that were being
promoted by the Nazis.
In Amsterdam, Anne started to develop a love of reading and writing.
In May 1940, the Netherlands was invaded by Germany. Laws were made to discriminate against the Jewish
population. Anne and her sister had to leave the school they were attending and transfer to a Jewish-only
school. Anne’s father, Otto, had to transfer his shares in the companies he owned to Johannes Kleiman (a
non-Jewish Dutch citizen), to avoid having his businesses confiscated.
Anne celebrated her 13th birthday on 12th June 1942. One of her presents was a red and white autograph
book. Anne decided to use it as a diary, and she started to write in it straight away. Many of her early entries
are focused on the everyday things that happened in her life, but she does discuss how the German
occupation of the Netherlands had a severe impact on her.
We know from her diary that Anne wanted to be an actress when she grew up, but she was unable to go to
the cinema to see films because Jews were not allowed to enter movie theatres.
In July 1942, Margot, Anne’s sister, was ordered to go to a labour camp. Anne’s father, Otto, wasn’t
prepared to allow this to happen, so he came up with a plan to hide his family in Amsterdam. On 6th July the
Franks went into hiding in some rooms attached to one of Otto’s companies on a street called Prinsengracht.
He was relying upon his employees to help the family survive.
Anne had to leave her cat, Moortje, behind.
Four of Otto’s employees – Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl – along with Jan
Gies and Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, were the only people who knew that the Franks were hiding in the
rooms. They became the Franks ‘helpers’ and were their only link to the outside world. Others were told that
the family had fled to Switzerland.
On 13th July the Franks were joined in their hiding place by the van Pels family.
On 4th August 1944 the Franks hiding place was discovered by German police. Nobody knows how the
police got the information about the hiding place.
The Franks and van Pels were interrogated and then transported to the Westerbork transit camp.
Victor Kugler and Johnnes Kleiman (two of the helpers) were arrested. Kleiman was eventually released.
Miep Gies was question but was never arrested. She went to the Franks hiding place and gathered up all of
Anne’s papers and her diary. She was intending to return them to Anne after the war.
On 3rd September 1944 the Franks were part of the last group to be transported from Westerbork to the
concentration camp at Auschwitz. When the transport arrived, Otto was separated from the female members
of his family. Anne, her mother and her sister were used as slave labour to haul rocks and dig rolls of turf.
Anne would have had her head shaved and she would have been tattooed with an identity number.
Anne, Margot and Edith all became very ill. They were transferred to the infirmary. Anne and Margot were
then moved to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Edith, Anne’s mother, was forced to stay behind and
she died of starvation.
In March many of the prisoners in Bergen-Belsen contracted typhus. Both Margot and Anne died and they
were buried in an unmarked mass grave.
Otto Frank survived his imprisonment in Auschwitz. He returned to Amsterdam after the war and tried to
discover what had happened to the other members of his family. He soon learned that they had died.
Facts About Anne Frank’s Diary
Miep Gies gave Anne’s diary to Otto.
Anne’s diary was first published in the Netherlands in 1947 and was published in Germany and France in
1950. It was published in the UK and US in 1952 and it’s title was Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Anne Frank’s dairy continues to be published today.

“Remembering Anne Frank” Reading Comprehension

& Writing
Answer these questions once you’ve read the text.
Use your own words and do not copy sentences from the
text.
1.What was Anne’s nationality?

2. List the members of the Frank’s family.

3. What religion were Anne and her family? Were they very strict in religious stuff?

4. Why did the Franks move to the Netherlands?

5. Now you cannot attend school. What happened to Anne and her sister from May 1940?

6. How old was Anne when she began her diary? What did she write about then?

7. What was Anne’s dreamed profession?

8. Why did the Franks go into hiding? Where did they go?

9.Who was the only one that didn’t go into hiding? Can you think of any reason?

10.Where did the family’s neighbours think they had travelled ?

11. How long were the Franks in hiding?

12.Who was into hiding with them?

13. When, where, and how did Anne die?

14. Who is Miep Gies and what was her role in and after this tragedy?

15. Who was the only occupant of the annex to survive concentration camps?

16. List an interesting fact about the publication of Anne’s diary.

15. List 10 words (English and translation) you find important or you needed to look up in a
dictionary.

CONFINED 2 ANNE vs. YOU

ANNE IN CONFINEMENT (base your answers on the text in Task 1 / the internet)
Age at the time of hiding: ____________
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YOU AND CONFINEMENT
Age at the time of hiding: ____________
Reason for hiding : _________________________________________________________________
Five facts about the enemy: https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1

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HEROES & VILLAINS
ANNE FRANK https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters
OUTSIDE HELPERS ( HEROES) : WHO ,WHAT THEY DID,WHY

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CONFINED 3 THE HIDING

PLACE Anne and the others went into hiding at Prinsengracht 263, which consisted of a main house
and an annex.
Instructions: Take a tour to the secret annex and visit the assigned rooms. Answer the questions using

your own words.

click on it to read click on it to change room move to see the complete room

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/

1 WHICH ROOM WAS … ? Number the rooms.

THE ATTIC ….. OTTO,EDITH & MARGOT’S ROOM …..
THE BOOKCASE & ENTRANCE ….. THE VAN PELS ROOM …..
THE TOILET….. PETER VAN PEL’S ROOM …..
ANNE & FRITZ PFEFFER ‘S ROOM ….. THE OFFICE KITCHEN & TOILET …..

1 THE ATTIC
1 What was so special about the attic window?
2 What did the rest of the people use this place for?
3 What made almost impossible to use the attic as a sleeping room?
4 Is there a place in your hiding place where you can really “hide” and be alone?

2 THE TOILET

1 Why was there a dangerous half hour for the use of the toilet?

3 THE KITCHEN OFFICE & TOILET

1 When did the people hiding use to take a bath?

2 What did they use the Kitchen office & toilet for?

4 THE ENTRANCE AND THE BOOKCASE

1 What type of bookcase was it?
2 Who built it?
3 What covered it?
4 The entrance was approached twice. Who was it “approached” by?

5 ROOM OF THE VAN PELS FAMILY

1 As you can see, this room was the sitting and dining room, too.
There’s a board game on the table.
What’s its name? What is it about?
Who brought the game there? What did they celebrate on 8 November 1942?

2 Are you playing board games or any other types of games with your family these
days?

6 ANNE & FRITZ PFEFFER ‘S ROOM

1 Describe in detail what you see in the room

2 How did Anne decorate her room?
3 How is your room decorated?
4 Who was Fritz Pfeffer?
5 What was Anne and Fritz’s relationship like? Why did they “fight” for the desk?
6 Who do you share your room with? Do you also “fight”?

CONFINED 4 ROUTINES
Anne Frank spent 761 days in the Secret Annex. Although each day was different from the last, there
was a certain rhythm to life in the Secret Annex.
Fill in their timetable and activities using the present simple
Monday-Saturday
6:45
7:00
8:30-9:00
9:00-12:30
1:00 pm
1:15 pm
2:00-4:00 pm
4:00 pm
5:45 pm-9:00 pm
Around 9:00 pm

SUNDAY
1What did Fritz like doing for fifteen minutes?
2Name three examples of housework they did on Sundays
3What time was breakfast?
4What did they do before the siesta?
5What was Sunday the most miserable day of the week for Anne?

Write about YOUR ROUTINE DURING CONFINEMENT

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