It was spring, 1887. Eleanor Roosevelt was almost three years old. She was very excited. She was going to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a great ship, the Britannica. Her father, whom Eleanor adored, had told her about the different countries that the f...
During the 1930s and early 1940s, Eleanor Roosevelt was our countrys first lady. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was president of the United States then, was her husband. There have been more than forty first ladies of the United States. What made Ele...
TIMELINE OF ANNE FRANKS LIFE 1929Anne Frank is born on June 12, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1933Edith and Margot Frank move to the Netherlands 1934Anne and her father join the rest of the family in Amsterdam 1941Anne and Margot attend the Jewish Sc...
Of the eight people in the Annex, only Otto Frank survived the war. He returned to Amsterdam hoping for a family reunion. Instead he learned that his wife and daughters were gone. All that was left was the diary and photographs that Miep had saved. O...
By the time Anne turned fifteen, the families had been in hiding for almost two yearsmore than 650 days. It was June 1944. The war was drawing to a close. Italy, once an ally of Germany, had surrendered. The Allied forces were freeing France. On a ma...
What was it like to live in the hideoutor the Secret Annex as it was called? First of all, the hideout was small. Although on two floors, the entire space was only fifty square yards. Behind the secret door were two rooms, one with a stove and sink,...
The day Anne turned thirteen, in June of 1942, one important person was not there. Oma had died that winter. Anne said that her birthday didnt mean much without her granny. But in the Frank family, there was always a lovely birthday party. This year,...
The Nazis robbed Jewish people of their rights, one by one. The Germans also took pleasure in making public spectacles of the Jews. They wanted to shame them. In the summer of 1941, the Nazis decided that Jewish children could not return to their old...
The Netherlands was now an occupied country. That meant the Germans were in control. Up went Nazi flags. Right away, life began to change for everyone. But it changed most of all for the Jews. Now all Jewseven children like Anne and her sisterhad to...
After Hitler invaded Poland in September of 1939, England and France declared war. This was the start of World War II. Italy sided with Germany. For the time being, the United Statesan ocean awaystayed out of the conflict. As for the little country o...
