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Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Her parents were Otto and Edith Frank, and she had a sister named Margot.
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"September 15: Germany passes the Nuremburg Race Laws that deprive German Jews of their citizenship, their businesses, and their right to education
: Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany." -
Otto Frank begains working at the Opeka workstand finds an apartment on the Merwedeplein in Amsterdam
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The Frank family moved to the Netherlands to avoid Hitler
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July: The United States and 32 other countries meet to discuss the growing Jewish refugee crisis but no country offers to take in Jewish refugees
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November 9/10: Kristallnacht- The Night of Broken Glass when German citizens loot and burn 7000 Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. 30,000 Jews are arrested and sent to concentration camps
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Otto Frank starts a second company in partnership with Hermann van Pels, a Jewish butcher, who had also fled from Germany with his family
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July 6: The Frank family go into hiding in Amsterdam because of Margot's deportation order. Otto Frank leaves a note hinting that the family were going to Switzerland and they behave as if they are going on a journey. The Diary of Anne Frank records that she has to leave behind her cat called Moortje. The Frank family move into rooms above and behind the company's premises in a street along one of Amsterdam's canals. Some trusted employees of Otto Frank offer to help them. The Dutch word for the
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August 4: The 'secret annex' was stormed by the German Security Police following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified. All of the residents of the annex are arrested and taken to the Gestapo headquarters where they were interrogated and held overnight
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Otto Frank sues Heinz Roth of Frankfurt for publishing pamphlets stating that Anne's diary was a forgery. The judge rules that Roth will be fined and sentenced to six months' in jail if he does not cease and desist
