Historical Figure
Margot Frank
1926–1945
Older sister of Anne Frank and Holocaust victim (1926–1945)
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Biography
Margot Betti Frank 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. According to the diary of her younger sister, Anne, Margot kept a diary of her own, but no trace of it has ever been found. She died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from a typhus outbreak.
Timeline
The story of Margot Frank, told in moments.
Receives a call-up notice from the SS, ordering her to report for deportation to a labor camp. She's 16. The family goes into hiding the next day. The annex above Otto Frank's office building. Eight people in a few rooms for two years.
The annex is raided. Someone has betrayed them. All eight occupants are arrested and sent to Westerbork transit camp, then to Auschwitz. Margot and Anne are later transferred to Bergen-Belsen.
Dies of typhus at Bergen-Belsen, days before her sister Anne. She was 18. The camp is liberated by the British on April 15. Her father Otto is the only one of the eight to survive. Anne's diary makes the family famous. Margot's diary, if she kept one, was never found.
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