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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
In March 2022, a group of World War Two experts and historians published their analysis of the conclusions and of the historical sources used in The Betrayal of Anne Frank; they contested the central claim that the Amsterdam Jewish council even had a list of Jewish hiding places that Van den Bergh could draw on, and concluded that the ...
- Biography, autobiography
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- Diarist
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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...
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 ...
- Frankfurt
- Anne Frank
- 12 June 1929 , Frankfurt
- March 1, 1945
Her diary of two years in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II became internationally known after its publication in 1947. It has been translated into more than seventy languages and is recognized as one of the most widely read books of the twentieth century.
May 22, 2015 · The History Learning Site, 22 May 2015. 18 May 2024. German-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.
Apr 23, 2019 · The Diary Begins. Anne Frank and her family fled Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933 and resettled in the Netherlands, where her father, Otto, had business connections.
