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Otto Frank - Anne's father was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Edith Hollander - Anne's mother was born in Aachen, Germany.
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Anne's parents marry and settle in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Margot Betti Frank - Anne's older sister - was born in February 16th, 1926.
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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was born in Germany to Otto Frank and Edith Holländer. Margot Frank was 3 years old.
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Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany and the first anti-Jewish laws were established.
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The Frank family relocated to Amsterdam, Holland to escape the growing persecution in Germany.
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The Nazis invaded Holland and the Germans ordered that Jewish children could attend only Jewish schools so Anne Frank and her sister were enrolled at the Jewish Lyceum.
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Jews were forbidden access to movie theaters or use public transport and all Jews were forced to wear yellow stars.
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Edith's mother, Rosa Holländer died
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Anne received an autograph book for her 13th birthday gift from her father - Otto Frank and decided to use it as a diary. Anne began to record life experienced in the Secret Annex including the daily tensions, the ups and downs of relationships, fears of being discovered, burglaries, problems with food and electricity and water, etc.
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Anne started adressing her diary to "Kitty"
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Anne wrote in her diary that she had been playing with 'Hello' more lately. Hello and Anne developed a relationship, but Anne said she has feelings for a boy named 'Peter'.
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Anne's older sister - Margot Frank was ordered to report for relocation to a labor camp
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The Frank family go into hiding in the "Secret Annex" - a room above and behind the company where Otto worked. Some trusted employees of Otto offered to help. They planned to hide here until the war is over, otherwise they had to enter the concentration camps. They had to be very quiet and hardly even move so people downstairs (workers) wouldn't hear them.
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This is the total hiding time (2 years) of the 8 people in the "Secret Annex" - the Franks, the van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer.
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Hermann van Pels (also known as Van Daan in Anne's diary), a partner of Otto Frank, together with Auguste and 16-year-old Peter van Pels, joined the Frank family in the 'Secret Annex'.
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The 7 members decided to take in one more, since they have enought food and room so Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and friend of the family were asked to join the secret annex.
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The Germans surrender in the battle of Stalingrad and Germany started to retreat and the people believed that it was going to end soon.
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Anne turned 14 and Otto Frank wrote her a poem.
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Mr. Voskuijl - Bep's father (Bep Voskuijl is a worker in Otto Frank’s office. Elizabeth (Bep) Voskuijl helped the family by serving as a liaison to the outside world) was diagnosed with cancer.
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Everyone celebrated and exchanged gifts in Christmas and Hanukkah.
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Anne heard on the radio that the Dutch will collect the diaries/stories after the war so she started reworking her diary in hopes of publication.
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The people who supply the Frank and others with food and vegatables were arested for letting some Jews hiding in their house.
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Anne shared her first kiss with Peter Van Daan - Petter ven Pels
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The final entry of Anne's diary was made.
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The 'Secret Annex' was searched by the German Security Police following an informer who was never identified. All of the residents of the annex were arrested and taken to the concentration camps
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They are all sent in a cattle car to Auschwitz. Once there, the men are separated from the women.
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Anne and Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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Anne's mother, Edith Frank dies of starvation at Auschwitz
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Margot Frank and Anne Frank died of typhus in Bergen-Belson
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Germany surrenders to end World War II in Europe
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Otto Frank returns to Amsterdam, not knowing whether his family were still alive, he was the only survivor.
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Otto Frank knew that Anne and Margot died at Bergen-Belsen. His loyal friend Miep gave him the diary written by Anne Frank that she found in the annex after the family was arrested.
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The diary of Anne Frank was published in the United States
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The movie "The Diary of Anne Frank" was released.
