Anne Frank
By Max Dulam
About Anne Frank
The Secret Annex...
Why She Went Hiding
Stages/ Timeline
12 June 1929
Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany to parents Otto and Edith.
30 January 1933
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. One month later, following an arson attack on the parliament building (Reichstag), Hitler introduces that he abolished every other party so he would be in power for a long time.
20 March 1933
The first concentration camp in Germany opens, at Dachau.
24 March 1933
The Enabling Act is passed by the Reichstag giving Hitler powers to rule by decree.
Summer 1933
The Frank family moved to Holland to escape the growing persecution of Jews in Germany.
1 September 1939
Germany invades Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War Two begins.
10 May 1940
Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
12 June 1942
Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday.
5 July 1942
Margot Frank receives a call-up notice from the Nazis to return to Germany to work in a labour camp. The next day, the Frank family go into hiding in the Secret Annex above Otto's offices. They are joined by the Van Pels family one week later.
16 November 1942
Dentist Fritz Pfeffer joins the Franks and the Van Pelses in hiding in the Secret Annex
4 August 1944
The annex is raided by the security police following an anonymous tip-off. All occupants and two helpers are arrested and sent to Westerbork transit camp.
3 September 1944
The occupants of the annex are transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on the last train to leave Westerbork.
End of October 1944
Anne and her sister Margot are transported from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Bergen Belsen concentration camp.
March 1945
Anne and Margot both die of typhus only a few days apart. Bergen Belsen camp is liberated by British troops on 15 April.
30 April 1945
Hitler commits suicide as Soviet troops close in on his bunker in Berlin. Eight days later, Germany surrenders to end World War Two in Europe.
Otto Frank was the only occupant of the Secret Annex to survive.
25 June 1947
Anne's Dad knew that his daughters dream was to become an author. So he decided to collect all of her pages in Anne's Diary and try to publish it. Anne's diary was first published in Dutch. It has now been translated into 50 languages and is one of the world's most popular books.
Otto Frank (Anne's Dad)
Otto Frank was born on 12 May 1889 in Frankfurt, Germany. His father Michael was a banker and he had two brothers and a sister. Otto studied economics, but gave it up to work in a bank. His brothers and himself were all conscripted to fight in World War 1.
Margot Frank (Anne's Sister)
Margot was born on 16 February 1926 in Frankfurt, Germany - the first child of Edith and Otto. She also attended school while she was in Amsterdam.
Edith Frank (Anne's Mum)
Edith Hollander was born on 16 January 1900 in the German city of Aachen. Her family were prominent in being Jewish and around the Jewish community and had emigrated to Germany from Amsterdam around 1800.
Diary
She Loved Her Diary
Anne Frank
(Herself)
Diary
She Loved Writing In Her Diary