The Diary of Anne Frank Webquest

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Task #1: Anne Frank and the Secret Annex 1. Describe how the people housed in the annex kept their presence a secret.

2. Who were the people most responsible for helping those who were hiding?

3. Who shared the annex with Anne and the Frank family?

Task #2: In the beginning: the Rise of the Nazi Party World War I was pivotal in setting Germany up to follow the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. After studying the Holocaust, you will now go back to Germany and see for yourself the impact Hitler had on the German people. Use the links below to answer the following questions:

1. How did the end of WWI leave Germany open to follow a man like Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party? 2. 2. When did Hitler become the official leader of the Nazi Party?

3. What was Mein Kampf?

4. What reason did Hitler give for attempting to annihilate the Jewish people?

Task #3: Nazi Propaganda Hitler led a very successful propaganda campaign against the Jews. Wherever they could the Nazis used art, posters, pamphlets, cartoons and even postage stamps to get their anti-Semitic message across to the German people. Take a look at some of this propaganda and answer the questions below.

1. Look at the cartoon on the right. What is it trying to say?

2. What was the objective of the anti-Semitic films? 3. Examine the cartoons. Pick one of them and do a quick sketch of it. Explain what it means.

Task #4: The Nuremberg Laws On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed. These laws severely limited what Jews could do in Germany. Using the internet links provided, list four restrictions these laws placed on German Jews.

1. 2. 3. 4.

Task #5: The 1936 Olympics Germany had been awarded the 1936 Olympic Games back in 1932, a year before Hitler came to power. Berlin was to host the summer competitions while the winter competitions would be held in Bavaria. The IOC almost moved the games because the Nazis' racist and antisemiticnationalism was contradictory to the whole spirit of the Olympics. Use the linksbelow to find the answers to these questions:

1. What was Hitler's goal in hosting the 1936 Olympic Games?

2. How many gold medals did Jesse Owens win?

3. Who was the only Jewish athlete to compete for Germany in the 1936 Winter Games?

4. Who was the only Jewish athlete to compete for Germany in the 1936 Summer Games?

Task #6: Kristallnacht On the nights of November 9-10, 1938, violence erupted against the Jews in Germany and Austria. Your assignment is to find out why this occurred and what happened to thousands of Jews as a result.

1. What happened on the night of Kristallnacht?

2. What was the German reason for taking such drastic action?

3. How many Jews were sent to concentration camps as a result of that night?

4. What happened to the Jewish businesses

Task #7: The Final Solution The Final Solution was the way the Nazis decided to deal with the Jewish problem. This 'Final Solution' would result in the death of over 5 million European Jews. Go behind the front lines to discover how this could be accomplished in a 'civilized world.'

1. What was the Madagascar Plan?

2. Why didn't the process of emigration (leaving Germany) work for the Jews?

3. Describe how the Jews were transported to the death camps.

4. Who was in charge of transporting the Jews to the death camps?

Task #8: The Concentration Camps One of the most challenging tasks in this webquest is to read about the concentration camps. You will find this information to be extremely unsettling, but the world must know what happened there.

1. Chelmno was one of the first death camps. Describe how the gas vans worked.

2. Describe the living conditions at any of the concentration camps.

3. Forced labor is part of the concentration camps. How many hours are the prisoners forced to work each day?

4. Describe the food given each day to a prisoner at Auschwitz.

5. How many people eventually lost their lives at Auschwitz?

6. Using a map, name the six extermination camps that were located in Poland.

Task #9: Medical Experiments Jews became targets for gruesome medical experiments by SS doctors. Jews were maimed, disfigured, tortured and put through incredible pain in these experiments, and the majority of them died ghastly deaths. Step back in time and gather information about these atrocities.

1. There are three broad classes of medical experiments done at Dachau. What are they?

2. Why were the freezing/hypothermia experiments carried out on prisoners?

3. Why did Josef Mengele do so many experiments on twins?

4. List three other medical experiments that were carried out on the Jewish prisoners.

Task #10: Children and the Holocaust It is estimated that 1 1/2 million of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust were children. The number of children who survived is estimated to be in the mere thousands. Here you will investigate the plight of Jewish children during this period.

1. Why did the Nazis consider children to be unproductive?

2. What was the fate of most Jewish children? 3 .What was Kindertransport?

4. Using the link Biographies of Children, choose a child and tell what happened to him/her.

Task #11: The Rescuers

At least two million Jews survived the Nazi terrorism in Europe because of aid given by courageous men and women who deplored what Hitler was doing. They put their own lives at great risk to save Jewish lives. Your task here is to find these people and tell the world about them. Look up the three people listed and briefly explain how these ordinary citizens helped save lives.

1. Alexander Roslan

2. Cathie Poirier-Prous

3. Varian Fry

4. When Paul Gruninger allowed Jews to cross the border to safety in Switzerland, what happened to him? How was he able to accomplish this?

5. What does the term "Righteous Gentile" mean?

Task #12: Famous Nazis

This next task is to report on some of the most powerful men in the Nazi party. Look up the names below and tell how these men helped Hitler carry out his program of "ethnic cleansing."

1. Adolf Eichmann

2. Hermann Goring

3. Joseph Goebbels

4. Heinrich Himmler

Task #13: Jewish Resistance

Many people think the Jews went to their deaths like "sheep to the slaughter." That is not true, they fought back in many different ways. Your assignment is to find out how they defied the Nazis

1. How long did it take General Himmler to put down the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto? 2. How many prisoners were able to escape from Auschwitz?

3. Why was it more difficult for prisoners to resist after being placed in concentration camps?

4. Name three methods Jews used to try and resist their fate at the hands of the Nazis.

Task #14: Holocaust Statistics

You have almost finished your assignment. You are now going to look at numbers and statistics. You will be shocked at the numbers that show the enormity of human loss in such a short time period.

1. How many Jews were murdered during World War II?

2. How many non-Jewish civilians were murdered during World War II?

3.What other groups of people were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis?

4. What country lost the largest percentage of their Jewish population?

5. What countries lost over 50% of their Jewish population?

Task #15: Holocaust Art and Literature Art and literature helped document what happened during the Holocaust and gave the victims a voice so the rest of the world will not forget. Your final assignment is to take a look at some of the art and poetry created by adults and children in concentration camps.

1. Look at the art work of Yehuda Bacon and Waldemar Nowakowski. Pick one picture from either artist, copy it and paste it into a Microsoft Word Document. Below the picture, in your own words, write how it makes you feel. What is the artist trying to say?

2. Go to the poetry site and pick one poem. Copy one verse like you did in question 1, and paste it on the same piece of paper that you did for the art work in question 1. Below the verse explain in your own words how this poem makes you feel. When you are finished, get permission from your teacher to print this out.