Otto Frank immigrates to Holland

August, 1933

Edith and Margot follow December, 1933

Anne arrivesFebruary, 1934

Summer Olympic GamesBerlin1936

Boycott of Jewish Shops April 1, 1933

Germans hold a book burningTo burn books considered

“Un-German”

May 10, 1933

KristallnachtNovember 9, 1938

Germany Invades PolandWWII has begun

September 1, 1939

Germany invadesThe Netherlands, Belgium and

FranceMay, 1940

Otto Frank must register as a Jew and can no longer

own his business

May, 1940

Operation BarbarossaGerman Armed Forces

attack the Soviet Union

June 22, 1941

All Jews required to wear a Yellow Star

on their clothing

May 3, 1942

Anne receives her diary

June 12, 1942

Margot receives a call up for “work duty” which

means deportation to a forced labor camp.

The family goes into hiding the next day.

July 5, 1942

First Jews deported to extermination camps in Poland

July 1942

Battle for Stalingrad

October 27, 1942

SS General RauterAnnounces all Jews will be “removed”

from the Netherlands

May 1, 1943

Raid in Amsterdam3,000 Jews are deported to

extermination camps

May 26, 1943

Allies land in Sicily

July 10, 1943

Food situation dramatically worsens in the Annex

1944

D-DayAllied Invasion on

Beaches of Normandy

June 6, 1944

The Annex is discoveredThe Franks, and all other residents,

are arrested.

August 4, 1944

All 8 residents of the Annextaken by train to the

Westerbork Transit Camp

August 8, 1944

Margot and Annedie of typhus inBergen Belsen

Concentration Camp

March, 1945

Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany

January 30, 1933

After burning of the ReichstagGerman Parliament passes

the Enabling ActGiving dictatorial powers to Hitler

March 24, 1933

Hindenburg dies,Hitler becomes Fuhrer

August 2, 1934

Hitler receives 90% Yes vote to approve his new powers

August 19, 1934

Nuremberg Race Laws passed

September 15, 1935

32 Countries convene A League of Nations Conference in Evian, France to discuss aiding Jews fleeing from

Hitler

No action is taken as no country will accept them

July 1938

Nazis require Jews to add “Sarah” or “Israel”

as their middle names, in case their last name sounded to

Aryan.

Also required to stamp a red “J” on all Jewish passports.

July-October 1938

Germany invades Denmark and Norway

April 9, 1940

France signs an armistice with Hitler

June 22, 1940

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. The next day, US and Great Britain

declare war on Japan.

December 7, 1941

Hitler declares war on the United States.

Roosevelt asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany

saying, "Never before has there been a

greater challenge to life, liberty and civilization."

The US enters the war in Europe and will concentrate nearly 90% of military resources to defeat Hitler.

December 11, 1941

Beginning of deportation of Dutch Jews to Aushwitz

July 14, 1942

Deportation of Jews from Norway to Auschwitz begins

October 25, 1942

Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, at Majdanek 

where over 360,000 had been murdered.

July 24, 1944

The Van Pels join the Franks in hiding.

July 13, 1942

Fritz Pfeffer (given the pseudonym “Dussell” by Anne),

the eighth and final resident of the Annex,

joins the families.

November 16, 1942

Bookcase built to hid the entrance to the Secret Annex

August 21, 1942

Anne and her family receive news of Jewish friends and family

in Holland.

October 9, 1942

Workman startles Anne and her father by coming to do repairs

outside the Annex door.

October 20, 1942

The Annex exceeds their electricity ration, cannot use electricity for

two weeks.

November 28, 1942

Anne and Mr. Pfeffer (Dussell) argue over a new time schedule for

use of the desk in their shared room.

July 13, 1943

Break-in in the warehouse below the Annex

July 16, 1943

North Amsterdam heavily bombed by the Germans

July 19, 1943

The members of the Annex have to give away their radio

August 3, 1943

Italy surrenders

September 10, 1943

Anne’s prize possession, a fountain pen, is accidentally

destroyed

November 11, 1943

Anne’s friend Hanneli appears to her in a dream, begging for help

November 27, 1943

Anne begins to develop feelings for Peter

January 6, 1944

A second break-in in the warehouse below the Annex.

March 1, 1944

Warehouse is broken into a third time

April 11, 1944

Anne gets her first kiss

April 16, 1944