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Anne is born in Frankfurt, Germany
Her parents are Otto and Edith. She has a older sister named Margot. -
President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
Hitler is in the National Socialist German Workers Party, or the Nazi Party -
SS opens the Dachau concentration camp
First concentration opened in Germany. Intended to hold political prisoners. -
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
They were not convinced that Germany invading Poland was for defense. -
Germany invades Poland
Hitler claims the invasion was a defense action. -
Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
Ghettos were created in order to separate Jewish people from the rest of the community. -
Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers.
Italy and Germany signed the so-called Pact-of-Steel. -
Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance.
This completed the axis alliance. -
Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops.
This was the largest German military operation in WWll. -
The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
The attack was a complete surprise, and the Japanese wanted to destroy Americas Naval fleet. -
The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland.
The first Nazi extermination camp. It had 3 gas chambers and killed between 152,000 to 340,000 people. -
Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
Using crammed railroad car they were able to transport the Jews. -
Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany.
Nazi leader came together to discuss how they were going to get rid of the entire Jewish population of Eroupe. -
Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).
They felt the Jews were harmful to the "superior" German race. -
The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
The Japanese wanted to destroy the United States Naval fleet, and have a base closer to the US. -
Anne’s older sister Margot, received 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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The van Pels, another Jewish family from Germany, joins the Franks in hiding.
They were Hans (Dad), Auguste (Mom), and Peter (son). -
Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).
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Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.
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Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka.
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Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.
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Rescue of Jews in Denmark.
The Danish resistance corrodinated a flight of 7,200 Jews to neutra, Sweden. -
Soviet troops liberate Kiev.
The Russians liberated the capital city of Ukraine from the Nazis. -
Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary.
Almost half of the Jews killed at Aushcwitz were Hungarian, and were gassed within the first 10 weeks. -
D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.
The allies landed on the French coast, and began their march to take back Eroupe from the Nazis. -
The residents of the annex are betrayed and arrested. They are taken to a police station in Amsterdam and eventually to Westbrook transit camp.
To this day no one knows who betrayed the 8 residents of the secret annex -
Paris is liberated from German control
The allies took back Paris the capital city of France. -
The prisoners are transported in a sealed car to Auschwitz on the last transport to ever leave Westerbork. At Auschwitz, the men are separated from the women.
They were crammed in a car with little fresh air for over 20 hours. -
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Anne, Margot, and Mrs. van Pels are transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Edith Frank remains in the women’s sub camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Edith stayed at Aushwitzs because she was unable to work like the other three were. -
The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army.
This was the Germans last chance of staying in the war. The battle lasted a little over a month. -
Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland.
The Nazis were afraid that the Jews would be liberated before they could kill them. -
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.
He was the only member of the annex to survive at concentration camps. -
Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.
The Soviet army liberated more than 7,000 weak or ill prisoners being heald there. -
US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they capture the island.
The United States captured the island from Japan. -
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Anne and Margot die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of each other.
The sisters died of Typhus. Days apart from one another. Their official death date is now March 31st, 1945. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war.
His wife Eva Braun also killed herself by taking cyanide. -
Germany surrenders to the Allies.
With no leader the Germans are forced to surrender. -
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The first 1,500 copies of Anne's diary are published in Amsterdam.
They were first an abridged version, but now the whole diary has been published. -
The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated.
The United States had been working on the "Manhattan Project," for awhile. Harry S. Truman de died to drop the bomb to try and have Japan surrender. -
Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
These two bombs were the only use of neucular weapons in history. More than 129,000 people were killed. -
Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.
This was the end to the Second World War. -
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.
If Meip didn't do this than Anne Franks story would never been shared, and we would not know what life was like in hiding.
