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Anne Frank
Anne Frank notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anne Frank | The young German-born Jewish girl whose handwritten journal documenting her hiding in Amsterdam became a universal masterpiece. |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | The famous published title of Anne Frank's personal journal, originally written in Dutch as Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex). |
| Secret Annex | The hidden upstairs rooms located behind Otto Frank's pectin company at Prinsengracht 263, masked by a swinging bookshelf. |
| Kitty | The name of the imaginary friend to whom Anne addresses almost all her personal letters and entries in her clothbound notebook. |
| Otto Frank | Anne's father and the sole survivor among the eight hidden residents, who edited and published her diary after the war. |
| Miep Gies | The loyal outside helper (pronounced meep) who brought food to the Annex and preserved the scattered diary pages after the Nazi raid. |
| Fritz Pfeffer | The Jewish dentist who was given the pseudonym Albert Dussel in the diary, known for sharing a room and bickering with Anne. |
| Peter van Pels | The teenage resident (given the pseudonym Peter van Daan) who brought his cat Mouschi and shared a sweet romance with Anne. |
| Mouschi | The resident pet cat who accidentally urinated on newspapers covering a sack of potatoes in the attic due to a lack of a litter box. |
| Bergen-Belsen | The concentration camp where Anne and her sister Margot passed away from typhus in early 1945, just weeks before liberation. |
| Hello | The nickname of Helmut Silberberg, a friendly suitor with whom Anne walked and played ping-pong early in the book. |
| Fountain Pen | The personal item Anne humorously declared was cremated in a wood stove after it accidentally fell in and melted. |
| The Ghost Writer | The Philip Roth novel where narrator Nathan Zuckerman fantasizes that a woman named Amy Bellette is actually Anne Frank in disguise. |
| Quack Quack Quack | The title of a multi-page essay Anne was forced to write by her teacher as a punishment for talking too much in school. |
| Hanneli Goslar | Anne's close school friend (referred to as Hannah or Lies) about whom Anne had deep, sorrowful dreams while in hiding. |