Anne Frank
A Timeline Adventure
Introduction
After reading The Diary of Anne Frank (play form by: Frances Goodrich and
Albert Hackett), you will be ready to embark on your time travel adventure.
You are a new researcher for a new museum display. Your assignment is to travel
through time to report on Anne Frank's life, and the Holocaust experience.
You will have two weeks (present time) to complete your journey. The Time
Traveler machine is already set with the necessary coordinates.... Be sure
to become familiar with the task before you embark...Good Luck!
Task Description
Your time travel journey will take you through the places, meet the people,
or experience the horrors that Anne Frank and the other Secret Annex residents
witnessed and were involved with. For each task you will record your thoughts,
eye witness accounts, and pictures that you have taken in your own travel
diary, which will be published, when (or if) you return, as the actual magazine
article. This will be developed for new display at a museem; the creators
have already posed questions for you that need to be investigated, answered,
and recorded in your diary. Other probing questions will require you to reflect
on your own thoughts and feelings about the places and people that are affected
by this war. You should copy and paste each of the questions onto a works
document, then answer all questions completely and carefully. Remember that
"picures are worth 1000 words."
After completing the journal, students need to display their findings onto a piece of poster board in a interesting and inviting display much like one found in a museum.
If you are ready, the time machine is set to take you to complete your journey. When you want to begin, there is a button at your fingertips that will whisk you away to the next coordinate. Only use this button when you are ready to leave, or if you get into any trouble...Buckle your safety belt....here we go...!
TASK AT HAND:
The World of Anne
Frank
Time Travel Coordinates: 1942-1945
If you are reading this then you have been successfully transported to Amsterdam
in the year 1942, when Anne Frank and her family move into the Secret Annex.
Have your journal and camera ready to answer these questions. There are resources
at the bottom of the page, and you may need to transport yourself back and
forth through time to answer some of these questions. Try to be inconspicuous
as possible since you don't want to alert the Nazis...
I. WHO IS ANNE FRANK?--Pictures could be pasted into
your journal to best answer some questions...
*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.
* Who are the other members of her family (names, general ages)? What do they
look like? How does the Frank family treat each other?
* Who were the other people who lived in the Secret Annex? What do they look
like?
* Which member of the Secret Annex survives?
* Who finds the diary after Anne's capture?
* What eventually happens to Anne and the other members of the Secret Annex?
* What would it be like to hide in the Secret Annex? What would you bring?
What would you miss? What would the constant threat and fear do to you?
II. Remember Our Faces: The Holocaust---
If you are reading this then your next time transport has been a success. You are now going to acquire information on the history of the Holocaust: why, where and how it begins, and what happens to the people who are a part of it all. Anne Frank and the Secret Annex residents are victims of the Holocaust, yet only reflect a fraction of what happened to the Jews and others during the Holocaust. Again, to complete these questions you may have to jump back and forth between time coordinates.
*What
is the Holocaust?
*What are the problems in Germany between WWI and WWII?
* How did these problems give
rise to Hitler and the Nazis, and then the following persecution of Jews and
political opponents?
* What is it about Hitler that makes
him so powerful? (A picture would be great!)
* Why are the Jews used as scapegoats
by Hitler and the Nazis?
* Who are the Allies? Who are the Axis?
Who are the leaders of each country?
* 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?
* How many Jews are killed or subsequently
die from the result of the Nazis?
* Who is excluded from Hitler's "Master
Race" and what are his plans for them?
* How would you feel if you are not
a part of this "Master Race"?
Now that you have finished these questions, you are ready to take the next time leap....scroll down to "III" when you feel fully prepared to experience the death camp known as Auschwitz...
Welcome to Auschwitz. This is a view of some of the prison cells. A former prisoner who saw this picture was surprised by the lush grass saying, "we would have eaten it all."
III. Experiencing Auschwitz ---
You many not have heard of Auschwitz before, but after
your tour here, you will never forget it. After Anne Frank and the Secret
Annex residents were captured, they were all arrested and sent to different
"work" camps. Anne and Margot were sent to Auschwitz. You will be
transported to a time in which Auschwitz has been abandoned, and is now a
memorial to all the people who suffered or died there. Because of the extreme
nature of the atrocities that went on, a direct time transfer to Auschwitz
during WWII would be inappropriate, but you will get the main idea nonetheless.
This would be a great time to take pictures and to document what you see.
Refer to the coordinate sites below.....
Describing Auschwitz:
*Who was sent there?
*How are the prisoners treated? What are the conditions of the camp like? (climate, food, clothing, labor, etc.).
*Highlight the main rooms
and buildings of the camp and describe what went on there. Lots of details
are needed here since historians need to see what you are seeing and feel
what you are feeling, and thereby perhaps understand what Anne and her sister
experienced.
*
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?
*How
did you feel when you saw the gas chambers? When you saw the Crematorium?
*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
here, and if she still had her diary, what do you think she would say?
*If you were sent to Auschwitz, what would you do in order to survive and keep up your morale?
Although the tragic aspects of the Holocuast have been explored here, there are also stories of hope and courage during the Holocaust that are shared in the next time leap. Scroll down to IV when you are ready.......
Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Jan Gies, Bep Voskuijiil Oskar Schindler Raoul Wallenberg
IV. Holocaust Heroes ---
The men and women who helped feed and hide Anne Frank and the
Secret Annex residents were part of a large resistance to the systematic persecution
and killing of Jews and other Nazi enemies. Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler,
Jan and Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijil all helped in the hiding and care taking
of Anne and the others. Yet because of their selflessness, they risked suffering
the same fate as the people they sought to help. Heroic acts such as these
were repeated during the Holocaust era, and their stories deserve to be heard.
Using the time machine coordinates, you are now going to meet the people who
helped to save Jews and others from death. Feel free to discuss more
than the required questions below.....
* Who is Oskar Schindler and how did he help save
lives? What does it mean to be on his list? ·
*Who is Raoul Wallenberg and why is he so famous?
*How do Consul Chiune Suguhara and his wife Yukiko save the lives of thousands of Jews? ·
*How did Christian churches help hide Jews?
*Name another hero of the holocaust and relate how he or she saves lives or helps in theresistance to the Nazis.
*Are Anne and the other Secret Annex residents heroes in their own way? Why or why not.
*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?
Oskar
Schindler
Oskar
Schindler Letter
Profiles
of Rescuers
V. Children
of the Holocaust .........................
In a dream last night you heard a voice. A voice of a child said "Remember me, remember me please, I should not be forgotten, I do not want to be just a number" This well may have been spoken by a child of the Holocaust. Let's find out more about the children of the Holocaust and those who tried to help them.
Over one million children under the age of sixteen died in the Holocaust - plucked from their homes and stripped of their childhoods, they lived and died during the dark years of the Holocaust and were victims of the Nazi regime ...
*Choose one child that you are going to adopt to remember.
*Read and take notes about that child in your journal.
*Create a 8 1/2 x 11" memory tile that will inform other about "your child." Remember that sometimes pictures and symbols speak more clearly than words. Write a poem, eulogy or tribute to that child.
According to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum full statistics for the tragic fate of children who died during the Holocaust will never be known. Some estimates range as high as 1.5 million murdered children. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of institutionalized handicapped children who were murdered under Nazi rule in Germany and occupied Europe.