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"The author writes compassionately yet objectively,
and her moving prose helps carry readers through the rich collection
of materials....Students researching Anne Frank or the Holocaust will
make extensive use of this resource."
School
Library Journal (print)
"This is an excellent resource for
interdisciplinary courses, especially in the humanities."
The
Book Report (print)
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is the most widely read
text about the Holocaust, yet it reveals only one example of the tragic
consequences of the Nazi policy to eliminate the Jews. This sourcebook
enriches Anne Frank's remarkable personal account with a variety
of historical documents that illuminate the political and social context
of anti-Semitism in Germany and the Holocaust. It includes an
account of the Frank family's life in Germany before emigrating
to Holland; first-person accounts of Anne's last seven months in deportation
and concentration camps; other Holocaust narratives in
the form of memoirs, letters, and children's diaries; an
excerpt from Zlata’s Diary, the story of a young girl
caught in the war in Bosnia which has been compared to Anne Frank's;
official Nazi pronouncements on "The Final Solution" to
the Jews; and newspaper reports and editorials of the
horrific events occurring between 1939 and 1945.
Documents and discussion materials are organized into chapters
on the Frank family history, including a chronology; the
Jews in Holland; children in the Holocaust and their rescuers;
a narrative overview and chronology of anti-Semitism in modern
Germany; the Holocaust; and other Holocaust stories.
Kopf also addresses the psychological issues of adolescent development
so dramatically illustrated in Anne's diary and looks at her writing
as carefully crafted literature.
In addition, the online sourcebook provides the user access to:
- Anne Frank House
Online, Amsterdam: Includes the house where Anne hid from the Nazis and wrote
her diary; family photographs, pages and photos from Anne’s diary (first diary,
rewritten diary, publications and reactions), and biographies and photos of the
people with whom she hid
- Audio of Miep Gies,
speaking on the risks of helping the Franks
- Chronology of Otto
Frank’s life
- Hundreds of
historical photographs of the concentration, labor and transit camps including
Treblinka, Westerbork, Sobibor, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau,
and concentration death camp map
- Excerpts from The Diaries of Etty Hillesum
- Audio/Video of
Holocaust Survivors from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
at Yale University
- Nazi Genocide: The
Holocaust Children
- Photos and Profiles
of Dutch Rescuers
- Kristallnacht: The
November 1938 Pograms
- The Tragedy of the SS
St. Louis: Map and Photos
· Biographical profiles
of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Mussolini, Mengele and others
- Glossary of cultural
references and historical idioms from Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl
- Web-based study
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