Anne Frank
October 1944: Anne, Margot, and Mrs. van Pels are transported to the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp.
Bergen-Belsen after liberation by the British.
January 27, 1945: Otto Frank liberated from Auschwitz
Liberated inmates behind the barbed wire fence. After Jan 27, 1945. 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.
March 1945: Anne and Margot Frank die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Margot Frank dies in concentration
camp Bergen-Belsen from typhus in
March 1945. She had just turned 19.
Anne Frank dies in concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen from typhus, soon after
Margot. She was 15 years old.
January 6, 1945: Edith Frank dies of exhaustion inAuschwitz-Birkenau
Edith Frank witnesses her children leave Auschwitz, and becomes ill. She dies of exhaustion.
September 1944-May, 1945: Occupants of the Secret Annex die
Survivors of Mauthausen. The camp was liberated on May 5, 1945. Peter van Pels dies of
exhaustion in concentration camp Mauthausen in Austria on 5 May 1945. Hermann van Pels
is incapable of doing the hard labour in Auschwitz. He is gassed in September 1944. Auguste
van Pels dies somewhere in Germany or Czechoslovakia, between April 9th and May 8th
1945. In October 1944, Fritz Pfeffer is moved to the Neuengamme concentration camp.
Pfeffer dies in the sick bay on 20 December.
September 3, 1944: The eight prisoners are transported in a sealed cattle car to
Auschwitz.
The deportation of Jews from Westerbork. The residents of the Secret Annex are on the last
transport ever to leave Westerbork. At Auschwitz, the men are separated from the women.
August 4- 8, 1944: The residents of the Secret Annex are betrayed and arrested and sent
to Westerbork transit camp.
Westerbork. On 8 August 1944, the 8 occupants of the Secret Annex are taken by
train from Amsterdam Central Station to the Westerbork transit camp.
November 16, 1942: Fritz Pfeffer joins the Frank and van Pels families.
Fritz Pfeffer, a German refugee like the others, is a divorced dentist. He sends
his son Werner on a Kindertransport to England in 1939. His non-Jewish
German financee emigrates with him to Amsterdam but does not go into
hiding.
July 13, 1942: The van Pels join the Franks in hiding.
Herman van Pels was Otto’ s business partner. He, his wife Auguste and son Peter were
another Jewish family originally from Germany
July 5, 1942: Margot receives a call-up notice to report for deportation to a forced-labor
camp in ten days.
Margot Frank’s s call up order. The Franks go into hiding the next day.
February 1934-July 5, 1942: the Frank family take up residence on the Merwedeplein in
Amsterdam
Anne Frank (right) and her friend Sanne Ledermann in front of Anne’s home.
July 6, 1942- August 4, 1944: The Franks are in hiding
The hiding place
March 1939 : Anne’s grandmother moves to Amsterdam
Grandmother Holländer’s passport. In March 1939 she moves to Amsterdam to live
with her daughter Edith Frank. She died of natural causes in early 1942, just before the
family went into hiding.
Anne Frank, 9 years old - May 1939.
12 June 1942: Anne turns 13
The first page of the diary which Anne Frank receives for her thirteenth
birthday.
Anne Frank 12 years old - May 1942.
Margot (left) and Anne Frank on the beach at Zandvoort
in the Netherlands circa 1941-1942
Anne Frank, 11 years old - May 1941
Anne Frank writing at her desk in her room in
the Merwedeplein apartment, Amsterdam.
Circa 1940-41.
Anne Frank, 10 years old – May 1940.
Anne’s 10th birthday on 12 June.
Anne Frank, 8 years old - May 1938
Anne Frank, 7 years old - May 1937.
Anne (2nd from left) with friends in the
sandbox in July 1937.
Anne Frank, 6 years old - May 1936
Anne Frank during a holiday in Sils-Maria in
Switzerland. Summer 1935 or 1936
Anne Frank, 5 years old - May 1935.
Anne (right) playing with friends on the
Merwedeplein
September 1933: Margot and Anne move in with grandparents in Aachen, Gemany
Anne and Margot in Aachen, summer 1932. Anne in Aachen Septmebr 11, 1933..
August 1933- February 1934: The Frank family emigrate to the Netherlands
Otto is the first to leave in August 1933. The sisters and their mother move
temporarily to Aachen. Margot and Edith move from Aachen to Amsterdam in
December 1933, and Anne is the last to arrive, in February 1934.
January- August 1933: After Hitler comes to power, the Franks make plans to leave
Germany
Anne, Edith and Margot on the Hauptwache square in the center of Frankfurt am Main
in March 1933. Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. The first anti-Jewish laws are
established. The Franks decide that the family must move to the Netherlands where
Otto Frank has business connections. Otto leaves for Amsterdam in August 1933.
June 12, 1929: Ann Frank born
Anne as a newborn and being held by sister Margot, aged three. She was born
Annelies Marie Frank in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank.