This document provides information about Costa Rica in three sections. It states that Costa Rica is a country in Central America with no standing army and seven provinces. It notes that Costa Rica has over 1,290 km of coastline and is home to many species of plants and animals. Bananas and pineapples are important crops. The document also provides biographical details about Anne Frank, describing how her family hid from the Nazis for two years before being captured and Anne dying in a concentration camp at age 15.
2. Costa Rica: Countries around the world
Costa Rica is a country in Central America.
Costa Rica is one of only 18 countries in the
world that has no standing armies.
Costa Rica has seven provinces:
Guanacaste, Alajuela, Heredia, Limón,
Cartago, San José and Puntarenas.
All peaple of Costa Rica speack spanish and
most are catholics.
Costa Rica became a democracy in 1889.
3. Costa Rica: Countries around the world
Costa Rica has over 1.290 kilometers of
coastline.
Costa Rica is home to over 9.000
species of plants, 2.000 species of
butterflies, and 876 species of birds.
On the Pacific coast fishing is an
important industry.
Bananas and pineapples are the most
important crop.
New industries are thriving in Costa
Rica.
4. Costa Rica: Countries around the world
Costa Ricans are proud of the services
provived by the government.
Costa Rica has the highest literacy rate in
Central America.
Futbol is the most popular sport in Costa
Rica.
The most popular food in Costa Rica is gallo
pinto.
Costa Rica are very polite. They greet one
another with a handshake or a kiss on the
cheek.
5. Anne Frank: Get to know the Girl Beyond her diary
The Nazis considered Jewish people responsible
for all the problems their nation had experienced
after World War I (1914-1918).
They decided that getting rid of Jews was the
solution to the nation´s poverty.
Anne was born in Germany, on Jun 12, 1929.
Life in Germany changed when Nazis, come into
power in 1933.
Mani Jewish people, including the Franks, decided
they needed to get out of Germany.
6. Anne Frank: Get to know the Girl Beyond her diary
The Franks moved to Amsterdam in the
Netherlands in 1933.
On September 1, 1933, Germany invaded
Poland, next invaded The Netherlands.
So the Anne´s father had a work and
searchered one place for live.
They found a place, but everyone must be
silent. They lived whit other people in Annex for
two years.
Bombing and air battles took place over their
heads.
Jewish people were rounded up and sent to
concentrations camps.
7. On morning of August 4, 1944, members of the
German secret police came to the Annex.
The police searched the Annex and took any valuables
they found.
The Franks and other people were arrested.
On September 2, they and more than 1.000 other
Jewish prisioners, were sent to a concentration camp in
Poland.
In November on 1944, survivors report Anne and
Margoth were starving and became very sick with
typhus, in April 1945, they died.
Anne was 15 and Margot was 19.
Anne Frank: Get to know the Girl Beyond her diary
8. Otto Frank was still alive at Auschwitz when the
camp was liberated by Russian troops on January
27, 1945.
He was the only one of the eight Annex members
to survive.
Anne´s words are a window into what is was like
to live in hiding during World War II.
They help people understand what it was like for
Jewish people to be persecuted by the Nazis.
Her diary also shows how brave some people are
when they see horrible things happening to
people around them.
Anne Frank: Get to know the Girl Beyond her diary