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June 12, 1929
Anne Frank was born

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December 1933
The Franks leave Germany and settle in Holland in fear of persecution for being Jewish.

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12 June 1929 - Anneliese Marie Frank born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Holländer

30 January 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

December 1933 - The Frank family leave Germany and settle in Amsterdam

1935 - Nuremberg race laws prohibit marriage and sexual relations between German Jews and 'Aryans'

9 November 1938 - Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). A wave of anti-Jewish violence throughout Germany, Austria and areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia occupied by German troops

1 September 1939 - Germany invades Poland. Three days later Britain and France declare war on Germany

10 May 1940 - Germany invades Holland, Belgium and France. Four days later, Holland surrenders

20 January 1942 - Wannsee Conference to co-ordinate the 'Final Solution'

6 July 1942 - The Frank family go into hiding

14 July 1942 - Dutch Jews start being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau

6 June 1944 - D-Day. Allied forces land in Normandy

4 August 1944 - The inhabitants of the Secret Annexe are arrested and taken to Westerbork

3 September 1944 - The Franks are put on the last train to Auschwitz

October 1944 - Anne and Margot are transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Bergen-Belsen

6 January 1945 - Edith dies in Auschwitz

February/March 1945 - Margot and Anne die in Bergen-Belsen sometime between February and March, just weeks before the camp is liberated by the British

1947 - Het Achterhuis is published

1955 - The play The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett opens in New York

1959 - The Hollywood film of The Diary of Anne Frank, produced and directed by George Stevens, appears throughout the United States

1960 - The Anne Frank House officially opens to the public

19 August 1980 - Otto Frank dies

1986 - The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition is published in Dutch by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. It is translated into English in 1989

By Zoë Waxman

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The History Press | A timeline of Anne Frank's life

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12 June 1929 - Anneliese Marie Frank born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Holländer 30 January 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany December 1933 - The Frank family leave Germany and settle in Amsterdam 1935 - Nuremberg race laws prohibit marriage and sexual relations between German Jews and 'Aryans' 9 November 1938 - Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass).

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September 3, 1939
World War ll begins after Germany invades Poland.

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Diary of Anne Frank Timeline of Important Dates

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The families hiding in the "Secret Annex" are betrayed, arrested, and then taken to Westbork transit camp. (The Franks', Van Daans', and Dussel) It is told, that someone, unidentified called the police and told that there were Jews in the "Secret Annex."

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"After May 1940 the good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees..."

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June 12, 1942
It was Anne's 13th birthday. The very first gift she saw was a diary.
"A little after seven I went to Daddy and Mama and then to the living room to open my presents, and you were the first thing I saw, maybe one of my nicest presents."

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June 20, 1942
Anne mentions how writing in her diary is a new and weird experience to her. She thinks that nobody will be interested "in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl." But she says that she feels like writing especially since she want to get things off her chest. She also mentions how externally she seems to have everything, but her one true friend since she can't get any closer with her other "friends'.
"To enhance the image of this long-awaited friend in my imagination, I don't want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I want the diary to be my friend, and I'm going to call this friend Kitty."

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July 6, 1942
Anne's older sister, Margot, receives a call up notice to report for deportation to a concentration camp. This forces the Franks to go into hiding earlier than planned.

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July 9, 1942
Anne and her family are forced to go into hiding. They move into a hiding place located in Anne's father's office building.

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July 13, 1942
The van Daans move in with the Frank's sooner than expected and that is because of the Germans who were sending out call-up notices from July 13th-16th.
The van Daans were originally supposed to move in on July 14th.
"...so they decided it would be safer to leave a day too early than a day too late."

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Mr. Dussel joins the Franks and van Daals

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Mr. Dussel joins the Franks and van Daals

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November 16, 1942
Mr. Dussel goes into hiding with Anne's family and the van Daals.

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September 10, 1943
Anne writes about something pleasant finally happening rather than unpleasant things happening most of the time.
"...we heard an announcement: 'Here is some of the best news of the war so far: Italy has capitulated.' Italy has unconditionally surrendered!"

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Anne starts to develop feelings for Peter van Daal

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Anne starts to develop feelings for Peter van Daal

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February 27, 1944
"From early in the morning to late at night, all I do is think about Peter."

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March 19, 1944
"Yesterday was a very important day for me...  It was wonderful. He must have come to love me as a friend, and, for the time being, that's enough... I have the feeling that Peter and I share a secret. Whenever he looks at me with those eyes, with that smile and that wink, it's as if a light goes on inside me."
Anne and Peter have a long talk about life and their feelings. It is moments like these that are special to Anne.

