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Margot Betti Frank (16 February 1926 – c. February or March 1945) [1] was the elder daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank and the elder sister of Anne Frank. Margot's deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding.
Margot Frank was the older sister of Anne Frank and a brilliant student who dreamed of becoming a maternity nurse in Palestine. She was arrested with her family and died in Auschwitz in 1945.
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Margot Frank was born on February 16, 1926, in Frankfurt, Germany, the first child of Otto and Edith Frank. The Anne Frank Housenotes that Margot was described as “neat and careful” from a young age, and that her first school report lauded her as “very diligent!” In 1929, Margot’s younger sister Anne Frankwas born. The girls were different. In late...
The Nazi invasion changed everything for the Frank family. Life for Dutch Jews became restricted under Nazi rule, and Anne and Margot had to attend a Jewish-only school. Then, on July 5, 1942, Margot received a summons for “labour duty in Germany.” Her family decided to go into hiding instead. They moved into a secret annex behind Otto’s office at ...
The Frank family was first sent to Camp Westerbork, and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Otto was separated from Edith, Margot, and Anne. Then, in November, Margot and Anne were separated from their mother and sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration campin northern Germany. Life in the camp was a “hell where people were not exterminated immediately, b...
At the end of the war, Otto Frank returned to the Netherlands. He was the only member of the Frank family to survive. Soon afterward, he got in contact with his former secretary, Miep Gies, who had helped hide the family during the war. She had saved Anne’s diary from the annex after the Franks were deported, intending to one day give it back to he...
Margot Frank was Anne Frank's older sister who also kept a diary during their hiding and imprisonment in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Learn about her life, personality, and fate in this article that explores her story and legacy.
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Margot Frank was the sister of Anne Frank and a victim of the Holocaust. Learn about her life, education, deportation and death from the Anne Frank House knowledge base.
Margot Frank was born in 1926 in Germany and moved to the Netherlands with her family to escape the Nazis. She died in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen camp, along with her sister Anne, who kept a famous diary.
Anne and Margot Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from typhus, presumably in February 1945. The exact date of death is not known, but based on witness statements, documents and disease progression, it is likely that they died in late January or early February 1945.
Anne’s sister Margot was three years her senior. Unemployment was high and poverty was severe in Germany, and it was the period in which Adolf Hitler and his party were gaining more and more supporters.
