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Biography of Anne Frank
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Birth of Anne Frank
Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt am Main to Otto Frank and Edith Hollander. -
Hilter becomes Prime Minister
Adolf Hitler becomes Prime Minister and declares himself a dictator. An anti- jewish law is established. The Franks decide to move to the Netherlands. -
School Begins
Anne Frank starts school in Amsterdam. -
Invasion
German troops invade the Netherlands in search of Jews. -
Forced Apparel
All Jews that are Dutch are forced to wear yellow stars. -
Anne's thirteenth birthday
Anne is presented with a diary for her thirteenth birthday. -
Deportation to a forced-labor camp
Anne's older sister, Margot, gets called to go to a forced-labor camp. The next day, the Franks go into hiding. -
Hiding
The Franks move into the 'secret annex' with the van Daan family. -
The Annex gets more members
Another Jewish family (originally from Germany) join the Franks in hiding. -
The last person joins the Annex
The last resident of the Secret Annex ( also the eigth ), Fritz Pfeffer, joins the Franks and other families in hiding. -
Captured
The Secret Annex residents are betrayed and arrested to a police station in Amsterdam. They are then taken to the Westerbork, a transit camp in Holland. -
Moving Again
The prisoners are transported on a cattle car to Auschwitz. They are took the last transport out of Westerbork. When they arrive, male and female are seperated. -
The Ladies move away
Anne, Margot, and Mrs. van Pels are moved again to the Bergen-Belsen camp. Anne's mother stays in the subcamp at Auschwitz-Birkenau for women. -
Edith dies
Anne's mother dies at Auschwitz-Birkenau. -
Otto will return home
Anne's father is released from Auschwitz by the Russian army. He travels to Odessa and then to France before allowed to return to Amsterdam. -
Anne's sister dies
Margot dies at the Bergun-Belsun concentration camp because of Typhus. -
Death of Anne Frank
Anne dies within days of her sister's death with the same cause, typhus. -
Hitler dies
Hitler commits suicide as the war turns against Germany. Germany surrenders ending World War II in Europe. -
Otto returns home
Anne's father returns to Amsterdam, still unclued of his daughters' deaths, and is reunited with Miep and Jan Gies. -
Otto Receives Word of His Family's Death
Anne's father is finally told that Anne and Margot passed away already at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He is then given Anne's diary, found in the annex after the family was arrested, by Miep. -
Anne's gets known in Amsterdam
Anne's diary gets printed and published in Amsterdam. -
Anne's diary reaches the U.S
Anne's diary is published again but to the United States. It is titled, " Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl ". -
The Anne Frank House is available
The Anne Frank House opens to the public.