FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK – ANNE FRANK

 1. Who was Anne Frank? 

   Ans.  Anne Frank (12 June 1929—February/March 1945) was a German Jew. She was a young Jewish girl who  lived with her parents in Germany. 

2. At what age did Anne write her diary?

Ans. Anne Frank ,the twelve-year-old Jewish girl wrote ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

3. How and where did Anne Frank die?

Ans. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and transported to a concentration camp in Bergen where Anne and her elder sister Margot died of typhus in 1945.

4. Who found her diary and got it published?

Ans.  Anne's father, Otto, the only survivor of the group found her diary and got it published in English under the name ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’.

5. Who was against the Jews ? What did they do with them?

Ans. Hitler’s Nazi Party was against the Jews. The Nazis were killing the Jews or forcing them to work in the concentration camps. 

6. When did the Frank family flee from Germany? Where had the taken shelter?

The Frank family fled from Germany in 1933 and took shelters in the Netherlands.

7.What happened in 1940? What did Nazis do with the Jews?

Ans. In 1940, Germany attacked the Netherlands and captured it. the Nazis started arresting the Jews and sending them to the concentration camps.

8. What happened to the Frank family?

Ans. The Frank family went into hiding. They lived secretly in the upper floors of their business premises. They hid there for 25 months. Their non-Jewish friends gave them food.

9.When did the Germans come to know of their hiding? What happened after that ?

Ans. In August 1944, the Germans came to know of their hiding. They were arrested and sent to Germany. Anne, her sister, Margot and her mother soon died in a concentration camp.

10. What did Anne write in her diary ?

 Ans. In this diary, Anne gives a moving and tragic account of the difficulties faced by her family and the other Jews. 

11. What did `The Diary of Anne Frank’ describe?

`The Diary of Anne Frank’ and the given extract is one of the most authentic works describing the atrocities committed on the Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in the 1940s. It also provides an intimate account of the daily life that her small groups led in hiding in Amsterdam.

12. What has made Anne's diary an important document?

Anne's  frankness, her  honesty and sincerity of description of her parents, friends and teachers make her writing the most important document of the Holocaust period. 

13. What is a Holocaust?

Ans. The Holocaust was a process that started with discrimination against Jewish people, and ended with millions of people being killed because of who they were. It was a process that became increasingly brutal over time. From the moment they came to power in 1933, the Nazis persecuted people who they didn't think were worthy members of society - most notably Jewish people.

14. What did the Nazi party do ?

Ans. They introduced laws that discriminated against them and took away their rights. Jewish people were not allowed in certain places and were banned from getting certain jobs.  They also began to set up concentration camps where they could send people they believed to be "enemies of the state" to be imprisoned and forced to work. This included Jewish people and anybody who did not support them.

15. What did the Nazi party do in 1940 ?

Ans. By the early 1940s, the Nazis were looking for a way they could kill a great number people in a short time in order to get rid of Europe's Jewish population.

16. Who carried out the holocaust?

Ans. Many groups of people were involved in carrying out the Holocaust. There were two Nazi groups in particular which organized the killing of Nazi "enemies", but the Nazis also relied on informants to tell them what people were up to. The German army also played a role in enforcing the Nazis' brutal rule.

17. Who were The SS?

Ans. The SS was a military-style group of Nazis, founded in 1925, and were like Hitler's personal bodyguards. They were in charge of overseeing the killing of people in the camps. Part of the SS called the Einsatzgruppen were put in charge of killing many people, before the extermination camps were opened to carry this out on a much greater scale. The SS also took control of intelligence, security and the police force.

18. What was The Gestapo?

Ans. The Gestapo were the secret state police established in 1933,. They were in charge of rounding people up to send them to the camps.