Kelly A. Watson 2012 Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators kwatson@hse.k12.in.

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Indiana Voices Book Signing

Contextualizing Memoirs with Anne Frank

Wearing Save Darfur Bands at FJH Darfur Rally with Eowyn, 2007

FJH Holocaust Memorial Garden

Student-Directed Presentations

Teaching History through the Memoirs You Teach

WWII/Frank Timeline

Arrange photographs in order

Hitler Becomes German Chancellor January 30,1933

Otto Frank decides to relocate his family to the Netherlands.

Germany Invades Poland, Beginning WWII, September 1939

Germany Invades the Netherlands, May 1940

Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday June 12, 1942

German Anti-Jewish Laws are Passed in Amsterdam

June 20, 1942
Jews must wear a yellow star. Jews must hand in their bicycles. Jews are banned from trams and are forbidden to driveJews must be indoors by eightand cannot even sit in their own gardens after that hour. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and other places of entertainmentOur freedom was strictly limited. Yet things were still bearable. Anne Frank

Bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941

Anne and Margot removed from public school and begin at the Jewish Lyceum.

Frank and van Pels Families Move into the Annex July 1942

D-Day, June 6, 1944

Hope is revived within us; it gives us fresh courage, and makes us strong againI may yet be able to go back to school in September or October. Yours, Anne Tuesday, June 6, 1944

Discovery of the Annex August 4, 1944

It was around ten-thirty. I was upstairs with the van Pelses in Peters 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

Liberation of Auschwitz January 1945

Otto Frank is liberated by the Russians on January 27th.

Death of Margot and Anne Frank March 1945

Bergen-Belsen Liberated, April 1945

VE-Day May 8, 1945

Otto Frank returns to Amsterdam, June 1945, the only survivor

Dropping of the Atomic Bombs August 6 and 9, 1945

The Diary of Anne Frank First Published, 1947