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The Fate of the Frank Family: How and When Did Anne Frank Die? Anne Frank died in February or March 1945, shortly before British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945. Anne Frank died at the age of 15. Margot Frank died at the age of 19, also in February or March 1945. Both Margot and Anne died of typhus.
May 6, 2024 · Anne Frank (born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died February/March 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover) was a Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature. Early in the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, Anne’s father ...
- Michael Berenbaum
Apr 28, 2024 · After being starved, abused, and exposed to lice, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank met a horrific death at the hands of the Nazis. In February or March 1945, a German-born Jewish girl named Anne Frank died inside the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The 15-year-old, who likely succumbed to typhus, was one of about 50,000 Holocaust ...
- Kaleena Fraga
May 10, 2024 · How Did Anne Frank Die? Anne was just 15 years old when she died, one of more than 1 million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust. Her cause of death was typhus; both Anne and her sister ...
In October 1944, Anne and Margot were sent to Bergen-Belsen where both died of typhus in March 1945, only weeks before the camp’s liberation. Otto Frank was the only member of the family to survive the Holocaust. After the war, Miep Gies, one of the Dutch Christians who had helped hide the Franks, gave Otto Anne’s diaries which she had kept.
The word ‘holocaust’ comes from ancient Greek and means ‘burnt offering’. Even before the Second World War, the word was sometimes used to describe the death of a large group of people, but since 1945, it has become almost synonymous with the murder of the European Jews during the Second World War. That's why we use the term 'the ...
Apr 14, 2020 · A site of unimaginable horror, some 52,000 prisoners from across Europe died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust, including the famous diarist Anne Frank. A further 14,000 inmates, sick or injured, died after the camp was liberated in 1945. Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the camp’s liberation by British troops, historian Jens-Christian Wagner reveals ...
