Biographies

Margot Frank

About Margot

Margot was born on 16 February 1926 in Frankfurt, Germany - the first child of Edith and Otto.

Before the Secret Annex

The Frank family moved to Holland in 1933 and Margot attended school in Amsterdam. Her school friend Jetteke Frijda remembers Margot as a modest and kind girl, who didn't talk about herself or her life in Germany much.

On 5 July 1942, Margot received call-up papers for a labour camp in Germany. The next day, her parents took the family into hiding in to the Secret Annex above Otto's office which they had prepared.

During the Secret Annex

Margot remained very quiet and withdrawn in the annex, she spent a great deal of time on her studies, in the hope that when she returned to school she wouldn't be behind.

After the Secret Annex

When the annex was discovered and the family were arrested on 4 August 1944, Margot was sent with the others to Westerbork transit camp and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

She survived the initial selection for the gas chamber, but the following month, Margot and Anne were transferred to Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Margot died of typhus in the camp in March 1945, just a few weeks before it was liberated by Allied troops.