May 12, 1889 - Anne's father, Otto Frank, is born in Frankfurt, Germany.

1900 - Anne's mother, Edith Hollander, born in Aachen, Germany.

1908-1909 - Otto Frank in America working at Macy's Department Store in New York.

1914-1918 - Otto Frank serves in the German Army during World War I and attains the rank of lieutenant.

1925 - Anne's parents marry and settle in Frankfurt, Germany.

June 12, 1929 - Anne (Annelies Marie) Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany.

January 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor (Prime Minister) of Germany. Immediatley, he makes himself dictator. He and his Nazi party outlaw all other political parties and ideas. They begin to campaign to persuade the German people that their race is being poisoned by the presence of "non-Germans." This means Gypsies and other dark-skinned people, but it especially means Jews.

1933 - Frank family moves to Amsterdam, Holland, when Hitler comes to power in Germany.

September 15, 1935 - Germany passes the Nuremburg Laws. These laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship, their businesses, and their right to education. Some of Germany's 300,000 Jews flee to other countries. Many Jews, however, consider themselves Germans and don't want to leave.

July, 1938 - The United States and 32 other countries meet to discuss the growing Jewish refugee crisis. No country offers to take in Jewish refugees who have no place to go.

November 9-10, 1938 - Directed by the government, German citizens loot and burn 7000 Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. This becomes known as Kristallnacht, or "the night of broken glass." Thirty-thousand Jews are arrested and sent to concentration camps.

September 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland. Two days later, England and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. The Nazis sweep across Europe, intending to rule the entire continent.

1942 - Nation after nation falls to the Germans. The Nazis control most of Europe. Their plan to murder all of Europe's Jews is underway. They call it "the final solution." Many Jews are shot by death squads. Millions are shipped in railraod cattle cars to concentration camps. There they are tortured, starved, used for medical experiments, or worked to death, usually within months. Children and old people who are not fit for slave labor are sent to death camps. There, they are quickly murdered, often with poison gas.

June 12, 1942 - Anne receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

July, 1942 - Margot Frank gets a call to report to a transit camp.

July 6, 1942 - The Frank family moves into the 'secret annex' joined by the van Daan family one week later.

Aug 4, 1944 - The Franks are arrested, taken to a police station, the to Westerbork, a transit camp in Holland.

Sept 2, 1944 - Anne and the others in the annex are sent to Auschwitz.

Oct 30, 1944 - Anne and her sister, Margot, are sent to Bergen-Belsen.

Jan 6, 1945 - Edith Frank dies of starvation in Auschwitz.

Jan 7, 1945 - Auschwitz is liberated. Otto Frank is the only survivor from the annex.

March 1945 - Margot dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen.

April 1945 - Anne dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen.

April 30, 1945 - The tide of the war turns against Germany. Hitler commits suicide as U.S. and Soviet troops close in on Germany. Eight days later, Germany surrenders to end World War II in Europe.