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A timeline of Anne Frank’s life
12 June 1929 — Anneliese Marie Frank born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Holländer
30 January 1933 — Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
December 1933 — The Frank family leave Germany and settle in Amsterdam
1935 — Nuremberg race laws prohibit marriage and sexual relations between German Jews and ‘Aryans’
9 November 1938 — Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). A wave of anti-Jewish violence throughout Germany, Austria and areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia occupied by German troops
1 September 1939 — Germany invades Poland. Three days later Britain and France declare war on Germany
10 May 1940 — Germany invades Holland, Belgium and France. Four days later, Holland surrenders
20 January 1942 — Wannsee Conference to co-ordinate the ‘Final Solution’
6 July 1942 — The Frank family go into hiding
14 July 1942 — Dutch Jews start being deported to Auschwitz–Birkenau
6 June 1944 — D-Day. Allied forces land in Normandy
4 August 1944 — The inhabitants of the Secret Annexe are arrested and taken to Westerbork
3 September 1944 — The Franks are put on the last train to Auschwitz
October 1944 — Anne and Margot are transferred from Auschwitz–Birkenau to Bergen–Belsen
6 January 1945 — Edith dies in Auschwitz
February/March 1945 — Margot and Anne die in Bergen–Belsen sometime between February and March, just weeks before the camp is liberated by the British
1947 — Het Achterhuis is published
1955 — The play The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett opens in New York
1959 — The Hollywood film of The Diary of Anne Frank, produced and directed by George Stevens, appears throughout the United States
1960 — The Anne Frank House officially opens to the public
19 August 1980 — Otto Frank dies
1986 — The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition is published in Dutch by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. It is translated into English in 1989
By Zoë Waxman
