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Anne Frank

1. Over one million children

under the age of 16 died in

Nazi concentration camps

during World War II. Anne

Frank was one of them.

2. Anne Frank was a German-

Jewish teenager born on June

12th, 1929. On June 12th, 1942,

Anne received a small red and

white diary for her thirteenth

birthday. She called her new diary “Kitty” and wrote in it every day. Anne’s diary became

her best friend. From July 6th, 1942, Anne’s family and four friends went into hiding from

the Nazis. They hid in small rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam. They hid for 25

months. Everything about their lives became a secret.

3. But they were betrayed. They were arrested and taken to Nazi concentration camps. In

March of 1945, nine months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus. She was 15

years old. Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the Holocaust.

4. After the war, Otto Frank found his daughter’s diary. In 1947, he published the diary. He

wanted people to know about Nazi fascism and the Holocaust. Since then, the diary has

been published in 55 languages. More than 24 million copies have been sold. In English, the

book is called The Diary of Anne Frank.

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READING COMPREHENSION

Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

1. How many children died in Nazi concentration camps?

____________________________________________________________________________________2. Where was Anne Frank from?

____________________________________________________________________________________3. What did Anne receive on her thirteenth birthday?

____________________________________________________________________________________

4. What did she call her new diary?____________________________________________________________________________________

5. Why did Anne’s family go into hiding?____________________________________________________________________________________

6. Where did they hide?

____________________________________________________________________________________7. How long did they hide?

____________________________________________________________________________________8. After they were betrayed, where were they taken?

____________________________________________________________________________________

9. When did Anne Frank die?____________________________________________________________________________________

10. How old was she when she died?____________________________________________________________________________________

11. Who survived the Holocaust?

____________________________________________________________________________________12. Who found Anne’s diary?

____________________________________________________________________________________13. When did he publish Anne’s diary?

____________________________________________________________________________________

14. Why did he publish Anne’s diary?____________________________________________________________________________________

15. How many languages has the diary been published in?____________________________________________________________________________________

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VOCABULARY REVIEW

Unscramble the words below from the story. Then write one original sentence for each word.

1. w i s e h j

________________ _________________________________________________________________2. e r e n a t e g

________________ _________________________________________________________________3. a r y i d

________________ _________________________________________________________________4. g i d i h n

________________ _________________________________________________________________5. r a y e d b e t

________________ _________________________________________________________________6. h e d b l i s p u

________________ _________________________________________________________________7. s t e a r d r e

________________ _________________________________________________________________8. t r s e e c

________________ _________________________________________________________________

Find the words from above in the Word Search below.

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j e w i s h t a s h d y c a c a e i s e i a e h a di d r k y t e g m a m p i s s t a v h n i i d n u u d t i c d i a r y a v b a e s a v o d g i y c c l t g c e v i i e k n h h i o i k a c p n r r i e d s w f i r c r g e t a r y h k t n t v r e h b i r t e e s g s f b e t r a y e d r e s u r v i v e d k n t e t m o a r r e s t e d s c

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VOCABULARY REVIEW

1. w i s e h j! ! = jewish2. e r e n a t e g ! ! = teenager! ! 3. a r y i d!! ! = diary! 4. g i d i h n! ! = hiding5. r a y d b e t! ! = betrayed 6. h e d b l i s p u! ! = published 7. s t e a r d r e! ! = arrested! 8. t r s e e c! ! = secret!

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ANSWER KEY A

Find the words from above in the Word Search below.

READING COMPREHENSION

1. Over one million children died in Nazi concentration camps.

2. Anne Frank was from Germany.

3. Anne received a small red and white diary on her thirteenth birthday.

4. She called her new diary “Kitty.”

5. Anne’s family went into hiding from the Nazis.

6. They hid in small rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam.7. They hid for 25 months.

8. After they were betrayed, they were taken to Nazi concentration camps.

9. Anne Frank died in March of 1945.

10. She was 15 years old when she died.

11. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the Holocaust.

12. Otto Frank found Anne’s diary.

13. He published Anne’s diary in 1947.

14. He published Anne’s diary because he wanted people to know about Nazi fascism and the Holocaust.

15. The diary has been published in 55 languages.

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