Anne Frank & Nelson Mandela

Did Anne Frank and Nelson Mandela live at the same time?

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

Anne Frank · Nelson Mandela · Born in 1929 · Born in 1918

Anne Frank

Activism & Social Change

Diary of a Young Girl, Holocaust victim

Nelson Mandela

Politics & Leadership

Anti-apartheid hero, South African President

19182013

Anne Frank

Nelson Mandela

Anne Frank

Activism & Social Change

Born in Maingau Clinic of the Red Cross

Died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Nelson Mandela

Politics & Leadership

Born in Mvezo

Died in Houghton Estate

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
Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
Nelson Mandela (Q8023) — Wikidata