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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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