Jack & Ina's Timeline
| 1940 | ||
| May 10 | Germans invade and conquer Holland. | |
| 1941 | ||
| Feb 22 | Deportations of Jews to concentration camps begin in Holland. | |
| April | All Dutch Jews must wear the yellow star. | |
| June 11 | Ina's brother Benno arrested, dies later in Concentration Camp Mauthausen. | |
| Sept | Young Jews are excluded from Dutch schools and colleges. | |
| 1942 | ||
| June | Ina's boyfriend Rudi deported, dies shortly after in Auschwitz, a death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. | |
| July 6 | Anne Frank and family move into their hiding place | |
| July 14 | Jack picked up in a raid but is released 2 days later | |
| 1943 | ||
| June 6 | Jack and Ina meet for the first time in Amsterdam | |
| July | Jack and Manja deported to Westerbork, the Dutch transit camp | |
| July 21 | Jack's parents are deported to an unknown destination | |
| July 23 | Jack's parents die in Sobibor | |
| Sept 30 | Ina deported to Westerbork | |
| 1944 | ||
| Feb 8 | Manja's mother is deported, dies shortly after in Auschwitz | |
| Feb 15 | Jack is deported to Bergen Belsen | |
| May 19 | Ina deported to Bergen Belsen | |
| June 6 | D-Day. The Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied western Europe begins in Normandy | |
| June 29 | Jack's sister Liesje leaves for Palestine | |
| Aug 4 | Anne Frank and family are taken to Westerbork | |
| Sept 3-6 | Anne Frank and family are deported to Auschwitz. | |
| Oct 28 | Anne Frank is taken from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen. | |
| 1945 | ||
| Jan | The Russian Allies liberate Auschwitz and free the remaining prisoners | |
| Mar | Anne Frank dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen. | |
| Apr 7 | Ina is put on a train heading west away from B.B. | |
| Apr 9 | Jack is put on a train heading east away from B.B. | |
| Apr 13 | Ina is liberated by the American Army | |
| Apr 23 | Jack is liberated by the Russian Army | |
| Apr 25 | Jack is hit by spotted typhus, 2 days in comea, but survives | |
| Apr 25 | Jack's sister Juul dies in Trobits after the liberation | |
| Apr 30 | Hitler commits suicide. | |
| May 7 | Germany surrenders unconditionally. The war ends | |
| June 21 | Jack's sister Betty finds Jack in a hospital in Holland | |
| June 23 | Jack and Ina reunite | |
| Aug | Jack divorces Manja | |
| Oct | Jack and Ina get engaged | |
| 1946 | ||
| Jan 29 | Jack and Ina marry | |
| Nov 8 | Jack and Ina's first Son Fred is born | |
| 1949 | ||
| Mar 4 | Jack and Ina's second Son Tony is born | |
| 1951 | ||
| Jan 13 | Jack and Ina move to the USA | |
| 1955 | ||
| Nov 17 | Jack and Ina's first daughter Margrit is born | |
| 1992 | ||
| Dec 31 | Knighthood for Jack | |
| 2000 | ||
| Dec | Book "Steal a pencil for me" published in USA | |
| 2003 | ||
| Mar 23 | Honor Doctorate Hofstra University | |
| 2006 | ||
| Jan 29 | 60th anniversary of their wedding | |
| Today | ||
| Jack is involved with the Anne Frank Center as USA Director, President, Chairman and now Chairman-Emeritus for the last twenty years. | ||
