A | B |
May 12, 1889 | Otto Frank born |
Where was Otto Frank born? | Frankfurt, Germany |
1900 | Edith Hollander Frank born |
Where was Mrs. Frank born? | Aachen, Germany |
1925 | Anne's parents marry |
Where do the Franks settle when they marry? | Frankfurt, Germany |
1908-1909 | Otto Frank works in New York City at Macy's |
1914-1918 | Otto Frank serves in the German army during WWI |
June 12, 1929 | Anne Frank born |
Where was Anne born? | Frankfurt, Germany |
1933 | Franks move to Amsterdam |
June 12, 1942 | Anne receives a diary for her birthday |
July 1942 | Margot receives a call to report to a transit camp |
July 6, 1942 | Franks move into the Secret Annexe |
August 4, 1944 | Franks are arrested |
Where are the Franks taken after they are arrested? | Westerbok |
Where is Westerbok? | Holland |
What type of camp is Westerbok? | transit |
September 2, 1944 | Anne and others sent to Auschwitz |
October 30, 1944 | Anne and Margot sent to Bergen-Belsen |
January 6, 1945 | Edith Frank dies at Auschwitz |
January 7, 1945 | Auschwitz liberated; Otto survives |
March 1945 | Margot dies of thyphus in Bergen-Belsen |
April 1945 | Anne dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen |
Dachau | a concentration camp built for medical experiments on living victims. It was 10 miles outside of Munich |
Facism | a doctrine which promotes strong national loyalty and military force to gain and retain power. The individual is subservient to the state in this totalitarian government. |
Allies | The nations, including the US, Britain, free France, and the Soviet Union, who joined to fight in WWII against Germany, Italy, Japan, and other Axis nations |
Anti-semitism | hostility to Jews |
Aryan | non-Jewish, Nordic type German thought to be superior |
Auschwitz | Concentration and extermination camp in upper Silesia, Poland. |
When was Auschwitz established? | 1940 |
Eva Braun | Hitler's mistress |
BBC | British Broadcasting Company |
How did Queen Wilhelmena use the BBC? | Radio Orange to communicate with occupied countries |
Blitzkrieg | lightning war |
emigrate | to more from one's own country to live in another |
ghetto | the part of a city where Jews were forced to live |
guerilla | an independent fighter in a war who is not part of the regular army |
infantry | soldiers trained to fight on the ground or on foot |
martial law | during a time of war or trouble when soldiers and military authorities might rule a country |
NSB | a Dutch Nazi |
pogrom | an organized and often officially approved attack on a minority group |
Stuka | a German bomber |
symbol of the Jewish faith | Star of David |
bicker | argue, quarrel |
analytical | examining carefully each part of a thing or situation |
contagion | a disease that can be transmitted by direct or indirect contact |
delouse | to remove lice |
demise | death |
Gypsy | a member of a wandering tribe of people who probably came originally from India |
Kapos | prisoners of concentration camps who agreed to supervise other prisoners inside the camps |
typhus | often fatal infectious disease spread by fleas and lice |
typhoid fever | often fatal infectious disease spread by contaminated food |
Pim | Anne's father |
Kitty | Anne's diary |
Albert Dussel | dentist |
Anne received her diary | for her 13th birthday |
Gestapo | German Secret Police |
Why doesn't Mr. Dussel's wife join them in hiding? | She is not Jewish |
The day the Allied troops land in France | D Day |
Who eventually publishes Anne's diary? | her father |
Who finds Anne's diary? | Miep |
What friend of Anne's shows up in one of her dreams? | Hanneli |
What does Anne want to be when she grows up? | writer/journalist |
What are ration coupons used for? | buying food and supplies |
A secretary who helped to hide the Franks | Bep |
By the conclusion of the diary, Anne believes that people are fundamentally | good |
The Franks move to their Secret Annexe because who was summoned by the Nazis to be sent to a concentration camp? | Margot |
What does Mrs. Van Daan have to sell in order to raise money for food? | fur coat |
With whom does Anne strike up a special friendship while in hiding? | Peter |
How old is Anne when she writes her last diary entry? | 15 |
Who regularly says, “I wouldn’t put up with it if Anne were my daughter?” | Mrs. Van Daan |
Who says, ‘If we can save someone, then everything else is of secondary importance?” | Otto |