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Contextualizing Memoirs with Anne Frank Kelly A. Watson

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

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Contextualizing Memoirs with Anne Frank Kelly A. Watson

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

  2. Student-Directed Presentations

  3. Teaching History through the Memoirs You Teach

  4. WWII/Frank Timeline Arrange photographs in order

  5. Hitler Becomes German ChancellorJanuary 30,1933 Otto Frank decides to relocate his family to the Netherlands.

  6. Germany Invades Poland, Beginning WWII, September 1939

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

  8. 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

  9. Bombing of Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941 Anne and Margot removed from public school and begin at the Jewish Lyceum.

  10. Frank and van Pels Families Move into the AnnexJuly 1942

  11. 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, Anne Tuesday, June 6, 1944

  12. Discovery of the AnnexAugust 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

  13. Liberation of AuschwitzJanuary 1945 Otto Frank is liberated by the Russians on January 27th.

  14. Death of Margot and Anne FrankMarch 1945Bergen-Belsen Liberated, April 1945

  15. VE-DayMay 8, 1945 Otto Frank returns to Amsterdam, June 1945, the only survivor

  16. Dropping of the Atomic BombsAugust 6 and 9, 1945

  17. The Diary of Anne Frank First Published, 1947

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