Historical Background for the Play

The Diary of Anne Frank

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Specific Topics and Websites

• Conditions in Europe leading up to World War II
  • World War I and the Years Thereafter
  • World War II Commemoration
  • Jewish Life in Europe Before the Holocaust
  • Jews in Pre-War Germany
  • World War II Introduction

   

• Hitler's rise to power and his political beliefs
  
• Hitler (from The History Place)
• Hitler Comes to Power
• Adolf Hitler
• Hitler (from Grolier Online)
• Hitler (from Time 100)

   

• The Nazi Party in Germany

• The Rise of Nazi Germany
• The Great Depression and the Rise of the Nazis
• Nazi Rise to Power
• Nazi Rule
• The "Final Solution"

 

• Hitler Youth
  • Hitler Youth (from the JVL)
  • The History Place: Hitler Youth
  • The Hitler Youth

 

• Concentration camps and death camps, esp. Bergen-Belsen

• Nazi Camp System
• Nazi Camps
• The Forgotten Camps
• At the Killing Centers
• Jewish Virtual Library: Concentration Camps

 

• Jewish religious holidays and the Star of David

• Judaism 101: Jewish Holidays
• Chanukah
• About.com: Hanukkah
• Judaism 101: Signs and Symbols

 

• The S. S., the Gestapo (the green police)

• The Gestapo (from Jewish Virtual Library)
• Protective Squadrons
• SS Police State
• The SS (from Wikkipedia)

 

• Kristallnacht

• Kristallnacht (from PBS)
• "Night of Broken Glass"
• Kristallnacht (from USHMM)
• Kristallnacht (from MTSU)

 

• Restrictions on Jewish-German life in the 1930's

• How did the Nazis treat the Jews for the first years after their accession?
• How did the Jews in Nazi Germany respond to their persecution before the war?
• Why didn't more Jews leave Europe before the war began?
• Nazi Racism
• Jews in Pre-War Germany

 

• The invasion of Holland and the treatment of the Jews in the Netherlands

• The Phony War
• Holland Established as Nazi State
• Anton Mussert and the Dutch Nazi Party
• Relentless Nazification
• Holland Invaded
• Nazi directives aimed at segregating Dutch Jews
• Deportation from the Netherlands
• A picture is worth a thousand words
• The end of the road was the same for all
• Deportation Pictures

 

• The Resistance movement during World War II

• Rescue and Resistance
• Resistance Inside Germany
• Jewish Partisans
• Jewish Resistance

 

• Anne Frank and the people with whom she went into hiding

• The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
• Anne Frank Center, USA - Scrapbook
• Anne Frank, the Writer from the U. S. Holocaust Museum)
• Keeping Anne Frank's Story Alive: Miep Gies
• I Saw Anne Frank Die

 

• The Secret Annexe (the place in which the Frank family hid)

• The Anne Frank House
• The Secret Annexe
• Anne Frank

 

• Hitler's defeat and death

• People and Events: Adolf Hitler
• Hitler (from Time 100)
• Hitler (from The History Place)
• Adolf Hitler
• Hitler (from Grolier Online)

 

• Battle of the Bulge

• The Battle of the Bulge (from the BBC)
• Battle of the Bulge

 

• D-Day

• A Brief History of D-Day
• What Does the "D" in "D-Day" Mean?
• D-Day
• Britannica.com Presents Normandy, 1944

 

• The liberation of the camps

• Liberation
• The Second World War and its Consequences
• The Survivors
• Liberation of the Nazi Camps
• Focus on Liberation

 

• Nuremberg Trials
  • Court TV: A Look Back at Nuremberg
  • Nazi Defendants in the Major War Figures Trials
  • Subsequent Nuremberg Trials

 

Websites Covering Several Topics

• The Holocaust Encyclopedia (from the U. S. Holocaust Museum)
• The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy (a ThinkQuest activity)
• About the Holocaust (from the Holocaust Memorial Center)
• Simon Wiesenthal Multimedia Learning Center

Fee-based Database Resources

• Link to the Fee-based Database menu for access to World Book Online, SIRS Discoverer, and Student Resource Center Junior
• Link to the American History database
  

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