Anne Frank Companion Kit
Contents
Book Title Quantity A Family Secret from the Anne Frank House (comic/graphic 2 novel) Heuvel, Eric, and Lorraine T Miller. A Family Secret from the Anne Frank House. Redhill Illustrations, 2007. While searching his grandmother's attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his grandmother, Helena. Helena tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War (Fiction)
Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies 1 Gies, Miep, and Alison Leslie. Gold. Anne Frank Remembered. Bath, Paragon, 2010.
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, this is Miep Geis's own astonishing story hiding the Franks from the Nazis for over two years. (Non-fiction)
Anne Frank’s Chestnut Tree 1 Kohuth, Jane. Anne Frank’s Chestnut Tree. Illus. Elizabeth Sayles. Random House, 2013.
Hidden away in their Secret Annex in Amsterdam during World War II, the Franks could not see the blue sky for years. But through an attic window Anne could see the branches of a tall chestnut tree. Jane Kohuth explores Anne Frank's strong belief in the healing power of nature in this Step 3 leveled reader biography. (Non-fiction)
Courage to Care 2 Rittner, Carol A., and Sondra Myers. The Courage to Care. New York, NY, New York Univ. Pr., 1989.
The extraordinary story of a few non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue and protect Jews from Nazi persecution in Europe during World War II. (Non-fiction)
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Book Title Quantity Diary of Petr Ginz 2 Ginz, Petr. The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942. Edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, Chava Pressburger, 2007.
Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, this secret diary of a teenage prodigy killed at Auschwitz is an extraordinary literary discovery of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny. (Non-fiction)
Hidden on the Mountain 1 DeSaix, Deborah Durland., and Karen Gray. Ruelle. Hidden on the Mountain. New York, Holiday House, 2007.
In the little village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and the area of Auvergne, in Southern France, a Protestant stronghold sheltered several thousand Jews, many of whom were children. (Non-fiction)
Impact 2 Metzelaar, Peter. Impact. Seattle: Holocaust Center for Humanity, 2008.
In Metzaelaar’s memoir, he tells the story of the Nazi’s seizing his entire family, except for his mother Elli and him when he was only 7 years old. Afterwards, the Dutch Underground contacted Klaus and Roefina Post on the Metzelaars’ behalf seeking a place of refuge. Peter and his mother hid on their small farm until March of 1945. (Non-fiction)
Rutka’s Notebook 1 Laskier, Rutka. Rutka's Notebook. Time Inc. Home Entertainment, 2008.
Rutka Laskier, a 14-year-old Jewish girl in the town of Bedzin in Poland, died in Auschwitz in 1943. But she left behind a notebook in which she recorded her thoughts, fears and dreams. This notebook opens a unique, moving window into the everyday life of Polish Jews caught in the throes of Adolf Hitler's Final Solution. (Non-fiction)
Salvaged Pages 1 Zapruder, Alexandra. Salvaged Pages. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 2015. This collection of diaries, written by young people during the Holocaust, reflects a vast and diverse range of experiences - some of the writers were refugees, others were hiding or passing as non-Jews, and some were imprisoned in ghettos. (Non-fiction)
Stolen Voices 2 Filipovic, Zlata. Stolen Voices. New York, NY, Penguin Group, 2006. In Stolen Voices, Filipovic and co-editor Melanie Challenger have gathered fifteen diaries of young people coping with war, from World War I to the struggle in Iraq. (Non-fiction)
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Book Title Quantity The World Must Know 1 Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1993.
This book tells the history of the Holocaust using photos and documents obtained from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Nonfiction)
Zlata’s Diary 2
Filipovic, Zlata. Zlata's Diary. New York, NY, Penguin Books, 2006.
At the height of the Bosnian conflict, Zlata Filipovac describes her typical life of an eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, she becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor’s cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. (Non-fiction)
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Artifact Description Quantity
Cigarette Cards 4
Class Photo - Frieda Soury 1
Hester’s Autograph Book 1
Passport 1
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Piece of Blanket 1
Star 1
Poster - Timeline 1 [Poster]
Films
[Films & DVDs by request] Links to access videos online will be emailed to you: “Short Life of Anne Frank,” “I’m Still Here,” and “With My Own Eyes.”
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Activity– Information about Salvaged Pages 1 [Info]
Poster - Anne Frank Tree Poster 1 [Poster]
Poster -Anne Frank Timeline 1 [Poster]
The following films are available to watch on dvd by request: 3 “Short life of Anne Frank,” “I’m still here,” and “With my Own FILMS Eyes.” (All– DVD on request)
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