Historical Background for the Play

The Diary of Anne Frank

Resources

Local Print and Non print Resources

 Skills

• School Library holdings
  • Use the Automated Card Catalog
  • Use CD-ROM Encyclopedias
  • Use the BCPS Databases - ask for passwords for use at home
  • Use specific Historical Resources - these may be in your school library
    • Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust (Rosen)
    • World War II (Thomson Learning)
    • The New Grolier Encyclopedia of World War II
    • World War II (Time-Life series)
    • The Holocaust (Twenty-first Century Books)
    • Holocaust series (Blackbirch Press)
    • The Holocaust Library (Lucent Books)
    • World Almanac Book of World War II
    • The Holocaust: A Grolier Student Library
    • World War II: Almanac (UXL)
    • World War II: Primary Sources (UXL)
    • World War II: Biographies (UXL)
    • The Holocaust (Greenwood Press)
      
• BCPL Online Catalog

• Using Fee-Based Databases...how to use the search and advanced search feature of the automated catalog
• Search Strategies(Boolean, Natural Language, etc)
• Using Print and CD ROM

Specific Topics and Websites

• Conditions in Europe leading up to World War II
  • World War I and the Years Thereafter
  • World War II Commemoration
  • Jewish Life in Europe Before the Holocaust
  • Jews in Pre-War Germany
  • World War II Introduction
• Hitler's rise to power and his political beliefs
  • Hitler (from Time 100)
  • Hitler (from The History Place)
  • Hitler Comes to Power
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Hitler (from Grolier Online)
• The Nazi Party in Germany
  • The Rise of Nazi Germany
  • The Great Depression and the Rise of the Nazis
  • Nazi Rule
  • The "Final Solution"
• Concentration camps and death camps, esp. Bergen-Belsen
  • The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy
  • Nazi Camp System
  • Nazi Camps
  • The Forgotten Camps
  • At the Killing Centers
  • Jewish Virtual Library: Concentration Camps
  • Camps (from the C.A.N.D.L.E.S Museum)
• Jewish religious holidays and the Star of David
  • Judaism 101: Jewish Holidays
  • Chanukah
  • About.com: Hanukkah
  • Judaism 101: Signs and Symbols
• The S. S., the Gestapo (the green police)
  • The Gestapo (from Jewish Virtual Library)
  • Protective Squadrons
  • SS Police State
  • The SS (from Wikkipedia)
• Kristallnacht
  • Kristallnacht: A nationwide Pogrom, November 9-10, 1938
  • Kristallnacht (from PBS)
  • "Night of Broken Glass"
• Restrictions on Jewish-German life in the 1930's
  • How did the Nazis treat the Jews for the first years after their accession?
  • How did the Jews in Nazi Germany respond to their persecution before the war?
  • Why didn't more Jews leave Europe before the war began?
  • Nazi Racism
  • Jews in Pre-War Germany
• The invasion of Holland and the treatment of the Jews in the Netherlands
  • The Phony War
  • Holland Established as Nazi State
  • Anton Mussert and the Dutch Nazi Party
  • Relentless Nazification
  • Holland Invaded
  • Nazi directives aimed at segregating Dutch Jews
  • Deportation from the Netherlands
  • A picture is worth a thousand words
  • The end of the road was the same for all
  • Deportation Pictures
• The Resistance movement during World War II
  • Resistance and Rescue
  • Resistance: General Topics
  • The Netherlands
  • Resistance Inside Germany
  • Jewish Partisans
• Anne Frank and the people with whom she went into hiding
  • The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
  • Anne Frank
  • Anne Frank, the Writer from the U. S. Holocaust Museum)
  • Keeping Anne Frank's Story Alive: Miep Gies
  • I Saw Anne Frank Die
• The Secret Annexe (the place in which the Frank family hid)
  • The Anne Frank House
  • The Secret Annexe
  • Anne Frank
• Hitler's defeat and death
  • People and Events: Adolf Hitler
  • Hitler (from Time 100)
  • Hitler (from The History Place)
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Hitler (from Grolier Online)
• D-Day
  • A Brief History of D-Day
  • What Does the "D" in "D-Day" Mean?
  • Britannica.com Presents Normandy, 1944
• The liberation of the camps
  • Liberation
  • The Second World War and its Consequences
  • The Survivors
  • Liberation of the Nazi Camps

Websites Covering Several Topics

• The Holocaust Encyclopedia (from the U. S. Holocaust Museum)
• The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy (a ThinkQuest activity)
• About the Holocaust (from the Holocaust Memorial Center)
• Simon Wiesenthal Multimedia Learning Center