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The ABC's Book of Anne Frank and the Infamous Holocaust

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The ABC's Book of Anne Frank and the Infamous Holocaust

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Co-Written by Sierra Keck and Jordyne Hunter (3rd period)

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The Holocaust began in 1933, when Hitler and his Nazis took control of Germany. Because of his strong hatred towards Jewish people, he corralled them into "ghettos" and eventually sent them to concentration camps to be killed. They were killed by many horrific ways that are mentioned briefly throughout the context. Many Jews also feared their immenent fate and went into hiding to avoid Hitler and his Nazis. This is the story of a young girl named Anne Frank and her family and how her life was like during the Holocaust.

Adolf Hitler

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Anne Frank was a young girl who never quite made it out of childhood and was born on June 12, 1929. She then died in March during 1945, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover. She wrote in a diary during the German occupation in the Netherlands. Her diary about the two years she and her family spent in hiding became a classic of war literature.

~~~She had also always dreamed of being a writer or journalist and of living on after her death, but she only managed to achieve the latter.

In this picture Anne talks about how she always wanted to look as she was in the picture so she'd have a chance to go to Hollywood, which is translated at the bottom left corner.

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A bigot who has a strong or unreasonable dislike for a certain group/groups of people. An example of this would be like the Nazis and their extreme dislike for the Jews and the way Hitler organized plans to "ultimately" wipe every Jew off the face of the earth.

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Mark Dvorjetski, Holocaust survivor and director of the Tel Aviv Institute for the investigation of the Holocaust, wrote this article about the horrors of the Holocaust:

"Life in ghettos, and in labour, concentration and extermination camps, life in the underground, life of those whose existence outside the ghetto boundaries depended on their forged "Aryan" papers, of those who hid with the peasants, and of those who lived in the constant expectation of imminent deportation…all forms of life-conditions during the Nazi reign of terror and mass-murder."

This image is of the entrance gate to Auschwitz:

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On June 12,1942, Anne Frank received a little red diary, which she names Kitty, for her thriteenth birthday. During her time spent hiding from the Nazis in the Secret Annex, Kitty has become her best and only friend.

This is an exerpt of the inside of Anne's diary:

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This picture is of Anne frank attending a Dutch school. She went to this school a little while before she went into hiding. She was a very intellectual girl who loved school. This picture also shows how school was like back then in Holland before the difficulties of the Holocaust...

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Despite medical care, many refugees still ended up dying from the unimaginable time they spent hiding and working under terrible conditions in concentration camps. One article -Jews after the Holocaust -even mentioned, "They suffered from tuberculosis, typhoid, infections, extreme malnutrition (some adults weighed as little as 60 pounds), crippling injuries caused by accidents and overwork, and the effects of ghastly medical experiments. Some had been castrated, others simply rendered sterile."

As a result of severe strain on their minds, they also were effected from other terrible illnesses like cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, endocrinological and metabolic illnesses, surgical problems, and, of course, neuropsychic illnesses. These people ended up being dirty and were haunted by nightmares, depressed, and fearful of any authorities, including the Americans. They were also argumentative, emotionally traumatized, lonely, and very very sick...

They soon gave up on humanity, were attacked, and abandoned, as they weren't allowed back to their homes. Although, some Jews were allowed into France, England, Canada, Latin America, Australia, and the United States. Yet these countries didn't end up opening their gates very wide. A reason why is mentioned in the same article as, "Survivors made everyone feel bad. They were too quiet, they looked awful, they were visibly fearful, and their presence made others feel guilty. The governments of most countries treated the defeated Germans better than they did Germany's victims."

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Genocide in the World English Dictionary means the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group; the Holocaust is a primary example of this. Some lesser known examples of genocide in our world's history is the American Genocide of 1915 and the African Genocide of the Watutsi people in the 1900's.

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Adolf Hitler is the cold, cruel, and sadistic man who organized the mass genocide of Jews and people he deemed undesirable, or otherwise known as the Holocaust. He began his plan to lift Germany out of the ashes of World War I in 1919, when he gained the trust of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, aka the Nazis. Finally in 1933, he assumed complete control over Germany as Chancellor and turned the government into a dictatorship. When the Axis Powers officially lost World War II, Hitler fled from Germany to escape arrest and committed suicide like a coward.

"Hitler, Adolf: eastern front 1939"

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To create what Hitler envisioned as a perfect and ideal society, he killed 6 million Jews and 5 million undesirables who "stained" his otherwise blemish-less world. The world that would come out of the destruction would be more ideal and efficient in his terms, since, to him and handfuls of other Germans, believed that the German were the Superior race!

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Anne and her fellow occupants of the hide out ate dry bread and coffee supplement for breakfast, soup or porridge and bread for lunch, and spinach and lettuce with potatoes (described in diary as 20 centimeters long and rotten); fried potatoes occasionally with vegetable or lettuce and, at times, a special treat of sausage for dinner. Holidays - December 1942 - Chanukah and St. Nicholas Day - a Dutch festival for children and the following year Christmas.

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During the Holocaust many Jews and non-Jews alike were murdered by the German and Dutch Nazis. Many were killed by disease and hunger and others from the labor they were forced to do. Yet, many others still were gassed to death in the gas chambers or - aka "shower rooms". Approximately 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 other "undesirables" died, making a total of about 11,000,000 people dying due to the Holocaust and Hitler's control of Germany and his control of countries he took over.

These are prisoners forced to do labor at Auschwitz:

