The Diary of Anne Frank

Background Worksheet

Student name:____________________________ Partner's name:________________________________

Class:_________________________________ Date:____________________

Students will be placed into pairs to gather information about the Holocaust and to present that information to the class or to write a group report that will be turned in to the teacher. One person will find information and facts on the first phase of this period in time, 1933-1939, and the second team member will research the second phase, 1939-1945.

After you have completed this worksheet, take all of the facts from each phase and combine into one or several detailed paragraphs. As a result, each person should have ONE detailed paragraph, or a total of TWO detailed paragraphs for the group.

1933-1939

bulletJanuary 30, 1933 - Nazi party leader, Adolf Hitler, becomes Chancellor of Germany 
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1939-1945

bulletJanuary 1942 - The Final Solution is secretly announced. Jews will be exterminated in gas chambers after being forced to work in war factories.
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