Anne Frank became world famous for her diary. This story tells you more about her life. Click through the slides for the story and on the markers on the map for more information.

1929 Anne Frank is born

Anne Frank in kindergarten

Anne Frank at the Sixth Montessori School

Otto Frank establishes Opekta in the Netherlands

The Frank family lives at Merwedeplein

Margot Frank at the Jekerschool

Anne Frank and Hanneli Goslar friends in kindergarten

Opekta's first demonstration

Otto Frank at the Dameskroniek fair

Miep Gies works at Opekta

Anne Frank plays with Sanne Ledermann and Eva Goldberg

Otto Frank rents a room in Amsterdam

Anne and Margot Frank in Aachen | Monheimsallee 42-44

Frank family in Frankfurt am Main | Ganghoferstraße 24

Familie Frank in Frankfurt am Main | Dantestraße 4

Frank family in Frankfurt am Main | Marbachweg 307

1933 Emigration

Otto goes to the Netherlands

Merwedeplein

Friends

1933 Emigration to the Netherlands

Anne Frank at the Joods Lyceum

Anne Frank and Jacqueline van Maarsen classmates at the Jewish Lyceum

1940 Germany occupies the Netherlands

'Jewish laws'

Anne Frank separated from Moortje

Frank family in hiding

Anne Frank is presented with a diary for her 13th birthday

Van Pels family goes into hiding in the Secret Annex

Anne Frank rewrites her diary

Anne Frank continues to write in notebooks

Break-in at Otto Frank's business premises

Burglary at the Elhoek frim

Allied bombs fall around he Fokker factories

Wine stock stolen from Hotel Schiller

An American bomber crashes in the Spaarndammer neighborhood

An airplane crashes behind the Carlton Hotel

Miep takes Moffie to the vet

A fierce air battle

1942 Going into hiding

The Secret Annex

Arrival and registration of the people in hiding at Westerbork

The arrest of the people in hiding

Deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau

The people in hiding are interrogated by the Sicherheitsdienst

Selections upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Anne en Margot in the scabies barrack

Death of Anne and Margot Frank

Imprisoned in Detention Centre I (Weteringschans)

Arrival at Bergen-Belsen

Anne Frank in Auschwitz-Birkenau

Selection for Bergen-Belsen

Anne Frank in Westerbork

Work 'on the batteries'

Deportation to Westerbork

In the Westerbork prison barracks

Ruth Wiener sees Anne and Margot in Bergen-Belsen

Hanneli Goslar and Anne Frank in Bergen-Belsen

Meeting Margot Rosenthal in Bergen-Belsen

The discovery of the diary

Jan Gies witnessed the arrest

1944 Discovered and arrested

Deported

Het Achterhuis is published

Publication of 'The Diary of a Young Girl' in the United States

World premiere of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' on Broadway

Dutch premiere of the play 'The Diary of Anne Frank'

World premiere of the film 'The Diary of Anne Frank'

Dutch premiere of the film 'The Diary Anne Frank'

1947 Anne’s diary is published

International fame

Anne Frank

Anne Frank op het Joods Lyceum, Amsterdam, 1941-1942