Chronology of Key Events during Anne Frank's Lifetime


(Exact dates are supplied wherever possible.)

1929

  • June 12: Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany.

    • 1929-1932

  • The Great Depression. The National Socialist Party (Nazis) gains support.

    • 1933

  • January 30: German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor (prime minister) of Germany.

  • April 1: The Nazis organize a gereral boycott of all Jewish-owned buisinesses.
  • April: Otto Frank moves to Amsterdam, Holland. The family soon follows.

    • 1934

  • Anne begins school in Amsterdam.

    • 1935

  • June-August: "Juden Verboten" ("No Jews") appears on signs in restaurants and stores all over Germany.

  • September 15: The regime decrees anti-Semitic "Nuremberg Laws."

    • 1938

  • March: Germany occupies Austria.

  • July 5-13: The Evian Conference is held in Evian, France.
  • November 9-10: Kristallnacht, a night of anti-Semitic riots throughout German and Austria, is initiated by the Nazis.
  • November 15: Jewish children are expelled from German schools

    • 1939

  • March: Germany takes control of Czechoslovakia.
  • September 1: The German army invades Poland, sparking the Beginning of World War II.
  • September 3: Britain and France declare war on Germany.

    • 1940

  • April 9-May 10: Germans invade and conquer Denmark, Norway, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France

    • 1941

  • February 22: Deportations of Jews to concentration camps begin in Holland.
  • April: All Dutch Jews must wear the yellow star.
  • June 22: Germans attack the Soviet Union and begin to murder all Jews in their path.
  • September: Young Jews are excluded from their hiding place, "The Secret Annexe."
  • July 13: The Van Daan family joins the Franks in hiding.

    • 1942-1944

  • Nazis search for Jews in hiding. Hundreds of thousands of Jews throughout Europe are transported to concentration camps and murdered

    • 1944

  • March: The Nazis invade Hungary.
  • June 6: D-Day. The Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied western Europe begins in Normandy, France.
  • Auugust 4: The inhabitants of the Secret Annexe are betrayed and taken to Westerbork, the Dutch transit camp.
  • September 3-6: The Franks, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel ane taken in a transport to Aushwitz, a death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland
  • September 6: Mr.Van Daan is put to death upon his arrival in Aushwitz.
  • October 28: Anne and Margot Frank are taken to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in Germany.
  • November 24: Mrs. Van Daan is taken to Bergen-Belsen.
  • December 20: Mr. Dussel dies in Neuengamme, a concentration camp in Germany.

    • 1945

  • January 6: Mrs. Frank dies in Aushwitz.
  • January: The Russian Allies liberate Aushwitz and free the remaning prisioners, including Mr. Frank.
  • March: Margot and Anne die of Bergen-Belsen within a few days of one another.
  • April: Mrs. Van Daan dies.