What happened to Anne Frank?
As detectives, all of you have been given a task: to investigate the circumstances surrounding Anne Frank's disappearance.
The last piece of evidence we have before Anne Frank's disappearance was her final diary entry. It reads:
As I’ve told you many times, I’m split in two. One side contains my cheerfulness, my joy in life and, above all, my ability to appreciate the lighter side of things... This side of me is usually lying in wait to ambush the other one, which is much purer, deeper, and finer...What happened to Anne Frank after that? You'll have to continue this webquest to find out. Click on the links above, answer all the questions in the comment boxes provided, and do all the activities given to you (signalled by their yellow boxes!). At the end of it, after submitting your final activity, you will be allowed to unlock the answer: the story of the disappearance of Anne Frank.
If I’m quiet and serious, everyone thinks I’m putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke... my own family assume I must be ill, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can’t keep it up any more, because I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.
Yours,
Anne M. Frank
—Adapted from an entry dated August 1, 1944
Activity 1: What do you know about the Holocaust?
Post on this board what you already know about the Holocaust. It doesn't matter if you don't know much, we just want to know where everyone's starting from!
Post on this board what you already know about the Holocaust. It doesn't matter if you don't know much, we just want to know where everyone's starting from!
For a brief introduction to the rise of Hitler and the Holocaust, watch this interactive video!
