Anne Frank and Sophie Scholl Biography

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    Economic crisis in Germany

  • Sophie Scholl was born in Forchtenberg, Germany

    Sophie Scholl was born in Forchtenberg, Germany

  • Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany.

    Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany.

  • Sophie moves to Munich with her family

    There, she attends a secondary school for girls.
  • The Franks moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    The Franks moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    Her father became the managing director of a jam making company ( the Dutch Opekta Company).
  • Sophie joins the Bund Deutscher mädel, the League of German Girls.

    Sophie joins the Bund Deutscher mädel, the League of German Girls.

    This was the female part of the Hitler Youth Group, which supported nazism.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

  • Anne began attending Amsterdam's Sixth Montessori School.

    Anne began attending Amsterdam's Sixth Montessori School.

  • Nuremberg Laws

  • Sophie's siblings are arrested for participating in anti-Nazi activities with the German Youth Movement.

    Sophie's siblings are arrested for participating in anti-Nazi activities with the German Youth Movement.

    Sophie become highly disillusioned with Nazism.

  • Night of Broken Glass

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    World War II

  • Anne and her sister were forced to transfer to a segregated Jewish school.

    Otto signed ownership over to two of his associates while continuing to run the company from behind.
  • Sophie graduates from High school, and begins training to become a kindergarten teacher.

    Sophie graduates from High school, and begins training to become a kindergarten teacher.

    She does so to avoid having to serve in the Reichsarbeitsdienst, the National Labor Service.

  • The Nazi occupiers imposed anti-Jewish measures in the Netherlands.

    Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David at all times and observe a strict curfew; they were also forbidden from owning businesses.

  • German army invaded the Netherlands

  • Start of the Final Solution to the "Jewish Problem"

  • Sophie begins studying philosophy and biology at the University of Munich

    Sophie begins studying philosophy and biology at the University of Munich

    Her brother was studying medicine there.
  • Sophie joins the White Rose

    Sophie joins the White Rose

    It was a group that opposed Nazism and wanted to convince Germans to protest by distributing leaflets and graffitiing public spaces.
  • Anne's parents gave her a red-checkered diary for her 13th birthday.

    Anne's parents gave her a red-checkered diary for her 13th birthday.

    She wrote her first entry, addressed to an imaginary friend named Kitty.
  • The Frank family went into hiding in the back of Otto's company building, called the Secret Annex.

    The Frank family went into hiding in the back of Otto's company building, called the Secret Annex.

    They went into hiding because Margot received an official summons to report to a Nazi work camp in Germany. Life in the small apartment, which Anne Frank referred to as the Secret Annex, was tense. The group lived in constant fear of being discovered and could never go outside. They had to remain quiet during daytime in order to avoid detection by the people working in the warehouse below. There hid 8 people, Anne's family (4), the Van Pels family(3) and Fritz Pfeffer.
  • Sophie and his brother were executed

    Sophie and his brother were executed

    The Scholl siblings tossed hundreds of the pamphlets into the atrium of the University of Munich. It was a daring act of public protest, and it cost them their lives; they were executed soon after at the hands of the German secret police after being given an unfair trial. Sophie's final words were: “Such a fine, sunny day, and i have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action.

  • Anne's family is found by the nazis

    A German secret police officer accompanied by four Dutch Nazis stormed into the Secret Annex, arresting everyone that was hiding there including Frank and her family.

  • Anne's family and the people living in theSecret Annex were taken to Camp Westerbork, a concentration camp in the Netherlands.

  • Anne's family was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

    Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the men and women were separated.

  • Anne and Margot were again transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.

  • Anne and her sister Margot died because of typhus.

    Anne and her sister Margot died because of typhus.

    Anne was just 15 years old.
  • Anne's mother dies in Auschwitz

    Anne's mother dies in Auschwitz