Anne Frank — Timeline
Key moments in the life of Anne Frank.
1929
Born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1933
Family moves to Amsterdam, Netherlands after Nazi rise to power in Germany
1940
Nazi Germany occupies the Netherlands; Anne attends Jewish Lyceum
1942
Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday on June 12; family goes into hiding on July 6
1942-1944
Anne writes diary entries while hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam for 25 months
1944
Family is discovered and arrested on August 4; transported to Auschwitz concentration camp
1945
Anne dies of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March, age 15
1947
The Diary of Anne Frank is published in Dutch by her father Otto Frank
1950
Diary published in English and German; becomes widely read internationally
1960
The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam at the location of the Secret Annex