Time Line
May 12, 1889
Anne's
father, Otto Frank, is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
1900
Anne's
mother, Edith Hollander, born in Aachen, Germany.
1908-1909
Otto Frank
in America working at Macy's Department Store in New York.
1914-1918
Otto Frank
serves in the German Army during World War I. He's a lieutenant
1925
Anne's
parents marry and settle in Frankfurt, Germany.
June 12, 1929
Anne (Annelies
Marie) Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
1933
Frank
family moves to Amsterdam, Holland, when Hitler comes to power in Germany.
June 12, 1942
Anne receives
a diary for her thirteenth birthday. "I hope I will be able to confide
everything to you as I have bever been able to confide in anyone"
July, 1942
Margot
Frank gets a call to report to a transit camp. At first, Anne thought it
was for her father.
July 6, 1942
The Frank
family moves into the 'secret annex' joined by the van Daan family (van
Pels)one
week later.
Aug 4, 1944
The Franks
are arrested, taken to a police station, the to Westerbork, a transit camp
in Holland.
No one
knows for sure who turned them in. A while ago they thought it was a janitor
(?).
Sept 2, 1944
And and
the others in the annex are sent to Auschwitz.
Oct 30, 1944
Anne and
her sister, Margot, are sent to Bergen-Belsen.
Jan 6, 1945
Edith
Frank dies of starvation in Auschwitz.
Jan 7, 1945
Auschwitz
is liberated. Otto Frank is the only survivor from the annex. That's really
sad that he
was the only
one.
March 1945
Margot
dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen.
April 1945
Anne dies
of typhus in Bergen-Belsen. That's really sad how Anne and Margot die of
the same
thing near the
same time and how close it was to liberation of Bergen-Belsen.