Comenius Project

The diary of a young girl

By
Anne Frank

SALVADOR MAURA
1st “Batxillerat” 2008/2009
IES JOAN BRUDIEU
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
The historical and social
context
The Second World War
 What is it?
• World War II was a war fought between the
Allies (France, Great Britain, URSS and United
States) and the Axis Powers (Japan, Germany
and Italy).

• It was called a "World War" because countries

from every continent became involved.
 Why it started?
• In the World War I Germany had to surrender a
select area of land and money as compensation
for the damage done and his army was been
reduced.
• But When Adolf Hitler reached the power
he started the World War II.
 When?
• It started in 1939 until 1945, when the Axis
Power surrendered to the Allies.
• Here is a map with all involved countries, at first:
 The influence of that war
• 60 million people died in the war, including about
20 million soldiers and 40 million civilians.
• All became involved in war. And when I say all I
refer to some business where changed to
produce ammunition for the war.
• In addition a lot of women had to work there
because all men where fighting.
• Food and clothes were rationed too.
• An atomic bomb was launched.
 Holland

Also called the Netherlands

 Typical things from Holland
• One of those things are flowers. They have a lot
of flowers; which, of course are sold.
• They also have very many mills,
because they have a really plain
country.
• And what I like most is that they are
under the sea level. So they need
those mills to dry land.
 Why Holland appears on the
diary?
• This is the country where Anne’s family thought
they would be safe.
• But they weren’t, because later on Germany
invaded Netherlands too and started to kill and
send Jews to concentration camps.
 Amsterdam

The capital of Holland

• It is situated in the west of the
country.
• It has a population of about seven
thousand people.
• After that I am going to put some
photos about some monuments in
Amsterdam.
It has architecture from XVI
and XVII
Anne’s house
 Webgraphy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Fra
nk
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_
world_war
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterda
m
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland
 Bibliography
• FRANK, ANNE. The diary of a young
girl, penguin reader, Harlow England,
Pearson Education Limited, 2008.