1. 1889 May 12 Otto Frank (Anne’s father) born in Germany
April 20 Adolph Hitler born in Austria

2. 1900
January 16 Edith Hollander (Anne’s mother) born in Germany

3. 1914
Otto Frank serves in German Army during WWI as a lieutenant (until 1918)
Adolph Hitler serves in German Army as a corporal (until 1920)

4. November 11 The Armistice, which ends WWI, is signed
1918
November 11 The Armistice, which ends WWI, is signed

5. June 23 Germany accepts the Versailles Treaty
1919
June 23 Germany accepts the Versailles Treaty

6. 1919
September 12 Hitler joins the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (political party)

7. 1923
January The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (The Nazi Party) holds its first rally in Munich, Germany

8. 1925 May 12 Otto Frank and Edith Hollander are married
July 18 “Mein Kampf” Hitler’s autobiography and anti-Semitic plan is published

9. 1926
February 16 Margot Frank is born

10. 1929
June 12 Anneliese Marie (Anne) is born

11. 1932
July 31 The Nazi Party receives 37.3 % of the vote and is asked to form a coalition government

12. 1933
January 30 Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

13. 1933
February Freedoms of speech and assembly are suspended by the Nazi government

14. 1933
March The Gestapo, or Secret State Police, is established. Dachau, a concentration camp for political prisoners, is built.

15. 1933
April 1 The Nazis declare a boycott of Jewish businesses as well as medical and legal practices. A law excluding non-Aryans removes Jews from government and teaching positions.

16. 1933
May 10 Books by Jews, political enemies of the Nazi state and other ‘undesirables’ are burned in huge rallies throughout Germany

17. 1933
Summer The Franks decide the family must move to the Netherlands as it is growing more tense in Germany. Edith, Margot and Anne join Edith’s mother. Otto Frank travels to Holland
July 14 Hitler bans all political parties except for the Nazi party.

18. 1933
September 15 Otto Frank establishes his firm “Opekta Werke” in Amsterdam

19. 1933
October Otto Frank’s mother moves to Switzerland

20. 1933
December Edith and Margot move to Holland

21. 1934
February Anne joins her family in Holland. Anne attends the kindergarten of the Montessori School.
January 1 Forced sterilization of the racially ‘inferior’ (primary Gypsies, African-Germans and the ‘unfit’ – the mentally disabled – begins)

22. 1935
September The Nuremberg Laws are passed defining Jews as non-citizens and making mixed Aryan and Jewish marriage illegal

23. 1936
March 7 Germans march into the Rhineland, violating the Versailles Treaty Summer Olympic games are held in Berlin.

24. 1937
Summer The van Pels family flees to Holland

25. 1938
March 12 Germany annexes Austria

26. 1938 December 8 Fritz Pfeffer flees Germany and arrives in Holland
November 9 – 10 Kristallnacht Jewish businesses and synagogues are looted and destroyed in Germany and Austria by order of the strike

27. 1939
March Edith’s mother comes to live with the Frank family in Holland
March 15 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia

28. 1939
September 1 Hitler invades Poland and starts WWII September Hitler implements the T-4 program authorizing the killing of the institutionalized, the physically disabled, and the mentally handicapped

29. 1940
April – May Germany invades Denmark and Norway, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg

30. 1940
December 1 Otto Frank moves his company into number 263 Prinsengracht

31. 1941 Summer Anne and Margot attend the Jewish School in Amsterdam
July 31 Hermann Goering authorizes Reinhard Heydrich to find a ‘Final Solution’ to the Jewish Question

32. 1941
**December 7 The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor – a US military base. The US has tried to remain uninvolved in the war, but this attack provokes the US to counter- attack, thereby going to war against the Axis Powers.

33. 1941
December 11 Germany declares war on the US

34. 1942 January Edith’s mother passes away
January 20 Heydrich mobilizes Nazi bureaucratic support for a ‘Final Solution’

35. 1942
February, March, April Auschwitz, Belzec and Sobibor all become fully operational death camps

36. 1942
June 12 Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday July 5 Margot receives a call-up notice to report for deportation to a labor camp.

37. 1942
July 6 The Frank family goes into hiding, leaving their home forever. They move to the “Secret Annex”

38. 1942
July 13 The van Pels family joins the Franks in hiding November 16 Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth and final resident of the Secret Annex joins the Franks and van Pels

39. 1943
February 2 The encircled German Sixth Army surrenders to Soviet forces at Stalingrad, Russia. The tide of the war beings to turn against Germany

40. 1943
June Order given for the complete liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in the Soviet Union and Poland

41. 1944
August 4 The residents of the Secret Annex are betrayed and arrested. They are taken to a police station in Amsterdam
June 6 D Day The Allies invade Western Europe

42. 1944
August 8 They are all taken to the transit camp at Westerbork September 3 The eight prisoners are transported in a sealed cattle car to Auschwitz on the last transport to ever leave Westerbork

43. 1944
September 6 Hermann van Pels is sent to a gas chamber

44. 1944
October 6 Anne and Margot are sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany

45. 1944
November 26 To hide Nazi war crimes, the demolition of the crematoria at Auschwitz begins

46. 1944
December 20 Fritz Pfeffer dies in Neuengame

47. 1945
January 26 Edith Frank dies at Auschwitz – Birkenau January 27 Otto Frank is liberated from Auschwitz by the Russian Army. He is taken first to Odessa and then to France before he is allowed to return to Amsterdam

48. 1945
February or March Anne and Margot die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of each other

49. 1945
April 30 Adolph Hitler completes suicide

50. 1945
Spring Mrs. van Pels dies in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia May Peter van Pels dies in Mauthause in Amsterdam
May 7 Germany surrenders and the war ends in Europe

51. 1945
June 3 Otto Frank arrives in the annex. He sees Miep and Jan Gies. He concentrates on finding the whereabouts of Anne and Margot

52. 1945
October 24 Otto Frank receives a letter telling him that his daughters died at Bergen- Belsen

53. 1945
November The Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals begin

54.
4/3/46 an article mentions Anne’s diary Summer ‘ copies of Anne’s diary are published by Contact Publishers in Amsterdam 1951 The diary is translated into English

55.
’54 The Dutch Red Cross officially declares that Anne and Margot died at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 ‘55 The play based on The Diary of Anne Frank opens on Broadway

56.
‘60 The Anne Frank House opens to the public 8/19/80 Otto Frank dies in Switzerland at the age of 91

57.
‘88 Rescuer Miep Gies writes Anne Frank Remembered ‘97 A new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank opens on Broadway