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Otto Frank is born on May 12, 1889.
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Hermann van Pels is born on March 31, 1898 near Osnabrück , Germany as the son of a Dutch father and a German mother. .
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Edith Holländer is born in Aachen, Germany on January 16, 1900. She has two older brothers, named Julius and Walter, and an older sister, Bettina.
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Auguste (Petronella) Gusti Röttgen is born in Buer near Osnabrück, Germany. .
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Otto Frank and Edith Holländer get married in Frankfurt am Main on May 12, 1925.
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Auguste (Gusti) Röttgen and Hermann van Pels get married on December 25, 1925. She becomes a Dutch citizen, because by law women automatically take on the nationality of their husbands
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Margot Frank is born on February 16, 1926 on Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Peter van Pels is born on November 8, 1926 in Osnabrück, Germany.
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Annelies Marie Frank is born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her mother was Edith Frank, and her father, Otto Frank.
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Anne Frank is given a diary for her thriteenth birthday.
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Margot receives her call-up papers to report for a "work camp" in Germany.
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The Frank Family go into hiding in the secret annex.
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The van Pels famliy go into hiding in the secret annex.
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The people in the secret annex are arrested on August 4, 1944.
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Otto Frank gets Anne's diary published in the Netherlands.
