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(Exact dates
are supplied wherever possible.)
| June 12,
1929 |
Anne Frank is
born in Frankfurt, Germany.
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| 1929-1932 |
The Great Depression. The National Socialist
Party (Nazis) gains support. |
| January 30 , 1933 |
German President Paul von Hindenburg
appoints Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor (prime minister)
of Germany. |
| April 1, 1933 |
The Nazis organize a general boycott of
all Jewish-owned businesses. |
| April, 1933 |
Otto Frank moves to Amsterdam, Holland.
The family soon follows.
|
| 1934 |
Anne begins school in Amsterdam. |
| June-August, 1935 |
"Juden Verboten" ("No Jews") appears
on signs in restaurants and stores all over Germany. |
| September 15, 1935 |
The regime decrees anti-Semitic "Nuremberg
Laws."
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| March, 1938 |
Germany occupies Austria. |
| July 5-13, 1938 |
The Evian Conference
is held in Evian, France. |
| November 9-10, 1938 |
Kristallnacht,
a night of anti-Semitic riots throughout German
and Austria, is initiated by the Nazis.
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| November 15, 1938 |
Jewish children are expelled from
German schools. |
| March, 1939 |
Germany takes control of Czechoslovakia. |
| September 1, 1939 |
The German army invades Poland,
sparking the beginning of World War II. |
| September 3, 1939 |
Britain and France declare war
on Germany. |
| April 9 - May 10, 1940 |
Germans invade and conquer Denmark, Norway, Holland,
Luxembourg, Belgium, and France. |
| February 22, 1941 |
Deportations
of Jews to concentration camps begin in Holland. |
| April, 1941 |
All Dutch Jews must wear
the yellow star. |
| June 22, 1941 |
Germans attack the
Soviet Union and begin to murder all Jews in their
path. |
| September, 1941 |
Young Jews are excluded
from Dutch schools and colleges. |
| October 14, 1941 |
Deportation of Jews from Germany
to concentration camps begins. |
| July 5, 1942 |
Margot Frank, Anne's sister,
is ordered to report to the Nazi authorities. |
| July 6, 1942 |
The Franks move into their hiding
place, "The
Secret Annexe." |
| July 13, 1942 |
The Van Daan family joins the
Franks in hiding. |
| 1942-44 |
Nazis search for Jews in hiding. Hundreds of
thousands of Jews throughout Europe are transported
to concentration camps and murdered. |
| March, 1944 |
The Nazis invade Hungary. |
| June 6, 1944 |
D-Day. The Allied invasion
of Nazi-occupied western Europe begins in Normandy,
France. |
| August 4, 1944 |
The inhabitants of
the Secret Annexe are betrayed and taken to Westerbork,
the Dutch transit camp. |
| September 3-6, 1944 |
The Franks, the
Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel are taken in a transport
to Auschwitz, a death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. |
| September 6, 1944 |
Mr. Van Daan is
put to death upon his arrival in Auschwitz. |
| October 28, 1944 |
Anne and Margot
Frank are taken to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration
camp in Germany. |
| November 24, 1944 |
Mrs. Van Daan is
taken to Bergen-Belsen. |
| December 20, 1944 |
Mr. Dussel dies in Neuengamme,
a concentration camp in Germany. |
| January 6, 1945 |
Mrs. Frank dies in Auschwitz. J |
| January, 1945 |
The Russian Allies liberate
Auschwitz and free the remaining prisoners, including
Mr. Frank. |
| March, 1945 |
Margot and Anne die of
typhus a Bergen-Belsen within a few days of one
another. |
| April, 1945 |
Mrs. Van Daan dies. |
| April 30, 1945 |
Hitler commits suicide. |
| May 5, 1945 |
Peter Van Daan dies in
Maauthausen, a concentration camp in Germany. |
| May 7, 1945 |
Germany surrenders unconditionally.
The war ends in Europe. |
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