Anne Frank Timeline

  • Anne receives diary

    Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday.
  • Margot receives notice

    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
  • Van Pals join

    The van Pels, another Jewish family originally from Germany, join the Franks in hiding.
  • Last memeber joins

    Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth and final resident of the Secret Annex, joins the Frank and van Pels families
  • They're betrayed

    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.
  • They're transportated

    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.
  • Edith Frank Dies

    Edith Frank dies at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  • Otto is free

    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.
  • otto is back

    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
  • otto finds out Anne and Margot are dead

    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.