# 14 (p. 262-293)

Summary:

This section had both the climax and the falling actions in it.  The afterward includes a lot of information on Hitler's steps.  On August 2, 1944, they are discovered and piled in trains sent to Auschwitz.  On September 3, 1944, her father and Mr Van Daan are separated from the rest.  Dussel is sent away for medical care.  October 1944, Anne, Margot, and Mrs. Van Daan are sent to Belsen, Germany.  Anne "runs into" Lies in the camp, and she sees how the war has changed everything.  On January 6, 1945, Anne's mother died.  The date of death for Mrs. Van Daan isn't know, but she died sometime in there.  Otto witnessed the death of Mr. Van Daan by the gas chambers.  Dussel died in a Neuengamme camp after receiving medical help.  In February of 1945, Germans took Peter on a winter march west.  He was never seen again.  In late February/early March, Margot died.  A few days after that, Anne died a tragic death.  Otto was liberated and published Anne's diary for publication.

Vocabulary:

Divine Providence (p. 264): the agency of God over events in people's lives.

Tarried (p. 264): loitered

Impeccable (p. 264): faultless

Supercilious (p. 267): disdainful

Peevish (p. 267): cranky

Autocratic (p. 271): exercising unwanted power

Ruffians (p. 271): bullies

Virulent (p. 272): deadly

Acquiesced (p. 273): to pass without protest

Partisans (p. 274): a member of an organization who harasses the enemy

Implemented (p. 274): put into practical effect

Crematories (p. 278): a place where they incinerate corpses

Discussion Topic:

Is it right to kill someone even if they are bad?

How much would you have to hate a person to be able to kill them?

At what point do you have to interfere (i.g. the teacher gives a project with three days vs. Hitler)?

Why do you think that Otto was smart and fled Germany?  Why do some people stay and some go?

Passages:

p. 266-268, paragraph 2-ALL

It is very confusing, and I would like to have someone read it back over so that I might understand it better.

p. 280, paragraph 2-4

It is very touching, if that is the right word to describe the emotion that the two girls must have felt after seeing what they looked like after chatting about boys a few years.

Image:

I chose this picture and this image because they remind me of when Anne talked about when she met back up with Lies in the concentration camp.

I chose this image because on page 272 it talks about the Bavaria region.

This is a photo of a crematory.