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June 6, 1944
The long awaited invasion has finally begun.
"'This is D Day,' the BBC announced at twelve. 'This is the day!.' The invasion has begun!"

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June 13, 1944
Anne's birthday has passed and she is now 15. She opens up to Kitty, her diary, about life. Anne talks about the invasion, her irritation with Mrs. van Daal and Dussel, her affections for Peter and how she longs for him, her blooming love for the outdoors, and finally about society.

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August 1, 1944
This is Anne's last diary entry. Anne talks about her maturity and her fears. She also talks about how sad she is, being surrounded by so much negativity and mockery. She isn't exactly referring to her own family though. She wonders what she would be like if there were no other people in the world.

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August 4, 1944
The Franks and everyone else hiding in the Secret Annex are betrayed and arrested.

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WWII Home / Anne Frank Home

Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived and died during the Holocaust. The Frank family hid from the Nazis for two long years in a Secret Annex at the back of a warehouse. During that time, Anne kept a diary in which she not only wrote about the horrors of war but the everyday problems of being a teenager.

Fifty years after Anne's father published The Diary of Anne Frank, it has become the world's best-known memoir of the Holocaust.

If you want to know more about Anne Frank or the Holocaust, be sure to check out our Holocaust and World War II resources.

June 12, 1929:
Anneliese Marie, or Anne, is born in Frankfurt, Germany. Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. The first anti-Jewish laws are established.The Franks decide that the family must move to the Netherlands. The German army invades the Netherlands.Anne receives a diary for her 13 th birthday. Anne's older sister, Margot, receives a call-up notice to report for deportation to a forced-labor camp. The family goes into hiding the next day.The van Pels, another Jewish family originally from Germany, join the Franks in hiding.Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth and final resident of the Secret Annex, joins the Frank and van Pels families.The residents of the Secret Annex are betrayed and arrested. They are taken to a police station in Amsterdam and eventually to Westerbork transit camp. The eight prisoners are transported in a sealed cattle car to Auschwitz on the last transport ever to leave Westerbork. At Auschwitz, the men are separated from the women. Anne, Margot, and Mrs. van Pels are transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Edith Frank remains in the women's subcamp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.Edith Frank dies at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Otto Frank is liberated from Auschwitz by the Russian army. He is taken first to Odessa and then to France before he is allowed to make his way back to Amsterdam.Anne and Margot Frank die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of each other. Otto Frank arrives in Amsterdam, where he is reunited with Miep and Jan Gies. He knows his wife has died, but he does not know that his daughters have died too. He still has hope.Otto Frank receives a letter informing him that his daughters died at Bergen-Belsen. Miep gives Anne's diary to Otto. She found and hid the diary after the Franks' arrest and had been hoping to return it to Anne. The first 1,500 copies of Anne's diary are published in Amsterdam.

The Anne Frank time line is excerpted from The Reader's Companion to The Diary of a Young Girl. Copyright 1995 Doubleday. All rights reserved. Published by the Anne Frank Center USA and Bantam Doubleday Dell. Used by permission of the Anne Frank Center USA.

Anne Frank faced the threat of discovery and death every day while living in the Secret Annex. Despite terrible circumstances, however, her strength of spirit comes through in her diary. "...I still believe, in spite of everything," she wrote while in hiding, "that people are truly good at heart." Anne was one of millions of people during the Holocaust who found the courage to get through each day. Discover other Stories of Courage, and write about what you learn.

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WWII Home / Anne Frank Home Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived and died during the Holocaust. The Frank family hid from the Nazis for two long years in a Secret Annex at the back of a warehouse.

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September 11, 1944
Anne and the rest are transported to a camp in Amersfoort.

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October 1944
Margot and Anne are transported to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp near Hannover, Germany.

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Winter of 1944-1945
"The typhus epidemic broke out... as a result of the horrendous hygienic conditions, killed thousands of prisoners including Margot and, a few days later, Anne."

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March 1, 1945
Anne and Margot Frank die in concentration camps from typhus.

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Diary of Anne Frank Timeline of Important Dates

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The families hiding in the "Secret Annex" are betrayed, arrested, and then taken to Westbork transit camp. (The Franks', Van Daans', and Dussel) It is told, that someone, unidentified called the police and told that there were Jews in the "Secret Annex."