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Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam,...

Timeline of Events

1942

6.12.1942

Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

6.14.1942

Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.

7.6.1942

Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

1944

8.1.1944

Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.

8.4.1944

The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.

9.3.1944

Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.

10.30.1944

Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.