1. Contextualizing Memoirs with Anne Frank Kelly A. Watson 2012 Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators kwatson@hse.k12.in.us FJH Holocaust Memorial Garden Wearing Save Darfur Bands at FJH Indiana Voices Book Signing Darfur Rally with Eowyn, 2007

5. Student-Directed Presentations

6. Teaching History through the Memoirs You Teach

8. WWII/Frank Timeline Arrange photographs in order

9. Hitler Becomes German Chancellor January 30,1933 Otto Frank decides to relocate his family to the Netherlands.

10. Germany Invades Poland, Beginning WWII, September 1939

11. Germany Invades the Netherlands, May 1940 Anne receives a diary for her 13 th birthday June 12, 1942

12. German Anti-Jewish Laws are Passed in Amsterdam “…Jews must wear a yellow star. Jews must hand in their bicycles. Jews are banned from trams and are forbidden to drive…Jews must be indoors by eight…and cannot even sit in their own gardens after that hour. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and other places of entertainment…Our freedom was strictly limited. Yet things were still bearable.” Anne Frank June 20, 1942

13. Bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Anne and Margot removed from public school and begin at the Jewish Lyceum.

14. Frank and van Pels Families Move into the Annex July 1942

15. D-Day, June 6, 1944 Hope is revived within us; it gives us fresh courage, and makes us strong again…I may yet be able to go back to school in September or October. Yours, AnneTuesday, June 6, 1944

16. Discovery of the Annex August 4, 1944 “It was around ten-thirty. I was upstairs with the van Pelses in Peter’s room and I was helping him with his schoolwork. I was showing him the mistake in the dictation when suddenly someone came running up the stairs. The stairs were squeaking, I stood up, because it was still early in the morning and everyone was supposed to be quiet - then the door opened and a man was standing right in front of us with a gun in his hand and it was pointed at us.” Otto Frank

17. Liberation of Auschwitz January 1945 Otto Frank is liberated by the Russians on January 27 th.

18. Death of Margot and Anne Frank March 1945 Bergen-Belsen Liberated, April 1945

19. VE-Day May 8, 1945 Otto Frank returns to Amsterdam, June 1945, the only survivor

20. Dropping of the Atomic Bombs August 6 and 9, 1945

21. The Diary of Anne Frank First Published, 1947