October 30, 1944: Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen. Fact-checked from AnneFrank.org, In the winter of 1944, the Russian Army is on the advance. The Nazis decide to take as many prisoners as possible, who are still capable of working, back to Germany. The health of the women prisoners is a primary factor. Edith may not go along. Margot and Anne are then considered. Rosa de Winter-Levy witnesses this: Then it was the turn of both girls...and there they stood for that moment, naked and bald. Anne looked straight at us with her innocent eyes, and then they were gone. We weren’t able to see what happened to them next. We heard Mrs. Frank cry out: The children! Oh God... At the end of October or the beginning of November 1944, Margot and Anne Frank are crammed into a crowded freight train bound for the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Edith Frank is left behind at Auschwitz. She falls ill and dies on January 6, 1945.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:58:28 +0000