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History at key stage 3 (Year 9)
Unit 19: How and why did the Holocaust happen?
Section 2: Rights denied: why was Anne Frank forced to go into hiding?
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Objectives |
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- about Anne Frank and her life in Nazi-dominated Europe
- that Anne Frank's plight was caused by Nazi attitudes towards, and actions against, the Jews
- to identify key steps in the withdrawal of human rights
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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Children: |
- Establish the extent of pupils' prior knowledge of the story of Anne Frank, summarising pupils' responses. Ask pupils to use a chronologically structured storyboard to record the main events from the discussion, leaving gaps as necessary.
- Provide pupils with extracts from Anne Frank's diary to complete the storyboard.
- Through class discussion, focus back to the sub-question and, using the storyboard, establish how, when, where and why the Frank family were denied their rights.
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- recall, select and organise key incidents from Anne Frank's life story and represent it in storyboard format
- analyse the withdrawal of human rights from the Frank family
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Points to note |
- A wide variety of audio-visual and ICT resources exists on Anne Frank and her family. A number of websites also offer useful material, but care must be taken in accessing websites as many contain racist material and Holocaust denial material.
- Anne Frank's story offers an accessible way into the study of the Holocaust - by focusing upon one individual's fate, and the reasons for it, the millions of (largely unknown) other individual stories may be (partly) comprehended. However, the prominence given to Anne Frank, almost as a 'celebrity' victim, carries its own dangers,
eg the Frank family were not especially devout followers of the Jewish faith; few other Jews were able to resist deportation and rely upon 'rescuers' to the same degree, therefore very few were able to exercise as much 'choice' over their own destiny.
- As an alternative, teachers may wish to focus this activity on a less well-known family, such as an Orthodox family from Lodz in Poland for whom sources of information are available from Holocaust societies, or an individual, such as Kitty Hart, Elie Wiesel or Primo Levi.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
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