The Fate of the People in Hiding

Typhus

In the winter of 1944-1945, the situation at Bergen-Belsen deteriorates. There is little or no food and the sanitary conditions are dreadful. Many of the prisoners become ill. Margot and Anne Frank come down with typhus. They both die just a few weeks before the camp is liberated. Janny Brilleslijper witnesses their deaths: “First Margot had fallen out of bed onto the stone floor. She couldn’t get up anymore. Anne died a day later.”