Anne Frank & Mahatma Gandhi

Did Anne Frank and Mahatma Gandhi live at the same time?

Yes. Anne Frank and Mahatma Gandhi lived at the same time for 16 years, from 1929 to 1945.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Anne Frank · Mahatma Gandhi · Born in 1929 · Born in 1869

Anne Frank

Activism & Social Change

Diary of a Young Girl, Holocaust victim

Mahatma Gandhi

Politics & Leadership

Nonviolent independence leader of India

18691948

Anne Frank

Mahatma Gandhi

Anne Frank

Activism & Social Change

Born in Maingau Clinic of the Red Cross

Died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Mahatma Gandhi

Politics & Leadership

Born in Porbandar

Died in Gandhi Smriti

World Events During Their Overlap

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends

1945 United Nations founded

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Sources

Anne Frank — Wikipedia
Anne Frank (Q4583) — Wikidata
Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
Mahatma Gandhi (Q1001) — Wikidata