The Diary of Anne Frank WebQuest Worksheet
The Diary of Anne Frank
Web-Quest Worksheet
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
1.How did the end of WWI leave Germany open to follow a man like Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party?
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
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
1. List five restrictions these The Nuremberg Laws placed on German Jews.
Task #5--------The 1936 Olympics
1. What was Hitler's goal in hosting the 1936 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
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
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
1. Chelmno was one of the first death camps. Describe how the gas vans work.
2. Describe the living conditions at any of the concentration camps.
3. Forced labor is part of the concentration camps. How many hours are prisoners forced to work each day?
4. Describe the food given each day to a prisoner at Auschwitz.
5. How many people will eventually lose their lives at Auschwitz?
6. Using a map, name the six extermination camps that are located in Poland.
Task #9--------Medical Experiments
1. There are three broad classes of medical experiments done at Dachau. What were 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
1. Why did the Nazis consider children 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 or her.
Task #11--------The Rescuers
1. Look up the three people listed and briefly explain how these ordinary citizens helped save lives. Locate answers to questions 4 and 5.
1. Alexander Roslan
2. Cathie Poirier-Prous
3. Varian Fry
4. When Paul Gauinger 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
Look up the names listed below and tell how these men help Adolf Hitler carry out his program of "ethnic cleansing".
1. Adolf Eichmann
2. Hermann Goring
3. Joseph Goebbels
4. Heinrich Himmler
Task #13--------Jewish Resistance
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
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
1. Look at the art work of Yehuda Bacon and Waldemar Nowakowski. Pick one picture from either artist, copy it and paste it into the page below. (or, if handwriting, into a Microsoft Word Document) Ms. Youngblood can help you do this if you do not know how. Below the picture, in your own words, tell how it makes you feel. What is the author trying to say?
2. Go to the poetry site and pick one poem. Copy one verse like you did with question #1, using the same sheet of paper as you did for question #1, paste the verse. Below the verse explain in your own words how this poem makes you feel. When you are finished get permission from your teacher or a media center teacher to print this out.
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