Discovery and arrest 1944

Anne is arrested along with all the others. In the Auschwitz concentration camp, Anne ends up in the same barracks as her mother and sister. Later, Anne and Margot are taken to Bergen-Belsen. Anne dies there in March 1945, at the age of 15.

Vrouwenbarak Auschwitz

Betrayed!

On 4 August 1944, everyone in the Secret Annex is arrested. Someone has betrayed them. They are deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then on to Auschwitz. Otto Frank is the only person from the Secret Annex to survive the camps. The others all die. Hermann van Pels is murdered in the gas chambers, and Auguste is thrown in front of a train during a transport. The others die of disease and exhaustion. The identity of their betrayer has never been established.

The day of the arrest On 4 August 1944, everyone’s fears are realised

On a warm August day in 1944, the thing everyone has been afraid of for so long finally happens: they’re discovered and arrested.

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Anne writes:

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Betrayed!

“If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed. Perhaps that's the quickest way to die. I feel terrible.”

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Otto's surroundings

Edith Frank

Edith has trouble settling down in the Netherlands.

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Margot Frank

Otto and Edith’s daughter, Anne’s sister Margot is a quiet, serious girl who enjoys studying.

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