Anne Frank Remembered Study Questions

Anne Frank Remembered Study Questions What role did Otto Frank have during World War I? - ✔✔He was an officer in the German army. When did Otto Frank live in the United States? - ✔✔From 1909 to 1911. What type of wor ...

Anne Frank Remembered Study Questions What role did Otto Frank have during World War I? - ✔✔He was an officer in the German army. When did Otto Frank live in the United States? - ✔✔From 1909 to 1911. What type of work did Otto Frank do in the United States? - ✔✔He worked at a Macy's in New York. Describe Otto Frank's marriage to Edith. When? Where? - ✔✔In 1925, at the age of 36, Otto married 25-year-old Edith near the Dutch border. The couple honeymooned in Italy and began a family in Amsterdam. Tell me about Anne Frank's dreams. - ✔✔Anne wanted to travel to Paris and Hollywood and become a journalist. In her diary, she mentions wanting to get her diary published after the war ended. Tell me about the difficulties in publishing Anne's diary. - ✔✔One of the first problems was exploiting the differences between languages. Then, when the diary was first published, it didn't have a big impact. Lastly, some Nazis claimed that the Holocaust never happened and, therefore, that the diary was a hoax. Who were the Gestapo? - ✔✔The Gestapo were the German police that were part of the Nazi party. When did the Gestapo discover the members of the Secret Annex? How did they find them? - ✔✔On August 4, 1944, they received an anonymous phone call that told them where the Franks were hiding. Describe Otto Frank's experience after he was arrested and taken to the concentration camp. - ✔✔Otto Frank was sent to Auschwitz and was the only survivor of the Secret Annex. Describe Albert Dussel's experience after he was arrested and taken to the concentration camp. - ✔✔Albert Dussel went to Auschwitz but was later sent to Neuengamme, the location of his death. Describe Mr. van Daan's experience after he was arrested and taken to the concentration camp. - ✔✔Mr. van Daan was sent to Auchwitz where he died a few weeks later in a gas chamber. He was the first of the Secret Annex to die. Describe Mrs. van Daan's experience after she was arrested and taken to the concentration camp. - ✔✔Mrs. van Daan was sent to Auschwitz and then later transferred to Bergen-Belsen. Describe Peter van Daan's experience after he was arrested and taken to the concentration camp. - ✔✔Peter was sent to Auschwitz. He was later taken to a death camp in Austria where he died on May 5, 1945. Describe Edith Frank's experience after she was arrested and taken to the concentration camp. - ✔✔Edith Frank was sent to Auschwitz. She stayed with Anne when she contracted Scabies, but she died on January 6, 1945 of starvation and influenza. Describe Margot Frank's experience after she was arrested and taken to the concentration camp. - ✔✔Margot Frank was originally sent to Auschwitz, but later she was transferred to BergenBelsen. She stayed with Anne when she contracted Scabies. Margot was subjected to the fierce wind due to their position in the barracks in Bergen-Belsen, and she died from Typhus. Describe Anne Frank's experience after she was arrested and taken to the concentration camp. - ✔✔Anne was also originally sent to Auschwitz but was later sent to Bergen-Belsen. She contracted Scabies and was subjected to the fierce wind due to their position in the Barracks in Bergen-Belsen. Anne also died from Typhus. When were Anne and Margot transferred to Bergen-Belsen? - ✔✔They were transferred on October 28, 1944. After liberation, where did Otto Frank live? What did he do? - ✔✔After the liberation, Otto lived in Holland. Later, he was placed on New Zealand merchant ship bound for France. In 1952, Otto remarried and moved to Switzerland; he responded to letters about diary, although he knew he never fully understood Anne. How has Anne gone on living after her death? - ✔✔Anne has lived through her diary. People read her story and she is remembered as a brave Jew. If she had known her father was alive after her sister died, she may have tried harder to survive. When did a stage adaptation of Anne's diary open on Broadway? - ✔✔In 1955. When did the Secret Annex open as a museum? - ✔✔In 1960. What are Peter van Daan's thoughts to being Jewish? About how he wishes to live after the war? - ✔✔In Anne's February 16, 1944 diary entry, she mentions that Peter "said life would have been much easier if he'd been a Christian or could become on after the war." This shows that Peter almost wishes he wasn't Jewish. The Jews were persecuted for their beliefs, which was completely unfair. Peter recognizes this, and it makes him very angry. Later in the same entry, Anne tells us he said that "after the war he'd make sure nobody would know he was Jewish," which tells us that Peter does not have much pride in his religion. He is and wants to continue to be a practicing Jew, but he would make sure no one knew he was Jewish because he was afraid of being persecuted. It shows us that after the war, Peter intended to keep his beliefs to himself so that he would not have to live in fear. What does Anne say about how her personality has changed after two years in hiding? - ✔✔Before going into hiding, Anne was very flirtatious and was always surrounded by a large group of friends and admirers. In the March 7, 1944 diary entry, Peter says to Anne, "Whenever I saw you, you were always surrounded by a flock of girls and at least two boys, you were always laughing, and you were always the center of attention!" At the beginning of her diary, Anne also mentions her admirers and how they always walked her home