Anne and Margot Frank were spared immediate death in theAuschwitzgas chambers and instead were sent to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in northern Germany. In February 1945, the Frank sisters died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen; their bodies were thrown into a mass grave. Several weeks later,...
But by March 1945, Anne Frank had finally lost that unsullied hope that would someday inspire millions. Her mother had remained in Auschwitz, where she died of starvation. Just weeks earlier, her sister Margot died of dysentery in front of Anne’s eyes. Unaware that her father was still ...
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On August 4, 1944, Anne Frank, her family, and four other Jews were discovered after two years of hiding. They were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to concentration camps, where Anne and her sister, Margot, were separated from their parents. After the war, Otto Frank, the family's lon...