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Anne Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February or March 1945. The specific cause is unknown; however, there is evidence to suggest that she died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the camp, killing 17,000 prisoners. [99] Gena Turgel, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen, knew Anne at the camp.
Pictures of mass graves including people who died from typhus can be seen in footage shot at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. [49] Among thousands of prisoners in concentration camps such as Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen who died of typhus [49] were Anne Frank, age 15, and her sister Margot, age 19, in the latter camp.
The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne's diaries were retrieved by Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Miep gave them to Anne's father, Otto Frank, the family's only survivor, just after the Second World War was over.
Before she died of typhus at 15 inside the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank lived just over two years inside a secret 45-square meter (484-square foot) annex atop an Amsterdam ...
Anne and Margot Frank, who both died of typhus there in February or March 1945, shortly before the camp was liberated on April 15, 1945. [61] Marianne Franken – a Dutch painter; Hanneli Goslar (survived) – a friend of Anne Frank, spoke about memories of Frank after surviving Bergen-Belsen.
Hélène Berr (27 March 1921 – 10 April 1945) was a French Jewish woman, who documented her life in a diary during the time of Nazi occupation of France. In France she is considered to be a "French Anne Frank". [1]
71 years ago today, Anne Frank was captured by the Nazi Gestapo in Amsterdam. The Frank family escaped from Germany in 1942, out of fear of being sent to a Nazi concentration camp. With the help ...
Typhus epidemics killed inmates in the Nazi concentration camps and death camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Theresienstadt, and Bergen-Belsen. [14] Footage shot at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shows the mass graves for typhus victims. [14] Anne Frank, at age 15, and her sister Margot