Key Events during Anne Frank

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Key Events during Anne Franks Lifetime
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June 12, 1929

• Ann Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany

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1929 - 1932

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

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1933

• January 30 German President Paul von Hindenburg
  appoints Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of
  Germany.
• April 1 the Nazis organize a general boycott of
  all Jewis-owned buisnesses.
• April Otto Frank movers to Amsterdam, Holland.
  His family soon follows.

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1934

• Ann begins school in Amsterdam.

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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.

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1938

• March Germany occupies Astria.
• November 9-10 Kristallnacht, and night of
  anti-Semitic riots throughout Germany and
  Austria, is initiated by the Nazis.
• November 15 Jewish children are expelled from
  German schools.

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1939

• March Germany takes control of Czechoslovakia.
• September 1 The German army invades Poland,
  sparking the beginning of Workd War II.
• September 3 Britain and France declare ware on
  Germany.

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1940

• April 9 May 10 Germany invades and conquer
  Denmark, Norway, Holland Luxembourg, Belgium and
  France.

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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 Dutch
  schools and colleges.
• October 14 Deprotation of Jews rom Germany to
  concentration camps begins.

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1942

• July 5 Margot Frank, Annes sister, is ordered
  to report to the Nazi authorities.
• July 6 The Franks move into their hiding place,
  The Secret Annex.
• July 13 The Van Daan family joins the Franks in
  hiding

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1942-1944

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

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1944

• March The Nazis invade Hungary.
• June 6 D-Day. The Allied invasion of
  Nazi-occupied western Europe begins in Normandy,
  France.
• August 4 The inhabitants of the Secret Annex
  are betrayed and taken to Westerbork, the Dutch
  transit camp.
• September 3-6 The Franks, the VanDaans, and Mr.
  Dussel are taken in a transport to Auschwitz, a
  death camp in nazi-occupied Poland.

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1944 Cont.

• September 6 Mr. Van Daan is put to death upon
  his arrival in Auschwitz.
• October 28 Anne and Margot Frank are taken to
  Gergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in Germanuy
• November 24 Mrs. Van Daan is taken to
  Bergen-Belsen.
• December 20 Mr. Dussel dies in Neuengamme, a
  concentration camp in Germany

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1945

• January6 Mrs. Frank dies in Auschwitz.
• January The Russian Allies liberate Auschwitz
  and free the remaining prisoners, including Mr.
  Frank.
• March margot and Anne Die of typhus in
  Bergen-Belsen within a few days of one another.
• April 15 Bergen-Belsen is liberated

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1945 Cont.

• April Mrs. Van Daan dies.
• April 30 Hitler commits suicide.
• May 5 Peter Van Daan dies in Maauthausen, a
  concentration camp in Germany.
• May 7 Germany surrenders unconditionally. The
  war ends in Europe.