e Diary of Anne Frank Study Questions Know: some of the important world events between 1929 and 1945 (see the Mr. Van Daan: • Mr.-Dussel: .. Miep Gies. Mr. Kraler: 3. Define flashback. The writer's use Anne's diary to do this. ruing the Hanukkah celebration, fear is caused amongst the group when they hear noise downstairs and Peter makes a loud noise the scares the person away, which turned out to be a robber.