1. After the play- What was the fate of the characters? The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

2. The Capture Miep Gies was questioned and threatened by the Security Police. Gies attempted to save the Franks, van Pelses, and Dr. Pfeffer by confronting the officer who arrested the annex occupants and offering him money to intervene, but he refused. On August 4, 1944, the Secret Annex was discovered by the Security Police following a tip- off from an informer who was never identified. The Franks, van Pelses (Danns) and Pfeffer (Dussel) were taken to Westerbork, a transit camp. Having been arrested in hiding, they were considered criminals so they were sent to the Punishment Barracks for hard labor.

3. Auschwitz The men were forcibly separated from the women and children, and the group was separated. Mr. van Pels was sent to the gas chamber 3 weeks later. Dr. Pfeffer was sent to Neungamme concentration camp, where he fell ill and died. On the first day, 549 of the 1,019 passengers, including all children younger than 15 — were sent directly to the gas chambers. On September 3, 1944, the group was deported to Auschwitz, and arrived after a three-day journey.

4. Frank had turned 15 three months earlier and was one of the youngest people to be spared from her transport. She was soon made aware that most people were gassed upon arrival, and feared the worst. She reasoned that her father had been killed immediately after they were separated because of his age. Anne did not know that Peter vanPels and her father were alive at Auschwitz. Otto Frank protected Peter vanPels as much as he could, but Peter was transported to, and died, in Mauthausen concentration camp.

5. With the other females not selected for immediate death, Frank was forced to strip naked to be disinfected, had her head shaved and was tattooed with an identifying number on her arm. Anne Frank was sent to labor, forced to haul rocks and dig rolls of sod. Some witnesses later testified that Anne Frank became withdrawn and tearful when she saw children being led to the gas chambers. Other survivors interviewed after the war reported that Anne Frank often displayed strength and courage, and her confident and optimistic nature allowed her to obtain extra bread rations for her mother, sister and herself. Disease was rampant and before long, Frank's skin became badly infected by scabies. The Frank sisters were moved into an infirmary, which was in a state of constant darkness, and infested with rats and mice. Edith Frank stopped eating, saving every morsel of food for her daughters and passing her rations to them, through a hole she made at the bottom of the infirmary wall. Auschwitz-Losing Hope

6. In January 1945, Anne was briefly reunited with her best friend, Hanneli Goslar, who was confined in another section of the camp. Goslar survived the war, and later described the Anne she saw at Belsen as bald, emaciated, and shivering. Goslar remembered that Mrs. van Pels was with Anne and Margot Frank, and was caring for Margot, who was severely ill. Neither of them saw Margot as she was too weak to leave her bunk. Anne told Hanneli that her parents were dead, and for that reason she did not wish to live any longer. In October 1944, the Frank women were chosen to join a transport to the Liebau labor camp. Anne was prohibited from joining because she had developed scabies, and Margot and Edith Frank opted to stay with her. On October 28th, Anne, Margot, and Mrs. van Pels were transported, but Mrs. Frank was left behind and later died from starvation.

7. Mrs. vanPels took care of Margot and Anne until she was transported to Terezin, where she died. In March 1945, a typhus epidemic spread through Bergen- Belsen and killed approximately 17,000 prisoners. Witnesses later testified Margot fell from her bunk in her weakened state and was killed by the shock. A few days later, Anne died. On April 15, 1945, the camp was liberated by British troops.

8. Otto Frank survived his internment in Auschwitz. After the war ended, he returned to Amsterdam, where he met up with Miep Gies and attempted to locate his family. Miep Gies gave Mr. Frank Anne’s diary. He left them unread for some time but eventually he typed out the diary papers into a single manuscript and edited out sections he thought too personal to his family or too mundane to be of interest to the general reader. In June 1947, the first Dutch edition of the diary was issued under the title Het Achterhuis ( The Back House"). Its success led to an English translation in 1952, which led to a play version, which was published in 1955. Otto Frank

9. Miep Gies Miep Gies saved Anne Frank's diary without reading it. She received the "Order of Merit" of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 1995 received the highest honor from the Yad Vashem, the Righteous Among the Nations. She was appointed a "Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau" by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. In 1996, she shared an Academy Award with Jon Blair for their documentary Anne Frank Remembered, based largely on her book of the same title. She stated that every year she continued to spend the entire day of August 4 th (the date those in the Annex were arrested) in mourning. Miep Gies died on January 11, 2010, at the age of 100.