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Diary of Anne Frank characters and vocabulary

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Anne Frank
Young Jewish girl who kept a diary of her experiences during the Holocaust in World War II
Margot Frank
Anne's older sister
Otto Frank
Anne's father, practical and kind, Anne particularly likes him, only one who survived the war
Edith Frank
Mother of Anne Frank. She is kind, and caring but has a hard time relating to Anne
Mr. Van Daan
Constantly worries about food
Mrs. Van Daan
A pretty woman in her early forties who loves her fur coat, vain, and a complainer.
Peter Van Daan
A shy, awkward boy of sixteen
Albert Dussel
An elderly dentist who is invited to share the rooms in the annex with the Franks and the Van Daans.
Mr. Kugler
A man who helps hide the Franks in the annex
Bep Voskuijl
A worker in Otto Frank's office. She helps the family by serving as a liaison to the outside world.
Mr. Voskuijl
Bep's father
Miep Gies
A secretary at Otto's office who helps the Franks hide. After the Franks are arrested, she stows the diary away in a desk drawer and keeps it there, unread, until Otto's return in 1945. She died in 2010 at the age of 100
Jan Gies
Miep's husband
Hanneli
Anne's school friend. The Nazis arrest her early in the war.
Peter Schiff
The love of Anne's life from the sixth grade. Peter Schiff is a boy one year older than Anne. She has dreams about him while in the annex. Peter Schiff is also referred to as Peter Wessel.
Hello Silberberg
A boy with whom Anne has an innocent, though romantic relationship before she goes into hiding. He is also referred to as Harry Goldberg.
Anne's diary
enables her to examine her thoughts and feelings
Where did the Franks hide at?
A secret annex
Secret Annex
Hidden room where Anne Frank's family stayed
When did the Franks go into hiding?
July 6, 1942
When did Anne receive her diary?
Her 13th Birthday
When was Anne Frank born?
June 12, 1929
Why does Anne keep a diary?
I think it's her only friend/companion. She can write anything down. She calls it Kitty. (I can't remember if that is in the play or the book.)
How old is Margot?
16
How old is Anne?
13
Describe Mrs. Van Daan
She lacks humility possibly because her father always bought the best that money could buy and spoiled her. Anne finds Mrs. Van Daan to be annoying because she constantly flirts with her Dad, Mr. Frank.
Describe Mr. Van Daan and Peter's relationship.
Mr. Van Daan doesn't really pay that much attention to Peter and cares more about himself.
Jopie de Waal
Anne's best friend before she goes into hiding
Dirk
Miep's fiance
Allies
Britain, France, and Russia- Later joined by Italy
Anti-Semitism
Prejudice against Jews
Aryan
to the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a "master race"
Auschwitz
a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II
Babi Yar
A deep ravine outside the Ukrainian city of Kiev, where the Einsatzgruppen murdered and buried close to 34,000 Jews over the course of two days (September 29-30, 1941
Chelmno
The first death camp established in Poland.
Concentration Camp
an area where Jews and others were held during World War II and murdered by the Nazis
Death camps
camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany for the purpose of killing prisoners immediately.
deportation
The act of a government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrant's home country
Einsatzgruppen
Nazi strike forces that killed innocent Jews with their infamous "death squads"
Final solution
Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people
Genocide
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Gestapo
Hitler's secret police
Ghetto
A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
Holocaust
the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
Judenrat
Jewish council formed by Germans as a way to issue orders to Jews and administer Jewish affairs
Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany
Nazi
a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
National Socialist German Workers Party
(Nazi Party) was a far-right, racist political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945.
Nuremberg
A group of laws that robbed German Jews of their citizenship in 1935
Pogrom
an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.
SS
Nazi organization under Hitler that committed severe violence and hateful crimes
Shoah
Hebrew term for the Holocaust; meaning "catastrophe"
Swastika
the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich
Third Reich
The Third Republic of Germany which began Hitler's rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945
Wannsee Conference
A meeting in which the "Final solution" and use of concentration camps were decided in 1942, Heydrich was the chief executor of the "Final Solution". Held in Wannsee, Berlin
Yad Vashem
Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
Who built the revolving bookcase?
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