After Anne Frank was captured, she was deported through several Nazi camps, separated from her father, and ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945, shortly before the war ended.

Arrest and first deportation

  • On 4 August 1944, German police raided the Secret Annex in Amsterdam after a tip-off and arrested Anne, her family, and the others in hiding.
  • They were first taken to a local detention center and then sent to Westerbork, a transit camp in the Netherlands used to process Jews for deportation to camps further east.

From Westerbork to Auschwitz

  • On 3 September 1944, Anne and the others were put on the last major transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a journey of about three days in overcrowded cattle cars.
  • At Auschwitz, Anne, her sister Margot, and their mother Edith were classified for forced labor rather than immediate murder, while conditions of starvation, overcrowding, and abuse were constant.

Separation of the family

  • In Auschwitz, Otto Frank was separated from his wife and daughters and placed in the men’s section; he was the only member of the immediate family to survive the Holocaust.
  • As the front lines moved closer in late 1944, the SS began evacuating prisoners from Auschwitz, which set the stage for Anne’s transfer further into Germany.

Transfer to Bergen-Belsen

  • In October–November 1944, Anne and Margot were transported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany, while their mother Edith remained behind and later died in Auschwitz.
  • Bergen-Belsen was not a gas-camp, but it was catastrophically overcrowded, with extreme hunger, filth, and rampant disease, especially typhus.

Illness and death

  • Survivors later recalled Anne as emaciated, exhausted, and tormented by lice and fever, at one point discarding her infested clothes and wrapping herself only in a blanket in the freezing cold.
  • Both Anne and Margot contracted typhus amid the camp’s epidemic and died within days of each other in February or March 1945, just weeks before British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen in April.

Aftermath and legacy

  • Otto Frank learned only after the war that his wife and daughters had died; he returned to Amsterdam and received Anne’s preserved diary from helpers who had saved her papers from the Annex.
  • He arranged for the diary’s publication, and The Diary of Anne Frank went on to become one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust, turning Anne into a lasting symbol of a murdered Jewish childhood.

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