Anne Frank Timeline 
January 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.
June 3, 1945 Otto Frank arrives in Amsterdam, where he is reunited with Miep and Jan Gies. He knows his wife has died, but he does not know that his daughters have died too. He still has hope.
March 1945 Anne and Margot Frank die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of each other.
October 29,1929 the great depression started
Summer 1933 Hitler becomes cancellor of Germany
Anneliese Marie Frank was born June 12,1929 in Frankfurt Germany
World War ll started September 1,1939
1939 The great Depression ended
May 10,1940 The German army invades the Netherlands
September 3, 1944 The eight prisoners are transported in a sealed cattle car to Auschwitz on the last transport ever to leave Westerbork. At Auschwitz, the men are separated from the women.
October 1944 Anne, Margot, and Mrs. van Pels are transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Edith Frank remains in the women's subcamp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
August 8,1944 the franks are taken to Westerbork transit camp.
July 13, 1942 Ven Pals joins the franks into hiding
July 5, 1942 Anne's older sister, Margot, receives a call-up notice to report for deportation to a forced-labor camp. The family goes into hiding the next day.
June 12, 1942 Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday
January 6, 1945 Edith Frank dies at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
August 4, 1944 The People of the Secret Annex are arrested and taken to a police station in Amsterdam
November 16,1942Fritz Prefer joins the Franks and ven pals familly
October 24, 1945 Otto Frank receives a letter informing him that his daughters died at Bergen-Belsen. Miep gives Anne's diary to Otto. She found and hid the diary after the Franks' arrest and had been hoping to return it to Anne
Summer 1947 The first 1,500 copies of Anne's diary are published in Amsterdam. : :