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Anneliese Marie, or Anne, is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. The first anti-Jewish laws are established. The Franks decide that the family must move to the Netherlands.
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The German army invades the Netherlands,
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Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday.
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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.
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The van Pels, another Jewish family originally from Germany, join the Franks in hiding.
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Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth and final resident of the Secret Annex, joins the Frank and van Pels families.
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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.
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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.
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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 subcamp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Edith Frank dies at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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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.
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Anne and Margot Frank die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of each other.
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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.
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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.
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The first 1,500 copies of Anne's diary are published in Amsterdam.