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During this time period of horrific events, the Jews had very difficult lives. Many difficulties that they went through caused eventual death in the end like the fact that they often went hungry or couldn't get enough nutrition, as well as help from courageous outsiders. They also experienced the witnessing of multitudes of deaths, with crushing weight of knowing that the person falling to their knees, gasping in their last death, and seeing the final darkness for themselves could very well, soon be them...

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She was born on February 15, 1909. She was the last surviving heroine of the five people who helped conceal the five people hiding in the Annex where Anne Frank was. She was also the person who found and saved Anne Frank's diary and later gave it to Anne's father. After which it was published under the name, "The Secret Annex".

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The National Socialist German Workers' Party, or otherwise known as the Nazis, became Hitlers loyal hounds and official "executioners" of the undesirables in 1919. They mostly murdered Jews due to antisemitism, but also killed millions of Poles, Russians, Roma ("Gypsies"), Serbs, Czechs, and many of Hitler's political opponents.

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Otto Frank and his two brothers served in the German during WWI. He served from 1914-18 and soon rose to the rank of Lieutenant. When Otto got out of the army, he worked for his father's banking firm and in 1925, he married Edith Holland. They lived in Frankfurt and had Margot Betti and Annelies Marie (Anne).

Otto Frank is on the right in his uniform. He is standing by his brother. The picture was taken in 1916.

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A German Poet's Truth

This is a poem written by a woman who grew up as a Christian child in Germany during the time of WWII and the Nazi years. Her name is Ursula Duba and this is her poem about Holocaust denial:

the stain
caused by
the one and a half million Jewish children
starved to death gassed
or shot as target practice
the four and a half million adult Jews
the hundreds of thousands of Gypsies
the Jehovah's Witnesses
the mentally and physically disabled
murdered
cannot be expunged


Q:Why did this particular poem "strike" you?

A:It truly showed how horribly children who were Jews were treated by the Nazis in the concentration camps and it reveals just how drastic that much death is.

Q:What feelings and images did it provoke in your mind?

A:Miss Duba uses very good sensory language in the poem, so the reader can really picture the starving, malnourished children and the adults who were physically disabled being shot, starved, and gassed without a shred of mercy.

Q:What is the most moving line(s) in the poem? What is your overall reaction?

A:We think that the most moving lines in the poem were the first and last because it means that even though the Holocaust is over, the lasting mark of the slaughter of their families and friends by the Nazis may be able to atone for but will never be forgotten.

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The Jews and some of the Dutch went into hiding to escape the Nazis. The Jewish that were hiding wanted to keep away from being taken to concentration camps like Auschwitz. During the time they were hiding they had to stay extremely quiet due to the fear of being found out. Among the people hiding were the Frank family, the van Daan family, and Mr. Dussel. They hid out in the Secret Annex which Otto Frank had built before hand for when they would have to go into hiding. They hid out here for two years before they were betrayed.

This is a picture of the concealed entrance to the Secret Annex in the Anne Frank House.

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This refugee is from the concentration camp, Auschwitz in Poland. It was taken sometime around 1945 and the serial number is one of a former prisoner who survived the Jewish life during the Holocaust.

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Many Dutch people in Holland were very willing to help the Jews and sypathized with them. They also brought them food and, at times, medicine. Despite their efforts though, the Jews still went hungry often and died from illnesses they could not appropriately treat on a day to day basis. An example of one of these sympathizers would be Meip Gies who helpedd Anne and her family out during their two year hide-out.

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Although antisemitism, or the hatred of Jews, really became popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, the actual holocaust did not begin until 1933, when Hitler became official chancellor of Germany. The Holocaust lasted until the end of World War II in 1945. During those 12 miserable years, Hitler killed 6 million Jews and 5 million "undesirables".

This is a picture of a gas chamber at Majdanek destruction camp.

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This German word refers to the groups they deemed "undesirable" or aka - as "sub-humans".

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This was a group of Germans who believed in the German race's superiority over any other race. They feared and hated foreigners, especially the Jews.

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Will is great exaple of what the Jews, as well as Anne Frank, had. They fought for survival through their hideouts and often went hungry. The people that were brave enough to help them and bring them food were also very willful, as they all could have been easily caught at any moment.

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This word indicated a foreign item that is in the body. It would also be an example of what the chemicals in the gas chambers were like to the Jews; they were foreign as much as they were lethal...

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Yom Kippur is a biblical, as opposed to rabbinical, Jewish holiday that symbolizes the, "day of atonement". Many un-Orthodox Jews think of this holiday as one of the two "holy days".

The Anne Frank House is also closed on this Jewish holiday, which falls on October 4th in 2014.

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This chemical was developed as an insecticide to kill the Jews in concentration camps. The pellets of this chemical are shaken down into the "shower rooms" - aka gas chambers - to be used as a quicker, cheaper, and more reliable method of killing a mass of people for the Nazis, unlike carbon monoxide.

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Responses to historical pictures used throughout the eBook

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Responses to historical pictures used throughout the eBook

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The pictures throughout the eBook bring out a melancholy vibe. They represent what times were like during such a low-spirited time in the history of our world. These pictures also create a solemn and humble mood to everyone who is a witness to their stories. We start to realize that maybe we don't have such terrible lives in contrast to what the people before us had to go through for us to get to where we are today.

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