Transcript Anne Frank

Anne Frank
A Voice in the
Darkness
Anne’s Birth
• Annelies Marie
Frank
• June 12, 1929
• Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
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baby Anne, a day after her
birth
Anne’s Family
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father: Otto Frank
mother: Edith Frank
Sister: Margot Frank
Jewish and German
Otto with Margot and Anne,
1931
Anne’s Diary
• gift for 13th birthday
• wrote entries as if
they were letters
• wrote short stories
• wrote down favorite
quotes in a notebook
• dreamed of becoming
a writer or journalist
after the war
Anne’s Hiding Place
• the Secret Annex (the
back part of the
building)
• the building is owned
by Otto Frank’s
company
• the entrance to the
Secret Annex is
concealed behind a
moveable bookcase
The Diary of Anne Frank
• genre: drama (tragedy)
• main character: Anne Frank
• setting: WWII
Amsterdam, Holland
• antagonist: Adolf Hitler
• actual diary: July 1942-August 1944
(25 months)
Act I
• flashback
--Scene 1 occurs in November 1945
(The war is over.)
--Scene 2 begins in July 1942
(The entire play is a flashback in time.)
The Fates of the Frank Women
• Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in
March of 1945.
• Margot Frank died of typhus shortly before her
sister Anne at Bergen-Belsen in March of 1945.
• Mrs. Edith Frank died of starvation and
exhaustion at Birkenau, the women’s sub-camp
of Auschwitz in January of 1945.
The Fate of Mr. Otto Frank
• Mr. Frank was
interned at Auschwitz
until the Russian
Army liberated the
camp in January of
1945. He returned to
Amsterdam in June of
1945. He died in
Switzerland in 1980 at
the age of 91.
The Fates of the Van Daans
• Mr. Van Daan (Hermann van Pels) died in the
gas chambers at Auschwitz shortly after his
arrival in September of 1944.
• Mrs. Van Daan (Auguste van Pels) died at
Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia in the spring
of 1945.
• Peter Van Daan (Peter van Pels) survived the
“death march” from Auschwitz to Mauthausen
but died in May of 1945, only three days before
the camp was liberated.
The Fates of the Others
• Mr. Dussel (Fritz Pfeffer) died at Neuengamme
in December of 1944. Mr. Dussel’s wife was a
Christian, so she did not have to go into hiding.
• Miep Gies continued to live in Amsterdam until
her death in January of 2010 at the age of 100.
• Mr. Kraler (Mr. Kugler) was arrested in 1944 but
escaped in 1945. He immigrated to Canada in
1955 and died in Toronto in 1981.
• Jan Gies (Miep’s husband) died in 1993.
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