Question

Important events in the diary of Anne Frank

Answer 1

Anne Frank at her desk, aged 12, before the family went into hiding.

12 June 1929

Anne (Annelies Marie) Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany to parents Otto and Edith.

30 January 1933

Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. One month later, following an arson attack on the parliament building (Reichstag), Hitler introduces emergency laws that repress any political opponents.

20 March 1933

The first concentration camp in Germany opens, at Dachau, near Munich.

24 March 1933

The Enabling Act is passed by the Reichstag giving Hitler powers to rule by decree.

Summer 1933

The Frank family move to Holland to escape the growing persecution in Germany.

1 September 1939

Germany invades Poland in defiance of an Anglo-French ultimatum. Two days later, Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War Two begins.

10 May 1940

Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

12 June 1942

Anne receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.



Anne's beloved diary, which was saved from the Secret Annex by helper Miep Gies and returned to Anne's father Otto after the war.

5 July 1942

Margot Frank receives a call-up notice from the Nazis to return to Germany to work in a labour camp. The next day, the Frank family go into hiding in the Secret Annex above Otto's offices. They are joined by the Van Pels family one week later (Anne gave the Van Pels family the pseudonym Van Daan in her diary).

16 November 1942

Dentist Fritz Pfeffer joins the Franks and the Van Pelses in hiding in the Secret Annex (Anne gave Fritz Pfeffer the pseudonym Albert Dussel in her diary).

4 August 1944

The annex is raided by the security police following an anonymous tip-off. All occupants and two helpers are arrested and sent to Westerbork transit camp.



The doorway into the Secret Annex, with the specially adapted bookcase.

3 September 1944

The occupants of the annex are transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on the last train to leave Westerbork.

End of October 1944

Anne and her sister Margot are transported from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

March 1945

Anne and Margot both die of typhus, only a few days apart. Bergen Belsen camp is liberated by British troops on 15 April.

30 April 1945

Hitler commits suicide as Soviet troops close in on his bunker in Berlin. Eight days later, Germany surrenders to end World War Two in Europe.
Otto Frank was the only occupant of the Secret Annex to survive. Miep Gies saved Anne's diary following the raid on the annex and returned it, unread, to Otto after the war.

25 June 1947

Anne's diary is first published in Dutch. It has now been translated into 50 languages and is one of the world's most popular books.

Annex Occupants and Helpers



Anne Frank



Margot Frank



Otto Frank



Edith Frank



Peter van Daan



Petronella van Daan



Hermann van Daan



Albert Dussel



Miep Gies



Bep Voskuijl



Johannes Kleiman



Victor Kugler

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Answer 2

Hola !

Anne Frank was a great writer.

Some important events she noted in her diary -

◆ On 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany.

She wrote about it.

◆ About the World War 2 the countries which took part in it.

◆ About the Jews who suffered a lot in a country like Germany.

◆ She noted about the Jews taken to concentration camps to kill the news like the same way she and her sister Margot were taken to concentration camp.