What Will Happen to the Whole Family of Margot Doesn't Register for Work Camp

Older sis of Anne Frank (1926–1945)

Margot Frank
Margot's schoolhouse photograph from Dec 1941.
Born	Margot Betti Frank (1926-02-16)16 February 1926 Frankfurt, Germany
Died	c. February 1945 (aged 18–xix) Bergen-Belsen concentration military camp, Nazi Federal republic of germany
Crusade of death	Typhus
Nationality	German
Educational activity	Ludwig Richter Schule Lyceum voor Meisjes Jewish Lyceum Municipal Grammar School Municipal Lyceum
Known for	Older Sister of Anne Frank
Parent(s)	Otto Frank Edith Holländer
Relatives	Anne Frank (sister) Buddy Elias (cousin)

Margot Betti Frank (16 February 1926 – February or March 1945)^[1] was the elder daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank and the elder sis of Anne Frank. Margot's displacement order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding. According to the diary of her younger sister, Anne, Margot kept a diary of her ain, just no trace of Margot'southward diary has ever been establish. She died in Bergen-Belsen concentration army camp.^[two]

Jeker School in Amsterdam – The primary school of Margot Frank

Early life and pedagogy [edit]

Margot Betti Frank, named after her maternal aunt Bettina Holländer (1898–1914), was born in Frankfurt, Federal republic of germany, to Jewish parents, Otto and Edith, and lived in the outer suburbs of the city with her parents, Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Holländer, and also her younger sister Anne Frank, during the early years of her life.^[three] Edith and Otto were devoted parents, who were interested in scholarly pursuits and had an extensive library; both parents encouraged the children to read. At the time her sister Anne was born, the family lived in a business firm at Marbachweg 307 in Frankfurt-Dornbusch, where they rented 2 floors. Margot and Anne played virtually every day in the garden with the children in the neighborhood. They all had different backgrounds; Catholic, Protestant or Jewish. They shared a curiosity about each other's religious holidays. Margot was invited to the communion commemoration of i of her friends, and the neighbors' children were sometimes invited to the Frank'due south celebration of Hanukkah.^[4] In 1931 the family moved to Ganghoferstrasse 24 in a fashionable liberal area of Dornbusch called the Dichterviertel (Poets' Quarter). Both houses still exist.^[5]

In the summer of 1932, the Nazis' paramilitary fly – Sturmabteilung (SA) – marched through the streets of Frankfurt am Principal wearing swastika armbands. These Brownshirts, as they were called because of the colour of their uniforms, loudly sang: "When Jewish blood spurts from the knife, things will go well again". Upon hearing this, Anne'south parents Edith and Otto discussed their concerns with each other. It was impossible for them to leave their homeland immediately because making a living abroad was of course an issue.^[half-dozen]

Margot attended the Ludwig-Richter School in Frankfurt until the engagement of Adolf Hitler on 30 January 1933, to the position of chancellor in Federal republic of germany brought an increase of anti-Jewish measures, amidst which was the expulsion of Jewish schoolchildren from non-denominational schools. In response to the rising tide of Antisemitism, the family decided to follow the 63,000 other Jews who had left Germany that year and immigrate to Amsterdam in kingdom of the netherlands.^[vii] Edith Frank and her daughters moved in with her mother in Aachen in the summer of 1933, while Otto Frank started his company Opekta in Amsterdam. Edith travelled back and forth between Aachen and Amsterdam in order to find accommodation in the Dutch capital. Margot moved to Amsterdam in December 1933, followed by Anne in February 1934.^[6] Margot was enrolled in an simple school on Amsterdam's Jekerstraat, close to their new address on Merwedeplein, in the southern part of Amsterdam.^[6] Despite initial problems with the Dutch language, Margot went on to become a star pupil. She achieved excellent academic results.

