Historical Context

1. Germany loses WWI. Close to be in The Great Depression.Germany is desperate for supplies and money to keep their county going.
2. 1942 Hitler gains power and the Holocaust begins. If Hitler would have never gained power the Holocaust would have never happened. Jews would have never been descriminated the way they were.
3. WWII begings. While this was going on Jews and many other people were being killed. Due to all this killing, the Holocaust began and Jews were the ones targeted.
4. Germany blamed Jews for their econimic depression and the lost of WWI. The reason they were targeted and descriminated against was becasue of the lost of WWI.
5. 1942-1944 The Franks and Van Danns were hiding from the Nazis. They spent two years in an atic.
6. Jews were put in Ghettos so that they wouldnt be hard to find. They also used the Ghettos to torture them and to keep them from the outside. Many Jews died from starvation and diseases in the Ghettos.
7. Gustapos were sent to find any Jews that were hiding. If they were found hiding they would be sent to concentration camps to work and be killed.
8. Jews were sent to concentraion camps so they could work, be removed from their families, and be killed. Babies were burned and killed.Jews were tortured and put in gas chambers.
9. Jews in hiding celebrated Honikah. it gave them hope and brought happiness to them. That holiday was the only day that they were united and happy.
10. The final solution, Hitler decided to start sending every Jew to concentration camps to be burned and put to work.
11. 1944 D-Day, Allies attacked the Nazis on Normandy Beach. After that the rule of Nazis and Hitler were close to an end. If Anne's family had continued hiding for a couple of months more they would of survied.
12. Hitler killed himself because he knew that they had caught him. He had no reason to keep going because he was still gonna be killed.