1889
May 12 – Otto Frank (Anne's father), is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1890
January 16 – Edith Holl"nder (Anne's mother), is born in Aachen, Germany.
1925
Edith & Otto get married.
1926
Margot Frank is born
1929
Anne Frank is born
1933
The Franks decide that the family must move to the Netherlands because of increasing tensions in Germany. Edith, Margot and Anne Frank join Grandmother Hollander in Aachen. Otto Frank travels to Holland.
January - Edith and Margot Frank move to Holland.
February - Anne joins them in Holland.
1941
Anne and Margot attend the Jewish School Amsterdam.
1942
June 12, 1942- Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday.
July 5- Margot receives a call-up notice to report for deportation to a labor camp. The family goes into hiding the next day.
July 13- The van Pels family, another Jewish family originally from Germany, joins the Frank family in hiding.
November 16- Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth and final resident of the Secret Annex,
joins the Frank and van Pels families.
1944
August - The residents of the Secret Annex are betrayed and arrested. They are taken to a police station in Amsterdam and eventually to the Westerbork transit camp.
August 8 - They are all taken to the camp at Westerbrook.
September 3 - The eight prisoners are transported in a sealed cattle car to Auschwitz, on the last transport ever to leave Westerbork. Hermann van Pels is gassed on September 6, 1944.
October 6 - Anne and Margot Frank are sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
December 20 - Fritz Pfeffer dies in Neuengame.
1945
January 6 - Edith Frank dies at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
January 27 - Otto Frank is liberated from Auschwitz by the Russian Army. He is taken first to Odessa and then to France before he is allowed to make his way back to Amsterdam.
February or March - Anne and Margot Frank die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of each other.
May - Peter van Pels dies in Mauthausen.
1980
August 19 - Otto Frank dies in Birsfelden, Switzerland. He is 91.
Margot & her younger sister Anneke
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