from school. After spending two years in hiding, Anne begins to realize that she wasn't really happy in her life prior to hiding. She states "I look back at that Anne Frank as a pleasant, amusing, but superficial girl, who has nothing to do with me." (March 7, 1944) Anne notes that she was never really being herself, and that she does not want that life back. Additionally, Anne says that "I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're all sincere?" This also proves that Anne does not miss her old life. She is satisfied with the person she has become after two years in hiding. Many of her so called friends from her life in 1942 were not friends but admirers. They were attracted to her because she was social, popular, and pretty. However, most of these people were not truly her friends. Anne longs for a true friend (which she later discovers in Peter), which, ultimately, is the reason she started her diary. Anne Frank speaks about happiness in one of her diary entries. What does she say about happiness? Where can happiness be found? What does this reveal about Anne Frank? - ✔✔Being in hiding for two years really gives Anne a new perspective on the world. She states throughout the diary that despite the fact that she is not thrilled with her situation, she realizes that other people have it worse off than she does, and she tries to stay positive. Towards the second half of her diary, Anne really begins to rely on nature and God to keep her spirits up. When the weather is good, she often says it makes her "perk up." On February 23, 1944, she says, "I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all those who suffer... As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more." This shows that Anne believes that nature will make anyone happy. She thinks that if people can just look at the sky and the trees and know that God is with them, they will realize that there is good in the world, and that will cheer them up. What does Anne Frank state about her future plans? Margot's future plans? In short, what do these young women wish to be when they grow up? - ✔✔On March 20, 1944 in a letter to Anne, Margot wrote, "I'm just sorry I haven't found anyone with whom to share my thoughts and feelings, and I'm not likely to in the near future." This tells us that Margot wants to find a friend or husband - someone she can trust and confide in the way Anne confided in Kitty. On March 22, 1944, Anne states, "All these jokes about marrying Peter if we stayed here long enough weren't so silly after all." This demonstrates that Anne is beginning to have stronger feelings for Peter, but she also thinks that if they do develop a relationship and stay in hiding for a really long time it might not be so ridiculous if they did end up getting married. She thinks that she might be stuck in hiding for a lot longer and is starting to explore the possibilities. On May 8, 1944, Anne says, "I'd like to spend a year in Paris and London learning the languages and studying art history. Compare that with Margot, who wants to nurse newborns in Palestine." Anne dreams of a future in the arts and traveling to different countries. Margot, on the other hand, wants to go into the medical field for a more pragmatic career. Anne believes people are, by nature, good at heart. Why would she believe this? - ✔✔Anne grew up during one of the darkest times in the history of the world. While she was in hiding, she had to live in constant fear of being discovered by the Nazis and killed (which, unfortunately, is what happened). The Nazis were cruel people who rarely gave any thought to how the Jews felt. By believing that people are good at heart, Anne believed that the Nazis were not so cruel as they seemed. She knew about concentration camps and death marches, however, she never experienced these things until the end of her life. Because of this opinion, Anne had a positive outlook on life. If she had been constantly pessimistic, she would not have had a good life because she would have lived in fear and unhappiness. In order to stay positive, Anne chose to believe that people are good at heart; this positivity enabled her to lead a happy, normal (for the time period) life until she was forced to go into hiding. One can state that Anne Frank was an early feminist. What evidence is there in the diary that would indicate that Anne Frank was considered an early feminist? - ✔✔On June 13, 1944, Anne states that "One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be inferior to men... I'd really like to know the reason for this great injustice." She doesn't understand why women are considered to be "less" than men or why men are always treated better. Although the concept of feminism was not around at the time Anne wrote her diary, women, including Anne, did wonder why they were inferior to men. Anne does not like being viewed as the lesser gender, which indicated that she could have been an early feminist. Who is Mr. van Hoeven? What happens to him? How does this effect the members of the Secret Annex? - ✔✔Mr. van Hoeven was the man who supplied potatoes for the people in the Secret Annex. He was arrested and sent to Neuengamme (a concentration camp) for hiding two Jews in his house. On May 25, 1944, Anne wrote, "Mother says we'll skip breakfast, eat hot cereal and bread for lunch, and fried potatoes for dinner, and, if possible, vegetables or lettuce once or twice a week... We're going to be hungry, but nothing's worse than being caught." Because of Mr. van Hoeven's arrest, the members of the Secret Annex will not be able to have three meals a day, which will no doubt result in a cranky family.