1. The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
"Paper has more patience than people"
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
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2. Act I
Play begins in November Flashback: an interruption of the current chronological sequence of events to an earlier occurrence Miep saved Anne’s diary

3. “All’s fair in love and war.”
Anti-Jewish Laws: Jews were forbidden to: hold civil service(government) jobs attend non-Jewish schools marry non-Jews practice law or medicine own a business own a car or use public transportation be on the street between 8pm and 6am

4. “I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I’m free.”
All Jews were required to:
wear a yellow star
turn in their bicycles
do their shopping between 3 and 5 PM
go to only Jewish barber shops, markets, etc.
attend Jewish schools

5. “…but you have to make sacrifices for a good cause…if we can save even one of our friends, the rest doesn’t matter.”
Otto Frank: reliable, resourceful, fair, honest, compassionate, organized, leader
Otto gives an a diary for her 14th birthday. She names the diary Kitty.
Otto prepares a hiding place in the annex of his pectin business in Amsterdam

6. “I now know that courage and happiness are needed first!”
The Frank family goes into hiding in 1942 after Margot receives a call-up notice
Otto invites the Van Daan family to join them
Mrs. Van Daan: materialistic woman, brings a fur coat into hiding
Mr. Van Daan: selfish and greedy man, puts himself before all others

7. Anne: Immature, talkative, attention-seeking, rebellious
“It won’t do us or those outside any good if we continue to be as gloomy as we are now.”
Anne: Immature, talkative, attention-seeking, rebellious
Margot: Mature, refined, polite, compliant

8. “We were caught in a vicious circle of unpleasantness and sorrow.”
Always cautious
Crowded
Risk of being caught
No bathtubs
She lost her childhood, forced to grow up quickly
Food was scarce
Constant argument
Little or no activity
Dependent on outsiders for survival
Despite all these circumstances, the people living in the annex still tried to lead “normal” lives

9. “We’ve got to be reasonable about everything we do here.”
The Frank family in 1940
263 Prinsengracht - The Annex

10. Peter Van Daan is 16 years old. He is shy and keeps to himself.
“You can be lonely even when you’re loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s ‘one and only’.”
Anne was called “Mrs. Quack Quack” in school because she was so talkative
Peter Van Daan is 16 years old. He is shy and keeps to himself.
Anne describes Peter as “intolerable and insufferable.”

11. “God has not forsaken me, and He never will.”
Mr. Kraler asks the group to hide Mr. Dussel temporarily.
Mr. Dussel is a dentist. He is impatient and easily annoyed.
Anne and Dussel share a room which leads to fights over privacy.

12. “Leave me alone, let me have at least one night when I don’t cry myself to sleep with my eyes burning…all day long I hear nothing but what an exasperating child I am”

13. “Misfortunes never come singly.”
Mr. Van Daan steals food in the middle of the night
Anne screams in her sleep due to nightmares. She dreams the Gestapo captures her family and sends them a concentration camp.

14. Anne feels her mother treats her like a baby
“…it’s not easy being the badly brought-up center of attention of a family of nitpickers.”
Anne feels her mother treats her like a baby
Pim (Anne’s nickname for her father) is the only one who Anne feels truly understands her.

15. “…the end is nowhere in sight. As for us, we’re quite fortunate.”
Anne makes Hanukkah special by making gifts for everyone in the group
Anne gives her mother an I.O.U. that states she will do whatever her mom asks
The celebration is disrupted by a thief downstairs who steals a radio and a cash box.

16. “Oh, it’s hard to be strong and brave in every way.”
The people providing ration books are arrested
Mr. Kraler develops ulcers
Mouschi ran away
The helpers, from left to right: Mr. Kleiman, Miep Gies, Bep Voskuijl, and Mr. Kugler.

17. Act II begins on New Year’s Day and Miep brings a cake to the group
Mr. Van Daan sells his wife’s coat for cigarettes and shows his true character- selfish and inconsiderate
Mr. Kraler explains that a worker knows the group is hiding and blackmails Kraler.

18. “I sometimes wonder if anyone will ever understand what I mean...”
Peter’s feelings toward Anne have changed. He admires her ability to say what she feels. Anne and Peter have “dates” in Peter’s room
“Run the Gauntlet”: idiom that comes from 17th century punishment. Expose and inflict pain upon
Inferiority Complex: feeling like you aren’t good enough, lack of self-worth, self-doubt

19. “I…feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.”

20. “We don’t need the Nazis to destroy us. We are destroying ourselves.”
Mrs. Frank becomes enraged when she discovers Mr. Van Daan has been stealing food. She wants the Van Daan’s to leave.
Miep and Kraler visit: THE INVASION HAS BEGUN!
D-Day: allies invade the coast of France (Normandy)
General Eisenhower: 5 Star General and Supreme Commander of the allied forces in WWII. Later became President of USA
Sir Winston Churchill: Prime Minister of the UK

21. In Act II, Scene IV, the Gestapo come to raid the annex.
“I have more experience than most; I have experienced something almost no one my age ever has.”
In Act II, Scene IV, the Gestapo come to raid the annex.
Anne and the others are paralyzed with fear. They know this is the end of their time in hiding.

22. “Enough for today… yours, Anne M. Frank”
August 4th 1944 between 10:00 and 10:30 they arrested the 8 people hiding in the Annex
Margot and Anne Frank were transported from Auschwitz at the end of October and brought to Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp near Hannover
The Typhus epidemic that broke out in the concentration camp it the winter of killed Margot and few days later Anne.
Her approximate date of death is between late February and early March
The bodies of both girls were probably dumped in the Bergen-Belsen’s mass graves
The camp was liberated by British troops on April 12th 1945

23. Act II, Scene V returns to the present time of 1945.
“The most you can do is pray for God to perform a miracle and save at least some of them.”
Act II, Scene V returns to the present time of 1945.
Otto is the only survivor and feels that Anne’s unwavering optimism and faith in the human spirit “puts him to shame”