People who lived in the annnexe :

• Anne Frank (Anneke/Annele)

• Margot Frank

• Mr. Frank (Pim)

• Mr. Dussel

• Mrs. Van Daan (Liefje and Kerli)

• Mr. Van Daan (Putti)

• Peter

• Mrs. Frank

• Mouschi

Vocabulary/Terms to know

• Genocide → the killing of a certain race or religion

• Scapegoat → someone to take blame

• Adolf Hitler → the dictator of Germany from 1933-1945

• Mein Kampf → book written by Hitler while he was in prison; means “my battle”

• Joseph Mengele → tortured people by experimenting on them, especially twins; nicknamed “Angel of Death”

• Kristallnacht → night when Nazis destroyed Jewish houses and stole things

• Ghetto → a concentration of Jews into one neighborhood

• Conspicuous → obvious to the eye or mind

• Unabashed → not embarrassed

• Loathe → to hate or find repugnant

• Indignantly → to do something in a manner showing anger at something unjust or wrong

• Fortify → to make something strong or stronger

• Zeal → great enthusiasm or devotion to a cause

• Carillon → a set of bells

• Tyranny → a cruel and unjust rule or use of power

• Mercurial → changeable

• Gingerly → to do something carefully or cautiously

• Ostentatiously → to do something in a showy or exaggerated way

• Appalled → horrified or shocked

• Disgruntled → displeased or annoyed

• Inarticulate → unable to speak understandably

• Forlorn →abandoned and lonely

• Animation → liveliness

• Remorse → deep feeling of guilt

• Meticulously → doing something very precisely and keeping attention to detail

• Convulsive → violent and uncontrollable

• Gaunt → thin and bony or hollow-eyed

• Indomitable → unconquerable

• Dispirited → sad and discouraged

Literary terms

• Dramatic Irony → when the audience or reader knows more than the characters

• Dramatic License → “rights” of a producer, writer, or director to change anything in a text to adapt to stage or movie

• Static character → a character who doesn’t change throughout the story

• Dynamic character → a character who undergo internal and external changes

• Flashback → scenes in a book, play, or movie where it takes the reader back to something that happened earlier

Hanukkah gifts

• Peter → a safety razor

• Margot → crossword puzzle

• Mrs. Van Daan → shampoo

• Mr. Dussel → earplugs

• Mr. Frank → a scarf

• Mrs. Frank → an I.O.U. to promise to do whatever she wants for an amount of time

• Mr. Van Daan → 2 cigarettes

• Mouschi → ball of paper with a string attached

Dates/numbers to remember

• Jan. 30th 1933 → Adolf Hitler came to power

• Nov. 9th 1938 → Kristallnacht

• 11,000,000 → number of people that Hitler exterminated

• June 6th 1944 → D-day; troops invaded to fight Nazis on the beaches

• 6,000,000 → number of Jews that Hitler exterminated

• 2,000,000 → the approximate number of non-Jewish Polish people that died

• 7,000,000 → the approximate number of soviet civilians that died

• 250,000 → the approximate number of disabled folks who died

• 1,900 → the approximate number of Jehovah’s Witnesses that died

• Hundreds or thousands of homosexuals died

Major death camps

• Auschwitz → the biggest concentration camp

• Dachau → first concentration camp in 1938

• Terezin → model camp and camp for children; a ghetto

• Bergen-Belsen → camp for holding

• Mauthausen → concentration camp in Austria; forced labor

• Belzec → camp in Poland; made to murder all Polish Jews