12 June 1942 1 August 1944 Anne Frank started writing her diary. Anne Frank wrote her last entry in her diary.

4 August 1944 The hiding place was raided by the local police and the Gestapo, the eight people Otto Frank moved to run a company in hiding there were arrested. Amsterdam in September 1933, by February Two women who had been helping them, 1934 he has been joined by Edith and the find the diary and put it in a drawer for safe two girls. keeping. Anne Frank was born 12 June 1929, in Anne Frank’s family shared the hiding place Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her sister with 4 other people, also hiding because was 3 years older, and was also born in they were Jewish. Frankfurt.

In 1925 Otto Frank and Edith Hollander got 1952 married. They were both German and The diary was published in English, it was Jewish. The Frank family had been in called “The Diary of a Young Girl” Frankfurt am Main for hundreds of years. Anne and her family went into hiding on 9 In 1959 a Hollywood film is made called July 1942. “The Diary of Anne Frank”. It is a massive Otto frank had been planning to do this for success. over a year.

5 July 1942 25 June 1947 Margot Frank was ordered to report for slave The diary was published in Dutch, it was labour in Germany. called “Het achterhuis” (the backhouse). Anne Frank, and her sister Margot, died of 6 July 1942 typhus in a prison camp in February or Jews were banned from visiting friends March 1945. who were not Jewish.

14 July 1942 3 May1942 The Jews in Amsterdam were arrested and Jews were forced to wear a yellow star on sent to a prison camp called Westerbork. their coats, in the Netherlands. These arrests continue into the Autumn. 14 September 1940 10 May 1940 Jews were banned from going to the market Germany invaded the Netherlands, the in Amsterdam to buy things. Dutch surrendered 5 days later.

15 September 1941 9 January 1942 Signs were put up saying that Jews were Jews were banned from going to public banned from parks, zoos, restaurants, schools. hotels, cafes, cinemas, libraries and concerts, in the Netherlands. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came to The Nazi government in Germany power in Germany in January 1933. immediately started making laws against the Jews who lived there.

17 September 1944 Canadian soldiers invaded the Netherlands, 5 May 1945 with support from British, Polish and The Netherlands was liberated. American troops. 25-26 February 1941 19 April 1942 Dutch people protested about how the In all the churches in the Netherlands a Dutch Jews are being treated. They went on letter was read out protesting about how the strike, but soldiers forced them to go back to Jews were being treated by the Germans work. running the country.

26 July 1942 A letter was read out protesting about the treatment of Jews. This was in in nearly all Dutch churches.