Anne Frank

Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote a diary while hiding with her family and friends in Amsterdam during the Nazi German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. Her diary gained international fame and became one of the world's most published books.

In April 2009 The Anne Frank Center USA announced plans to plant trees in ten U.S. cities as a symbol of "the growth of tolerance." AP: Anne Frank Saplings May be Planted in 10 US Cities (April 17, 2009)

The diary chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 until her capture on August 1, 1944. Her diary was discovered and published as The Diary of a Young Girl in 1947. Frank's diary has been adapted for both film and the stage.

The diary was meant to just be a place for Anne to vent while in hiding during the Nazi Holocaust, but has become a public document of some of World War II's most wrenching and significant events from a personal perspective.

After the Frank family's discovery, arrest and deportation, the family who was hiding them gathered her diary and other papers, planning to save them for Anne. When she died in a concentration camp, the papers were turned over to Anne's father, Otto Frank, who published them under the title The Diary of a Young Girl.

• In her diary, Anne Frank wrote about tracking the seasons by watching the growth of a horse chestnut tree while hiding from the Nazis. In 2009, the Anne Frank Center USA announced that they would like to plant 3-foot saplings would come from the ailing Amsterdam tree that Frank watched. The group plans to plant the saplings in ten U.S. cities potentially including at the Sept. 11 memorial, the White House and at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.AP: Anne Frank Saplings May be Planted in 10 US Cities (April 17, 2009)

• June 12, 1929: Born

• Mar 1933: Nazi party elected to power in Germany

• 1933: Frank family moves to Amsterdam

• June 12, 1942: Anne receives diary as a present from her father

• July 5, 1942: Margot Frank ordered to report to a work camp

• July 6, 1942: Frank family goes into hiding (Secret Annex)

• Aug. 4, 1944: Frank family arrested

• Aug. 7, 1944: Frank family transported to Westerbork

• Sept. 3, 1944: Anne sent to Auschwitz

• Oct. 28, 1944: Anne relocated to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

• March 1945: Anne dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen camp