Timeline of Anne Frank's Life

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
06/12/1929	Anne Frank is born	Anneliese Marie, or Anne, is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
06/21/1933	Hitler takes over	Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. The first anti-Jewish laws are established. The Franks decide that the family must move to the Netherlands.
05/10/1940	German army invades	The German army invades the Netherlands,
06/12/1942	Anne recieves her diary	Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday.
07/05/1942	The hiding begins	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.
07/13/1942	Another family joins	The van Pels, another Jewish family originally from Germany, join the Franks in hiding.
11/16/1942	Final resident joins	Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth and final resident of the Secret Annex, joins the Frank and van Pels families.
08/04/1944	Betrayed and arrested	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.
09/03/1944	Transported	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.
10/01/1944	Anne is transported	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.
01/06/1945	Anne's mom dies	Edith Frank dies at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
01/27/1945	Anne's dad is liberated	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.
03/01/1945	Anne and Margot die	Anne and Margot Frank die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of each other.
06/03/1945	Anne's dad still alive and has hope	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.
10/24/1945	Otto hears the bad news and receives Anne's Diary	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.
06/21/1947	Diary published	The first 1,500 copies of Anne's diary are published in Amsterdam.