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Anna's Birth
On June 12, 1929, the daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank - Hollander, Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany. She was a jewish child. -
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The Frank's Experiences during the Holocaust
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The Frank's Moving
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Hiler's Rise
Adolf Hilter the chancellor of Germany and the first Anti Jewish laws were established. -
Anne's New Schooling in Amsterdam
Anne and Margot started at the Montessori school in Amsterdam. Anne had many friends, German and Jewish, and was very bright and loved her education. -
Otto's Quote
To quote Otto, "The good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capilation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the jew." -
Anne's First Diary
On her 13th birthday, in the summer of 1942, during the German occupation of Holland she recieved and began writing a diary listing her everyday experiences. -
The Summoning
Margot recieved a official summoning to report to a Nazi work capmp in Germany. -
The New Hiding
The Frank's went into hidng because her mother was sentenced to go to a Nazi death camp. -
The Finding
On August 4, 1944, The Nazi gestapo discovered the Frank's secert annix. This resulted in the Frank's departure to the Nazi death camps. -
Immediate Arrival
In the chaos that marked the unloading of the trains, the men were forcibly separated from the women and children, and Otto Frank was wrenched from his family. Of the 1,019 passengers, 549—including all children younger than 15—were sent directly to the gas chambers. Frank had turned 15 three months earlier and was one of the youngest people to be spared from her transport. She was soon made aware that most people were gassed upon arrival. -
Every Day Life in the Camp
With the other females not selected for immediate death, Frank was forced to strip naked to be disinfected, had her head shaved and was tattooed with an identifying number on her arm. The women were used as slave labour and Frank was forced to haul rocks and they were crammed into overcrowded barracks. -
Leaving a Mother
On October 28, 1944, Margot and Anne Frank were forced to be seperated from their mother as they made their way to another concentration camp. Later, Edith Frank, their mother died of starvation. -
Disease and Death
In March 1945 a typhus epidemic spread through the camp, killing 17,000 prisoners. As the epidemic spread Margot fell from her bunk in her weakened state and was killed by the shock. A few days later, Anne died from typhos. This was only a few weeks before the camp was liberated. After liberation, the camp was burned in an effort to prevent further spread of disease, and Anne and Margot were buried in a mass grave -
Anne's Diary is Discovered
In 1947, Anne's diary was discovered undisturbed in the Amsterdam hiding place she resided in.