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Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank is born in Frankfurt.
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Hitler become chancellor of Germany and the first anti-Jewish laws are established
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The first concentration camp opened at Oranienberg outside Berlin
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Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.
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Otto and Edith Frank realize they have to leave Germany. Otto went to Holland and the rest stayed.
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Otto Frank begins working and finds an apartment.
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Edith, Margot and Anne Frank leave Germany and join Otto in Amsterdam
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Anne Frank enrolls to a Montessori school.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany.
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Germany passes the Nuremburg Race Laws that deprive German Jews of their citizenship, their businesses, and their right to education
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German troops occupy the Rhineland
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The US and 32 other countries discussed about the growing Jewish refugee crisis but none of the countries would like to take in the Jewish refugee.
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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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Edith Frank's mother, Rosa Holländer, came to live with the Franks.
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The Germans ordered that Jewish children could attend only Jewish schools so Anne Frank and her sister were enrolled at the Jewish Lyceum.
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Dutch Jews are forbidden access to movie theaters or use public transport preventing Anne Frank from enjoying her favorite pastime
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Edith's mother, Rosa Holländer dies
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Anne receives an autograph book from her father for her birthday and Anne Frank decides to use it as a diary
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Anne's older sister is ordered to report for relocation to a labor camp
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The Frank family go into hiding in Amsterdam because of Margot's deportation order. 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 rear part of a house, used in the Diary of Anne Frank, translates as the "Secret Annex" in English.
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Hermann van Pels (also known as Van Daan), the partner of Otto Frank, together with Auguste and 16-year-old Peter van Pels, join the Frank family in the 'secret annex'.
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Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and friend of the family, joins the annex.
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The final entry is made in the diary of Anne Frank
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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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They were all sent to an overcrowded prison on the Weteringschans where they stayed for two nights
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They were then sent to Westerbork transit camp and assigned to the Punishment Barracks for hard labor as they were considered to be criminals as they were found in hiding
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They are all sent in a cattle car to Auschwitz. Once there, the men are separated from the women.
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Anne and Margot are transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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Anne's mother, Edith Frank dies of starvation in Auschwits
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Auschwitz is liberated. Otto Frank is the only survivor from the annex.
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The Russian Allies liberate the remaining survivors in Auschwits, including Otto Frank.
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Margot Frank dies of typhus in Bergen-Belson
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Anne Frank dies of typhus in Bergen-Belson
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Hitler commits suicide with his wife of two days, Eva Braun, their bodies are believed to have been cremated.
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Otto Frank returns to Amsterdam, not knowing whether his family are still alive
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Otto got news that Anne and Margot died at Bergen-Belsen. Otto's loyal friend Miep gives Otto Anne's diary which he found in the secret annex after their family was arrested
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Anne's diary, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in Amsterdam.
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Despite its success in the USA the book was at first rejected by several publishers in the UK. Once published and after receiving several good reviews it still failed to attract an audience and was out of print by 1953.
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Otto Frank and others establish the Anne Frank Foundation
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The Anne Frank House is opened in Amsterdam
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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
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The Hamburg Regional Court confirms the diary's authenticity