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Key Events during Anne Frank’s Lifetime. June 12, 1929. Ann Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany. 1929 - 1932. The Great Depression. The National socialist Party ( Nazis) gains support. 1933.
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June 12, 1929 • Ann 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 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.
1934 • Ann 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 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.
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.
1940 • April 9 – May 10: Germany invades 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 Dutch schools and colleges. • October 14: Deprotation of Jews rom Germany to concentration camps begins.
1942 • July 5: Margot Frank, Anne’s 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
1942-1944 • Nazis search for Jews in hiding. Hundreds of thousands of Jews throughout Europe are transported to concentratin camps and murdeded.
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.
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
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
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.