On 3 September 1944, Anne Frank and her family were transported from the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland along with 1,011 other Jews.
They ended up in Westerbork transit camp after their Secret Annex in Anne Frank’s House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam was raided and everyone hiding in it was captured on 4 August 1944. Anne Frank’s parents, Otto and Edith, her sister Margot as well as Hermann and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter and family friend Fritz Pfeffer were all in hiding.
During the journey to Auschwitz, men and women were separated. Anne Frank and her boyfriend Peter van Pels saw each other for the last time. It was also the last time that Otto Frank saw his wife and daughters.
Edith, Margot, Anne, and Auguste remained at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and ended up in a barracks for forced labourers. Otto, Hermann, Peter and Fritz were ordered to walk to camp Auschwitz I which was three kilometres away. They were forced to do heavy labour.
Anne and her sister are thought to have died from typhus in February 1945, just months before the camp was liberated by the Red Cross.
Anne Frank’s life is now encapsulated in The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Tickets can be purchased online for the museum which is open daily.
Have you been to the Anne Frank House? Have you read her diary? Or have you read any other good literature from the Holocaust? Let us know in the comments!
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I read Anne´s diary,and a lot of books about the Holocaust,a lot,I don´t remember the titles of all of the books I read.They were so much.
Just a note,israeli jews should be worried about Palestina in order not to do to palestinians the same that the nazis and Hitler did to them not long ago.Sure that are survivals of the holocaust nowadays ,even if they are very old now.
What a sickening post.
Israelis are trying to protect themselves against wonton gruesome violence. To compare the holocaust to Jewish self defense is revolting. May I suggest that you find yourself a book or a newspaper that wasn’t written by Goebbels?
Fingers crossed that you’re not raising human children.
Israel does not treat Palestinians like Germans treated them. There are no concentration camps, gas chambers, or hanging gallows to murder Palestinians. Comparing Israel to Germany is ignorant and insulting.
There was no Poland during those years. Germany incorporated some of former Poland’s territory. Some of the rest was taken by Soviet Union. Finally there was a new entity created by Germans from the remainder.
“Night” by Eli Wiesel was a good read. It was part of my history curriculum in grade 12.
THE BRAVEST GIRL AND THE SADEST STORY OF HISTORY I HEARD OF AND FOR WHAT