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Find out more about the time in which Anne Frank lived. View 34 events that occurred between 1914 and 1960, displayed on a clear timeline.
- Maps of the First World War
- Aug. 2, 1914 War enthusiasm
- April 22, 1915 The German army uses poison gas against French troops
- Aug. 6, 1915 Otto Frank in the First World War
- July 1, 1916 France Hitler as a soldier in the First World War
- Dec. 1, 1916 Fritz Pfeffer in military service
- April 6, 1917 Washington The United States declare war on Germany
- Oct. 5, 1917 Ruins after the Battle of Passchendaele
- Nov. 7, 1917 Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) The Russian Revolution: Armistice with Germany
- Famine in Germany
- Nov. 9, 1918 November Revolution: Germany becomes a republic
- Nov. 10, 1918 Eijsden, Netherlands The German emperor flees to the Netherlands
- Nov. 11, 1918 Compiègne Germany agrees on an armistice with the United Kingdom and France
- Nov. 30, 1918 The Belgian army occupies Aachen
- Altered frontiers in Europe
- March 13, 1920 Failed coup in Germany
- Dec. 1, 1920 Poverty and hunger in Vienna: Miep Gies comes to the Netherlands
- Police officers guard a bakery in Berlin
- Nov. 18, 1919 The stab-in-the-back myth
- Nov. 8, 1923 Adolf Hitler commits a coup and fails
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Anne Frank was a German girl and Jewish victim of the Holocaust who is famous for keeping a diary of her experiences. Anne and her family went into hiding for two years to avoid Nazi persecution. Her documentation of this time is now published in The Diary of a Young Girl.
She was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her parents were Otto and Edith Frank. For the first 5 years of her life, Anne lived with her parents and older sister, Margot, in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt. After the Nazis came to powerin 1933, Otto Frank fled to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where...
During the first half of July 1942, Anne and her family went into hiding. They were eventually joined by four other Jews as well—Hermann, Auguste, and Peter van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer. For two years, they lived in a secret apartment at 263 Prinsengracht Street. The apartment was located behind the business offices where Otto Frank had worked as co...
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Apr 22, 2024 · Anne Frank House, museum dedicated to German Jewish diarist Anne Frank located in the canal house in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where Frank and her family and four other Jewish people hid from Nazis from 1942 until they were betrayed and discovered by the Gestapo in 1944. The museum, which opened in 1960, also includes two adjacent buildings.
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Jewish teenager Anne Frank was just 13 years old when she went into hiding with her parents, older sister and four other Jews following the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. Between 1942 and 1944, Anne kept a personal diary, recording life in the secret annex in Amsterdam, her ambitions for the future and her fear at being ...
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Lower Saxony
- 12 June 1929 , Frankfurt
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The Franks lived in the middle-class Jewish neighborhood of Merwedeplein in the southern part of the city, and Anne easily acculturated to Dutch society. She quickly learned Dutch, made new friends, and went to a Dutch school near her home until she was in sixth grade before being accepted into the Jewish Lyceum where Margot also attended school.
Apr 23, 2019 · The Diary of Anne Frank is the first, and sometimes only, exposure many people have to the history of the Holocaust. Meticulously handwritten during her two years in hiding, Anne's diary remains one of the most widely read works of nonfiction in the world. Anne has become a symbol for the lost promise of the more than one million Jewish ...
May 22, 2015 · The family started a new life in Amsterdam in autumn of 1933 and Anne attended the Montessori School throughout the 1930s, until 1 September 1939 when World War II was ignited with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.
