The deaths of Anne and Margot

The day after his return, Otto went back to Prinsengracht 263. His notebook does not mention whether he looked around the emptied-out Secret Annex. In his diary, he noted on 12 June: ‘Anne’. She would have turned 16 that day. Over one month later, Otto met with Lien Brilleslijper. She told him about Anne and Margot’s deaths in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. It was a pitch-black day for Otto.