High german occupation [edit]

Information technology was a shock when German language armies invaded kingdom of the netherlands on 10 May 1940. Although the first anti-Jewish measures soon took effect, Margot and her sister were non immediately affected. Just that changed in 1941, when they were no longer allowed to go to the cinema and were excluded from their sports clubs. One of the well-nigh drastic measures was that Margot and other Jewish children were no longer allowed to nourish the schoolhouse of their choice. Later on the summer of 1941, Margot and her sis had to attend a Jewish school with only Jewish students and teachers.^[8]

At the Jewish Lyceum Margot displayed the studiousness and intelligence which had made her noteworthy at her previous schools and was remembered by one-time pupils as virtuous, reserved, and very obedient. Margot had a large circle of friends and enjoyed rowing and playing tennis in her spare time. In her diary, Anne recounted instances of their mother suggesting she emulate Margot, and although she wrote of admiring her sister in some respects for being handsome and clever, Anne sought to define her own individuality without role models. Margot is likewise shown to have a much better human relationship with their mother, and had a much more modest and tolerant nature every bit opposed to Anne, who was adamant and often spoke her mind.^[9]

Although her sis Anne also took Hebrew classes at a later point, Anne was, like her father, not as much interested in the Jewish tradition every bit Margot. Margot followed the example of her female parent, who became involved in Amsterdam's Liberal Jewish customs. She took Hebrew classes, attended synagogue, and in 1941 joined a Dutch Zionist gild for immature people who wanted to immigrate to Palestine to found a Jewish state, where, as Anne Frank described in her diary, she wished to become a midwife.^[3]

In the summer of 1942 the systematic deportation of Jews from holland started. On 5 July 1942, Margot received a notice to report to a labor campsite in Deutschland and the side by side day went into hiding with her family in the hush-hush annex of her begetter's company on Prinsengracht, in the metropolis center of Amsterdam. They were afterward joined by four other Jewish refugees (Hermann, Auguste and Peter van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer) and remained subconscious for two years until they were discovered on 4 August 1944.^{[10] [eight]}

Life in hiding [edit]

Stolperstein for Margot Frank at the Pastorplatz in Aachen, Germany

Margot was sixteen years old when she went into hiding. At offset she shared a sleeping accommodation with Anne, only when Fritz Pfeffer moved in to the Hugger-mugger Annex in Nov 1942, Margot slept in her parents' chamber.^[8] Margot Frank and her family were only able to go into hiding because four office workers from her father's company were willing to have care of them at the take chances of their own lives. The helpers were Miep Gies, Bep Voskuijl, Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler. There were strict rules because the employees in the warehouse, visitors to the company and neighbours could non find the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Margot and the other people in hiding had to be completely silent during working hours and were non able to use any water.^[8] During the day Margot read a lot and like Anne and Peter, she spent a lot of time studying. Margot also took a correspondence form in Latin, not under her own name, but under the proper noun of Bep Voskuijl, one of the helpers.^[11]

Arrest and death [edit]

Forth with the other occupants of the hiding place, Margot Frank was arrested by the Gestapo on four August 1944, and detained in their headquarters overnight before beingness taken to a cell in a nearby prison for three days. From hither they were taken past train, on eight August, to the Dutch Westerbork concentration military camp. As the Frank family had failed to respond to Margot's call-up notice in 1942 and had been discovered in hiding, they (along with Fritz Pfeffer and the Van Pels family) were declared criminals by the camp's officials and detained in its punishment block to be sentenced to hard labor in the battery dismantling plant. They remained there until they were selected for Westerbork'southward last deportation to Auschwitz on iii September 1944.^[12] Bloeme Evers-Emden, an Amsterdam native who had known Margot and Anne from the Jewish Lyceum, recalled that Margot and Edith were selected for a transport to the Libeau labor camp in Upper Silesia, while Anne was prohibited from joining because she had developed scabies; Margot and Edith decided to stay with Anne, and Bloeme went on without them.^[thirteen] While Edith was left behind, Margot and Anne were transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration army camp on thirty October, where both contracted typhus in the winter of 1944.^[fourteen]

Margot Frank died in February 1945 at the historic period of 18 or 19 due to typhus. A few days later, Anne died due to the same disease.^[15] Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper and her sister Lientje buried them together in 1 of the camp'south mass graves; in July 1945, once she came back to the Netherlands and recovered from typhus, Janny wrote to Otto Frank and informed him that both of his daughters had died.^{[16] [17]}

