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Margot Betti Frank (16 February 1926 – c. February or March 1945) [1] was the elder daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank and the elder sister of Anne Frank. Margot's deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding.
After spending time in both Westerbork and Auschwitz, Anne and her elder sister Margot were eventually transported to Bergen-Belsen, which was swept by a massive typhus epidemic that began in the camp in January 1945. The two sisters died, evidently a few days apart, sometime in February 1945. [1]
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk] ⓘ, Dutch: [ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk] ⓘ; 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) [1] was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
Frank and her sister Margot died just weeks before the concentration camp was liberated. Konig now travels to schools to tell her story. She feels she has an obligation to spread Frank's message.
[8] [7] In March 1945, Anne and Margot died within a few days of each other. Janny and Lientje buried them in the mass graves at the camp. After the war, Brandes-Brilleslijper was reunited with her husband and children. Through the Red Cross, she contacted Otto Frank and informed him about the deaths of his daughters, Anne and Margot. [9]
A fictionalized account of Pick-Goslar's life and close friendship with Anne Frank, titled My Best Friend Anne Frank, was released in 2022. [9] In 2023, Pick-Goslar’s long-awaited memoir My Friend Anne Frank: the Inspiring True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds (with Dina Kraft) was published by Little Brown.
Then, in the fall of 1944, Anne and her sister Margot were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. It was there that the two sisters caught typhus and died in early 1945.
Sanne was admitted to the Jeker school, [1] where her sister Barbara and Margot Frank [2] were also admitted. Later in 1940, Eva Schloss, the eventual stepsister of Anne Frank, also attended class with Sanne. [3] In 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, and Sanne had to move to a Jewish school. Hanneli Goslar and Anne moved to a different ...