The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

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Play begins in November 1945

Flashback: an interruption of the current chronological

sequence of events to an earlier occurrence

Miep saved Anne’s diary

Act I

Anti-Jewish Laws: Jews were forbidden to:

hold civil service(government) jobs

attend non-Jewish schoolsmarry non-Jews

practice law or medicineown a business

own a car or use public transportation

be on the street between 8pm and 6am

“All’s fair in love and war.”

“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 starturn in their bicycles do their shopping between 3 and 5 PMgo to only Jewish barber shops,

markets, etc.attend Jewish schools

“…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

“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

“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

“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

“We’ve got to be reasonable about everything we do here.”

263 Prinsengracht - The Annex

The Frank family in 1940

“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.”

“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.

“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”

“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.

“…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.

“…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.

“Oh, it’s hard to be strong and brave in every way.”

The helpers, from left to right: Mr. Kleiman, Miep Gies, Bep Voskuijl, and Mr. Kugler.

•The people providing ration

books are arrested

•Mr. Kraler develops ulcers

•Mouschi ran away

Act IIAct 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.

“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

“I…feel like a songbird whose wings have been

ripped off and who keeps hurling itself

against the bars of its dark cage.”

“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

“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.

“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 1944-1945 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

“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”