Anne Frank in the World, 1929 - 1945 Teacher Workbook

Chronology of Key Events during Anne Frank's Lifetime

(Exact dates are supplied wherever possible.)

June 12, 1929	Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
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."
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.
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.
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.