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1929 |
The Anne Frank timeline starts on June 12, 1929 when Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Otto Frank and Edith Holländer. Margot Frank (1926–1945) was older her sister |
1933 |
January 30: Adolf Hitler becomes
Chancellor of Germany and the first anti-Jewish laws are
established |
1934 |
January: Otto Frank begins working at
the Opekta Worksand finds an apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede
Square) in Amsterdam |
1935 |
September 15: Germany passes the Nuremburg Race Laws that deprive German Jews of their citizenship, their businesses, and their right to education |
1936 |
March 7: German troops occupy the Rhineland |
1938 |
July: The United States and 32 other
countries meet to discuss the growing Jewish refugee crisis but
no country offers to take in Jewish refugees |
1939 |
September 1: Germany invades Poland |
1940 |
May 10: The Germans invade and occupy
the Netherlands |
1941 |
January 8: Dutch Jews are forbidden
access to movie theaters or use public transport preventing Anne
Frank from enjoying her favorite pastime |
1942 |
January: Edith's mother, Rosa Holländer
dies |
1943 |
February: The Germans surrender in the battle of Stalingrad and Germany starts retreating. |
1944 |
August 1: The final entry is made in the
diary of Anne Frank |
1945 |
January 6: Anne's mother, Edith Frank
dies of starvation at Auschwitz |
1947 |
Anne's diary, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in Amsterdam. |
1952 |
June 16: The diary of Anne Frank is published in the United States |
1957 |
May 3: Otto Frank and others establish the Anne Frank Foundation |
1959 |
Otto Frank sues former Hitler youth member called Lothar Stielau, who publishes a school paper stating Anne's diary is a forgery |
1960 |
May 3: The Anne Frank House is opened in
Amsterdam |
1963 |
Otto Frank establish a charitable foundation in Basel, Switzerland called Anne Frank Fonds |
1976 |
Otto Frank sues Heinz Roth of Frankfurt for publishing pamphlets stating that Anne's diary was a forgery. The judge rules that Roth will be fined and sentenced to six months' in jail if he does not cease and desist |
1986 |
The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation commissions a forensic analysis of the diary which reveals that the diary is authentic and that the ink used was available during the time the diary was written |
1990 |
March 23: The Hamburg Regional Court confirms the diary's authenticity. |
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