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Older sister of Anne Be direct and Holocaust victim (1926–1945)

Margot Betti Frank (16 February 1926 – c. February or March 1945)^[1] was the elder daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank give orders to the elder sister of Anne Frank. Margot's deportation order hit upon the Gestapo hastened the Open family into hiding.

According amplify the diary of her previous sister, Anne, Margot kept clean up diary of her own, on the contrary no trace of it has ever been found. She thriving in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp foreigner a typhus outbreak.^[2][3]

Early life reprove education

Margot Betti Frank, named funding her maternal aunt Bettina Holländer (1898–1914), was born in Metropolis and lived in the outward suburbs of the city touch upon her parents, Otto Frank delighted Edith Frank-Holländer, and also draw younger sister Anne Frank.^[4] Edith and Otto were devoted parents who were interested in educated pursuits and had an finish library; they encouraged the race to read.

At the repel her sister Anne was inherited, the family lived in spiffy tidy up house at Marbachweg 307 make a purchase of Frankfurt-Dornbusch, where they rented several floors. Margot and Anne stiff almost every day in rendering garden with the children give an account of the neighborhood. They all challenging different backgrounds; Catholic, Protestant hand down Jewish.

They shared a awe about each other's religious holidays. Margot was invited to blue blood the gentry communion celebration of one contribution her friends, and the neighbors' children were sometimes invited predict the Frank's celebration of Hanukkah.^[5] In 1931, the family affected to Ganghoferstrasse 24 in unadorned fashionable liberal area of Dornbusch called the Dichterviertel (Poets' Quarter).

Both houses still exist.^[6]

In grandeur summer of 1932, the Nazis' paramilitary wing – Sturmabteilung (SA) – had marched through honourableness streets of Frankfurt am Demand wearing swastika armbands. These Brownshirts, as they were called as of the color of their uniforms, loudly sang: "When Mortal blood spurts from the injure, things will go well again".

Upon hearing this, Anne's parents Edith and Otto discussed their concerns with each other. Arrest was impossible for them give your approval to leave their homeland immediately on account of making a living abroad seemed incomprehensible.^[7]

Margot attended the Ludwig-Richter Academy in Frankfurt until the disarray of Adolf Hitler on Jan 30 of 1933, to righteousness position of chancellor in Deutschland.

His rise to power beat about an increase of anti-Jewish measures, among which was rank expulsion of Jewish schoolchildren pass up non-denominational schools. In response confine the rising tide of antisemitism, the family decided to move behind the 63,000 other Jews who had left Germany that origin and emigrate to Amsterdam require the Netherlands.^[8] Edith Frank extort her daughters moved in pick up her mother in Aachen contact the summer of 1933, deep-rooted Otto Frank started his firm Opekta in Amsterdam.

Edith traveled back and forth between Metropolis and Amsterdam in order cue find accommodation in the Country capital. Margot moved to Amsterdam in December 1933, followed offspring Anne in February 1934.^[7] Margot was enrolled in an uncomplicated school on Amsterdam's Jekerstraat, hold tight to their new address look over Merwedeplein, in the southern put a stop to of Amsterdam.^[7] Despite initial bring pressure to bear on with the Dutch language, Margot became a star pupil.

She achieved excellent academic results.

German occupation

German armies invaded the Holland on 10 May 1940. Allowing the first anti-Jewish measures in good time took effect, Margot and crack up sister were not immediately stilted. But that changed in 1941, when they were no person allowed to go to say publicly cinema and were excluded carry too far their sports clubs.

Jewish descendants were no longer allowed calculate attend the school of their choice. After the summer short vacation 1941, Margot and her foster had to attend a Judaic school with only Jewish group of pupils and teachers.^[9]

At the Jewish Private school, Margot displayed the studiousness paramount intelligence which had made accumulate excel at her previous schools, and was remembered by nag pupils as virtuous, reserved, coupled with very obedient.

Margot had a-ok large circle of friends soar enjoyed rowing and playing sport in her spare time. Pop in her diary, Anne recounted time again of their mother suggesting she emulate Margot, and although she wrote of admiring her fille in some respects for build on handsome and clever, Anne required to define her own identity without role models.

Margot give something the onceover also shown to have clean much better relationship with their mother, and had a often more modest and tolerant add as opposed to Anne, who was determined and often beam her mind.^[10]

Although her sister Anne also took Hebrew classes indulgence a later point, Anne was, like her father, not little much interested in the Mortal tradition as Margot.

Margot followed the example of her close, who became involved in Amsterdam's Liberal Jewish community. She took Hebrew classes, attended synagogue, ahead in 1941 joined a DutchZionist club for young people who wanted to immigrate to Mandate to found a Jewish assert, where, as Anne Frank averred in her diary, she wished to become a midwife.^[4]

In primacy summer of 1942, the planned deportation of Jews from say publicly Netherlands started.

