1. Anne Frank
A Voice in the Darkness

3. baby Anne, a day after her birth
Anne’s Birth
Annelies Marie Frank
June 12, 1929
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
annefrank.org
baby Anne, a day after her birth

4. Otto with Margot and Anne, 1931
Anne’s Family
father: Otto Frank
mother: Edith Frank
Sister: Margot Frank
Jewish and German
Otto with Margot and Anne, 1931

5. Anne’s Diary gift for 13th birthday
wrote entries as if they were letters
wrote short stories
wrote down favorite quotes in a notebook
dreamed of becoming a writer or journalist after the war

6. Anne’s Hiding Place the Secret Annex (the back part of the building)
the building is owned by Otto Frank’s company
the entrance to the Secret Annex is concealed behind a moveable bookcase

7. The Diary of Anne Frank genre: drama (tragedy)
main character: Anne Frank
setting: WWII
Amsterdam, Holland
antagonist: Adolf Hitler
actual diary: July 1942-August 1944
(25 months)

8. Act I flashback --Scene 1 occurs in November 1945 (The war is over.)
--Scene 2 begins in July 1942
(The entire play is a flashback in time.)

9. The Fates of the Frank Women
Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in March of 1945.
Margot Frank died of typhus shortly before her sister Anne at Bergen-Belsen in March of 1945.
Mrs. Edith Frank died of starvation and exhaustion at Birkenau, the women’s sub-camp of Auschwitz in January of 1945.

10. The Fate of Mr. Otto Frank
Mr. Frank was interned at Auschwitz until the Russian Army liberated the camp in January of He returned to Amsterdam in June of He died in Switzerland in 1980 at the age of 91.

11. The Fates of the Van Daans
Mr. Van Daan (Hermann van Pels) died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz shortly after his arrival in September of 1944.
Mrs. Van Daan (Auguste van Pels) died at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1945.
Peter Van Daan (Peter van Pels) survived the “death march” from Auschwitz to Mauthausen but died in May of 1945, only three days before the camp was liberated.

12. The Fates of the Others
Mr. Dussel (Fritz Pfeffer) died at Neuengamme in December of Mr. Dussel’s wife was a Christian, so she did not have to go into hiding.
Miep Gies continued to live in Amsterdam until her death in January of 2010 at the age of 100.
Mr. Kraler (Mr. Kugler) was arrested in 1944 but escaped in He immigrated to Canada in 1955 and died in Toronto in 1981.
Jan Gies (Miep’s husband) died in 1993.