WEB ACTIVITIES FOR ANNE FRANK AND

THE HOLOCAUST

OBJECTIVE: Provide background information and activities for students studying literature related to World War II and the Holocaust.

This site contains a series of web sites that may be used to access information about the Holocaust. It includes one comparison/contrast activity of Anne Frank to Elisabeth Cassutto, several interactive maps, as well as many visual resources.

#1 WEB SITE: ANNE FRANK HER LIFE AND TIMES:

http://www.annefrank.com/anne/anne.html

Procedure:

Set the address for "Anne Frank Her Life and Times" from above as the Home location to give your students access to both "Anne’s Story" and "The Diary."

In the web site Anne Frank Her Life and Times students will be able to tour both of the following areas:

Anne’s story (a photo scrapbook of Anne’s life and family)

The Diary

The Story of the Diary

Publishing History of the Diary

Authenticity of the Diary

Selected Entries from the Diary

The other two areas The Annex and The Holocaust are still under construction and are not yet available.

If you wish to focus only on one area you could set either one of the following sites as your Home location rather than the address above.

Anne ‘s Story (a photo scrapbook of Anne’s story)

http://www.annefrank.com/anne/story/story01.html

The Diary (history of the diary)

http://annefrank.com/anne/diary/diary.html

The Annex still under construction, coming soon

The Holocaust still under construction, coming soon

This site provides introductory material for the Diary of Anne Frank, but please keep in mind that the pictures will be best viewed when students have close, clear view of the monitor.

This is primarily a resource site.

#2 WEB SITE: ABE’S STORY:

This site provides the story of Abram Korn in two formats. One is a brief story with picture links embedded into the text that the student may click to view as he reads. The second format is an interactive map that follows Abram Korn’s journey through the Holocaust.

http://remember.org/abe/map.html *Set as your Home location

if you wish to use map only.

http://remember.org/abe/index.html *Set as your Home location if

you wish students to read the

story first. After reading this,

students will click on words

"Interactive Map" to move

on to the map.

Procedure after setting your Home location:

Have students read the introductory story and click the highlighted words to open pictures that relate to the story. After viewing the picture, they return to the story by clicking the words "return to story" at the top of the page.

To move to the map, point and click on the words "Interactive Map" found above the story of Abe. The pictures on the interactive map are "hot spots" that will provide the story of this man’s journey through the Holocaust years. To return to the map, students will click on words "return to map" that are at the top of the text.

These may be viewed as a class, small groups or independently The web site’s strength: personalizing the events and helping students understand the impact of these times on an individual.

For follow-up students could

create and illustrate a time line of what happened to Abram Korn on long roll of paper such as register paper

#3 WEB SITE: THE ERNEST AND ELISABETH CASSUTTO MEMORIAL PAGE – SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST:

The son of two Holocaust survivors created this site in memory of his parents. This site tells the story of Elly Rodrigues Cassutto. Students should have read The Diary of Anne Frank before beginning this activity.

Http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html3/mom.htm

Procedure:

Set the address above as the Home location for this activity.

Have the students read the story of Elly Cassutto found at this site. (or make a hard copy to use for student copies)

Have students create a chart comparing the experiences of Elly with those of Anne Frank. The chart may include but need not be limited to the following elements:

(**Following suggestions come from: Lesson Plans: Grades 8-12 The History of the Holocaust From a Personal Perspective" North Hagerstown High School, Washington County, MD )

Factors that led up to the decision to go into hiding.

Place of hiding: Circumstances, conditions, activities.

Keeping in touch with the outside world: How was it done?

Staying sane: what coping mechanisms did the hidden children use?

Outcome: what was the result on the family by the end of the war?

FYI: a related site: http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html3/dad.htm

The story of her husband Ernest H. Cassutto: The Last Jew of Rotterdam.

#4 WEB SITE: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU: Pictures made at Auschwitz (pictures during the 1970’s) with brief text to explain

http://remember.org/jacobs/index.html

Procedure:

Set the address above as your Home location for students.

Students can select pictures they wish to view and read brief text that explains the pictures.

These can be viewed independently or in small groups. The pictures are dark and won’t be as effective if students are at a great distance.

Use the pictures as supplemental resource for introduction to unit covering the Holocaust.

#5 WEB SITE: CONCENTRATION CAMPS:

An interactive map leading to photos of Auschwitz with text containing both explanation and quotes by survivors

http://remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Procedure:

Set the address above as your home location for students.

Students will click on the red "hot spots" on the map to bring up a picture of that area of the camp. Pictures are accompanied by text containing explanation and quotes from survivors of the camp.

Students should be shown how to use the scroll bar on the right as occasionally there will be several pictures and text under one heading.

To return to the map after viewing a picture students will point and click on the browser’s "back" button.

These pictures are appropriate to be viewed in small groups or independently.

Use the pictures as supplemental resource for introduction to unit covering the Holocaust.

Information compiled by Betty Baker