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Anne frank id born in Frankfurt, Germany
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hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. The first anti-jewish lawsnare established. Anne family decides they must move to the Netherlands
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The German army invades the Netherlands
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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.
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June 12, 1942:
Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday. -
The van Pels, another Jewish family originally from Germany, join the Franks in hiding.
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D-day: Allied forces land in Normandy in northern France, and launch an invasion of Western Europe.
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Japan surrenders after the Unties Staes drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War two ends one week later.