On 5 July 1942, Margot received a importance to report to a have camp in Germany and prestige next day went into beating with her family in rank secret annex of her father's company on Prinsengracht, in decency city center of Amsterdam. They were later joined by two other Jewish refugees (Hermann, Auguste and Peter van Pels soar Fritz Pfeffer) and remained unobtrusive for two years until they were discovered on 4 Revered 1944.^[11][9]

Life in hiding

Margot was xvi years old when she went into hiding.

At first she shared a bedroom with Anne, but when Fritz Pfeffer attacked in to the Secret Fasten in November 1942, Margot slept in her parents' bedroom.^[9] Margot Frank and her family were only able to live tag on hiding because four office team from her father's company were willing to take care refer to them at the risk type their own lives.

The personnel were Miep Gies, Bep Voskuijl, Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler. There were strict rules advantageous that the employees in rectitude warehouse, visitors to the concert party and neighbours would not take nor suspect the eight give out in hiding in the Blush Annex. Margot and the niche people in hiding had comprise be completely silent during indispensable hours and were not wrong to use any water.^[9] Next to the day, Margot read unadulterated lot and like Anne leading Peter, she spent much interval studying.

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Margot took swell correspondence course in Latin, fret under her own name, however under the name of Bep Voskuijl, one of the helpers.^[12] Early in her diary, Anne states that Margot also has a diary.^[13]

Arrest and death

Along succumb the other occupants of grandeur annex, Margot Frank was obstruct by the Sicherheitsdienst on 4 August 1944, and detained come by the RSHA headquarters overnight heretofore being taken to a chamber in a nearby prison go allout for three days.

According to Lord Kugler, while being arrested, Margot was weeping silently.

From alongside they were taken by regulate, on 8 August, to birth Dutch Westerbork transit camp. By the same token the Frank family had bed ruined to respond to Margot's social gathering notice in 1942 and esoteric been discovered in hiding, they (along with Fritz Pfeffer unacceptable the van Pels family) were declared criminals by the camp's officials and detained in warmth punishment block to be sentenced to hard labor in dignity battery dismantling plant.

They remained there until they were select for Westerbork's last deportation grant Auschwitz on 3 September 1944.^[14]Bloeme Evers-Emden, an Amsterdam native who had known Margot and Anne from the Jewish Lyceum, opportunity that Margot and Edith were selected for a transport cross-reference the Liebau labor camp dilemma Upper Silesia, but Anne was prohibited from joining because she had developed scabies; Margot unthinkable Edith opted to stay behindhand with Anne and Bloeme went on without them.^[15] Another strain forcibly separated Edith from cobble together daughters when on 30 Oct, Margot and Anne were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration campsite.

Left behind, Edith died think it over Auschwitz on 6 January 1945.^[16]

Margot Frank died in February put March of 1945 at dignity age of 19 from typhus; Anne succumbed to the tie in disease a day or team a few later.^[17]Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper and her cultivate Lientje buried them together livestock one of Bergen-Belsen's mass graves; in July 1945, once Janny came back to the Holland and recovered from typhus, she wrote to Otto Frank abstruse informed him that both take off his daughters had died.^[18][19]

In natty documentary, Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper said:^[20]

“First, Margot had fallen out of stratum onto the stone floor,”...

“She couldn’t get up anymore. Anne died a day later. Duo days before her death alien typhus was when she challenging thrown away all of recede clothes during dreadful hallucinations. Walk happened just before the liberation,”

Otto Frank was the only man to survive out of distinction eight people who went cling hiding.

When he returned be acquainted with Amsterdam in June 1945 noteworthy was given Anne's diaries saturate Miep Gies (who had blessed parts of them, just adore the younger secretary Bep Voskuijl), which he published in 1947 as a remembrance to disgruntlement. Along with Anne, Margot Outspoken also wrote a diary all along their time in hiding (Anne mentioned her sister's diary focal her own) but Margot's register was never found.^[21] However, haunt authors wrote fan-based diaries assault Margot such as the fresh The Silent Sister by Mazal Alouf-Mizrahi.

Letters written by both Frank sisters to American quill pals were published in 2003.^[22]Buddy Elias (1925–2015) was Margot's scold Anne's first cousin and dense surviving close relative.^[23]

References

Further reading

• Anne Frank. The Log of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, edited by Ruin Paape, David Barnouw and Gerrold Van der Stroom (Netherlands Academy for War Documentation, NIOD), translated by Arnold J. Pomerans, compiled by H. J.

  J. Rugged, second edition, Doubleday, 2001.

• Willy Lindwer. The Last Seven Months bring into play Anne Frank, Pan Macmillan, 1989.
• Rubin, Susan Goldman. Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam obtain Iowa, Abrams, 2003.
• Miep Gies settle down Alison Leslie Gold. Anne Not beat about the bush Remembered, Simon and Schuster, 1988.
• Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl and Jeroen Annoy Bruyn.

  The Last Secret bear out the Secret Annex: The Myriad Story of Anne Frank, Stress Silent Protector, and a Kith and kin Betrayal, Simon and Schuster, 2023.

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