Anne Frank: How did Anne Frank die & when?

Anne and Margot Frank both died in 1945. Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen camp in 1945. She was 15 years old.

Anne Frank: Who betrayed the Frank Family?

In the late 1940 Otto Frank's warehouse man Willem Van Maaren was under the investigations. Due to the lack of evidence the process was stopped, but opened again in the 1960s. No evidence was found. In the 1980s a new name came up: Lena Van Bladeren, who worked in the office as a cleaning woman. Carol Ann Lee has claimed that Otto Frank's business friend, Tonny Ahlers, who helped him to continued his spice trade from the hiding place, betrayed the family. Tonny Ahlers was a member of the Nazi party.

However, all three persons were cleared of any suspicons because lack of hard evidence. While offically cleared, Ahlers, the most nortorious of the lot was also thought to be the most likely, it was documented that Ahlers's brother and son, Cas and Anton, admitted to hearing Ahlers's confession to the repugnant deed.The betrayal of Anne Frank and her family will never truely be completely uncovered, it will remained one of the sad mysteries of the second World War.

Anne Frank: When & How long where they in hiding?

July 13, 1942,The van Pels, another Jewish family originally from Germany, join the Franks in hiding.



On May, 10, 1940, the German military invaded Holland, violating its neutrality, and bombed Rotterdam, killing civilians and leveling buildings. The Dutch forces surrendered on May 15, under threat of further bombings. Queen Wilhelmina and other government officials went into exile in England. Anne Frank and her family, like other Jewish refugees, found themselves once again under Nazi oppression.



In 1942, mass round-ups (razzias) of Jews and deportations to work, transit and concentration camps were to become routine throughout the Netherlands. The Franks began to prepare to go into hiding -- parents Otto and Edith wanted to try to keep the family together.



By June 5, 1942, there was a total ban on Jews traveling without first gaining permission. On July 5, 1942, Anne's sister Margot was among those who received the first call-up notices sent out for "labor service in Germany." The very next day, first Margot and then the other family members moved into their hiding place -- an annex of rooms behind Otto Frank's office at 263 Prisengracht in Amsterdam.

Anne Frank: Her Family

The Frank's family business included banking, management of the springs at Bad Soden and the manufacture of cough drops. Anne's mother, the former Edith Hollander, was the daughter of a manufacturer. She had married Otto Frank in 1925. Their first daughter, Margot Betti, born in 1926, was followed by Anneliese Marie, called Anne, in 1929. . Otto Frank had earlier toyed with the idea of emigrating, and in 1933 the family fled from Frankfurt to the Netherlands, where Otto Frank continued his career as a businessman. In 1938 Anne Frank's two uncles escaped to the United States. After the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands anti-Jewish decrees followed in rapid succession. Anne's sister received a notice to report to the Nazis. The family went hiding with four other friends in a sealed-off office flat in Amsterdam.
The marriage of Otto Frank and Edith Holländer on May 12, 1925.Edith Holländer was born on January 16, 1900 in the German city of Aachen, just across the border from the Netherlands. Edith's maiden name refers to the Netherlands. Edith's ancestors lived in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 18th century. They emigrated to Germany around 1800. Edith's parents were Abraham Holländer and Rosa Stern. Her two brothers Julius and Walter are six and three when Edith is born, and sister Betti is two years old. Edith remains the youngest child. Edith's father Abraham came from a family of nine children and has a successful trading company. In and around Aachen and its surroundings the name Holländer is a household word when it comes to trade in machines, metal and rags.

Otto Heinrich Frank was born May 12, 1889. Born into a banking family in Frankfurt am Main, Frank served in the Imperial German Army on the Western Front during World War I, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1915.

Margot Betti Frank was born on February 16, 1926 in Frankfurt-am-Main. She was name after her maternal aunt Bettina Hollander. She attended the Ludwig-Richer School in Frankfurt-am-Main until the election of Adolf Hitler on January 30th, 1933 to the postition of Chancellor in Germany. Margot was enrolled in an elementary school on Amsterdam's Jekerstraat, close to their new address in Amsterdam South, and achieved excellent academic results until an anti-Jewish law imposed a year after the 1940 German invasion of The Netherlands demanded her removal to a Jewish lyceum. There she displayed the studiousness and intelligence which had made her noteworthy at her previous schools, and was remembered by former pupils as virtuous, reserved, and deeply religious.

Anne Frank: Who is Anne Frank?

Annelies Marie Frank also known as Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany on June 12, 1929, and lived through the time that Hitler was ruling Germany. Anne is the second child. She is the best known victim of the Jewish genocide known as the Holocaust.

She was in the Netherlands at the time she celebrated her 13th birthday. On that day she received the best present anyone could give her...a diary. Instead of writing "Dear Diary", like anyone else would, she named her diary. She wrote to Kitty...as she called her diary.