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World War 2 and Anne Franks Timeline
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World War 2 started on
September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation. From the invasion of Poland until the war ended with Japan’s surrender in August 1945, multiple nations were at war with each other. -
Invasion on Poland
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces. -
Battle of the Atlantic started on
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter blockade. -
Invasion of Poland ended on
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. -
Auschwitz opened on
I knew the month just not the day.
Auschwitz is the general term for the network of Nazi concentration and labor camps, established near the Polish city. Together this complex was the largest of all the Nazi death camps across Europe and could hold upwards of 150,000 inmates at any given time. -
Bergan Belsen opened in
The year is the only thing that I know.
German military authorities established the Bergen Belsen camp in 1940, in a location south of the small towns of Bergen and Belsen, about 11 miles north of Celle, Germany. Until 1943, Bergen-Belsen was exclusively a prisonerof war camp. -
Battle of Britan started on
A significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of targeting Britain’s air bases, military posts and, ultimately, its civilian population. -
Battle of Britain on
The Battle of Britain was a struggle between the German Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air force. Dowding’s Fighter Command which raged over Britain between July and October 1940. The battle, which was the first major military campaign in history to be fought entirely in the air. -
Pearl Harbor happened on
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
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Battle of Los Angeles started on
The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942 over Los Angeles, California. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. -
Anne Frank got a diary on
Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday. Anne got her diary from her parent. She was so excited and she wanted to write in it as soon as she got it. -
Franks went into hiding on
In 1937 the Frank family tries to leave The Netherlands and emigrate to Great Britain and in 1938 and 1941 to the U.S.A. but fail. Eventually it becomes so dangerous for them in The Netherlands that they go into hiding. Otto and Edith Frank are prepared. They have been arranging a secret hiding place and had already planned to go into hiding with their daughters on July 16. Due to Margot's call-up, the planned date is now moved much closer. -
Vann Daans join the Franks on
The van Pels, another Jewish family originally from Germany, join the Franks in hiding. They went into hiding so they didn't get caught by the Germans and not go to a concentration camps and die sooner -
Battle of Sicily started on
The Allied invasion of Sicily, named Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers. It was a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign and was the beginning of the Italian Campaign. -
Anne and Peter went on there Date
A few entries later, Anne begins talking with Peter van Daan about the birds and the bees. ... I created an image of him in my mind, pictured him as a quiet, sweet, .... Anne repeatedly claims that there are two distinct sides to her. -
Mr.Kraler got Ulsers on
During the occupation of the Netherlands by the Nazis, Anne Frank, her family and four other Jews went into hiding from July 6 1942 until August 4 1944, in a small annex at number 263 in Amsterdam. They were helped by four people, including Victor Kugler. -
Frank got caught on
On 4 August 1944, everyone in the Secret Annex is arrested. Someone has betrayed them. They are deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then on to Auschwitz. Otto Frank is the only person from the Secret Annex to survive the camps. The others all die. The identity of their betrayer has never been established. -
Mr. Van Dann died on
In Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners were killed with poison gas. In 1979 Otto Frank talked in an interview about the death of Hermann van Pels in the gas chamber: 'I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. -
Mrs. Van Dann died on
Mrs. Van Daan died at Belsen, although it is not known whether she was gassed or succumbed to hunger or disease. Any of those ways to die is awful. She went to Bergen-Belse concentration camp were all of the people in hiding went to. -
Dr.Dussel died on
From here he was deported to Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg and died on 20 December 1944. Charlotte Kaletta married Fritz Pfeffer posthumously on 9 April 1953. His son, Werner, survived the war in England and emigrated to the United States in 1947. -
Mrs.Frank died on
"Edith has taken ill, has a high fever. I want her to go to the hospital. Though there is a great fear of being gassed because every week Dr. Mengele goes to the sick-bay to pick out those women who in his opinion are too thin to be left alive. Despite everything, One morning new patients arrive. Suddenly I recognize Edith, she has come from another ward of the sick-bay. She is but a mere shadow of herself. A few days later she dies, totally worn out." -
Aushwitz closed on
The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps. All three camps used prisoners for forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow. -
Margot Frank died on
Margot Frank dies in concentration camp Bergen-Belsen from typhus in February 1945. She died before Anne but not long before Margot Anne died too. So they didn't have to live without each other long. -
Anne Frank died on
I couldn't find the date but I knew it was after Margot but I knew the year.
Anne Frank died in concentration camp Bergen-Belsen from typhus, soon after Margot. Anne was sick when Margot did so she didn't have to live without her sister long. -
Bergan Belsen closed on
Bergen-Belsen began as a prison camp for captured prisoners of war. It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. This camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money -
Hitler died on
Death of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. -
Peter died on
It is the middle of winter. These evacuations are called "death marches," because so many prisoners die of exhaustion or are shot by the guards. After a grueling journey, Peter van Pels arrives at Mauthausen concentration camp on January 25, 1945. He dies there on May 10,1945. -
World War 2 ended on
World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On 8 May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. VE Day victory in Europe celebrates the end of the Second World War on 8 May 1945.
