1. Background information for The Diary of Anne Frank
The Holocaust:
Background information for The Diary of Anne Frank

2. Objectives To learn about the conditions during the Holocaust.
To have a better understanding about the situations of Anne Frank and her family.

3. Anne Frank
Born on June 12, 1929 Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced, with her family, to go in hiding from the Nazis. For 25 months, her family and others stayed above her fathers office. This entire time, Anne kept a diary and after her death in 1945, her father had her diary published. Today The Diary of Anne Frank is read by millions of people each year.

4. In May 1942, during World War 2, all Jews age six and older were required to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes to set them apart from non-Jews.

5. Adolf Hitler
The man responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews.

6. Children standing at a barb-wire fence at Auschwitz (a Nazis concentration camp).

7. Men standing behind a gate of Auschwitz

8. Barracks, the buildings and surrounding areas of the concentration camp at Trazebnia (a sub-camp of Auschwitz).

9. Women’s living space: no food, no water, no heat, no sanitary bathrooms.

10. Hundreds of pairs of shoes taken from the Jews when entering the concentration camps.

11. Bags and bales of hair shaved from every persons head when entering the concentration camps.

12. The room where some of the men were kept and left to starve and wait for death.

13. Over 6000 people waiting to be disinfected.

14. When entering the concentration camps, all clothing and hair were removed before disinfections.

15. American soldiers counting the dead people left in the concentration camp.

16. Burial sight of children.

17. End of World War 2 April 30th, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
May 7th, 1945, Germany surrenders and World War 2 ends.

18. The Holocaust Monument in Florida.

19. Sources