Otto Frank was the but one to survive out of the eight people who went into hiding. When he returned to Amsterdam in June 1945 he was given Anne's diary past Miep Gies, which he published in 1947 as a remembrance to her. Along with Anne, Margot Frank also wrote a diary during their time in hiding (Anne mentioned her sister'southward diary in her own) but Margot'southward diary was never institute.^[18] However, many authors wrote fan-based diaries of Margot such as the novel The Silent Sis by Mazal Alouf-Mizrahi. Letters written by both Frank sisters to American pen pals were published in 2003.^[19] Buddy Elias (1925–2015) was Margot's and Anne'southward first cousin and last surviving close relative.^[20]

References [edit]

1. ^ "Margot Frank". annefrank.org. Archived from the original on two Jan 2018. Retrieved five March 2018.
2. ^ Rittner, Carol (1998). Anne Frank in the earth: essays and reflections. M.E. Sharpe. p. 111. ISBN978-0-7656-0020-2.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Margot Frank – Anne Frank Fonds". www.annefrank.ch . Retrieved 24 September 2020.
4. ^ Rol, Ruud van der (1993). Anne Frank, beyond the diary : a photographic remembrance. Verhoeven, Rian., Langham, Tony (Translator), Peters, Plym, Quindlen, Anna. New York: Viking. ISBN0-670-84932-4. OCLC 27186901.
5. ^ Heidermann, Horst (2002), "1847: Ein "Anti-Musik-Verein" im Wohnhaus der Familie Heine", Heine-Jahrbuch 2002, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 221–226, doi:ten.1007/978-3-476-02889-1_11, ISBN978-iii-476-01925-7
6. ^ ^{a b c} Verhoeven, Rian (2019). Anne Frank was niet alleen : het Merwedeplein, 1933–1945. Amsterdam: Prometheus. pp. vii–12, 25. ISBN978-xc-446-3041-ane. OCLC 1129599223.
7. ^ Rol, Ruud van der (1993). Anne Frank, beyond the diary : a photographic remembrance. Verhoeven, Rian., Langham, Tony (Translator), Peters, Plym. Quindlen, Anna. New York: Viking. p. 21. ISBN0-670-84932-4. OCLC 27186901.
8. ^ ^{a b c d} "Margot Frank". Anne Frank Fonds . Retrieved 25 August 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
9. ^ "Anne Frank". Anne Frank House. 4 August 2021. Retrieved iv August 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
10. ^ Barnouw, David; Van Der Stroom, Gerrold, eds. (2003). The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition. New York: Doubleday. p. 21. ISBN0-385-50847-half-dozen.
11. ^ "LOI course in Latin". Anne Frank House. four May 2018. Retrieved 25 Baronial 2021. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
12. ^ "The final ship from Westerbork to Auschwitz". Anne Frank Website. three September 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
13. ^ Lindwer, Willy (1988). The Last 7 Months of Anne Frank. Netherlands: Gooi & Sticht. p. 129. ISBN978-0-385-42360-1.
14. ^ Prins, Erika; Broek, Gertjan. "One day they simply weren't there any more than…" (PDF). Anne Frank Business firm. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
15. ^ Lindwer, Willy (1988). The Terminal 7 Months of Anne Frank. Netherlands: Gooi & Sticht. p. 74. ISBN978-0-385-42360-1.
16. ^ Lindwer, Willy (1988). The Concluding Seven Months of Anne Frank. Netherlands: Gooi & Sticht. pp. 83–84. ISBN978-0-385-42360-1.
17. ^ "Otto krijgt de dagboeken". Anne Frank Huis.. . Retrieved 11 August 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
18. ^ "Margot Frank". Anne Frank Stichting. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
19. ^ "Anne Frank and her Iowa Penpal". Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved sixteen March 2014.
20. ^ "Buddy Elias". Anne Frank Fonds. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)

Further reading [edit]

• Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold Van der Stroom, translated past Arnold J. Pomerans, compiled past H. J. J. Hardy, 2nd edition, Doubleday, 2001.
• Willy Lindwer. The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, Pan Macmillan, 1989.
• Jeroen De Bruyn and Joop van Wijk. Anne Frank: The Untold Story. The subconscious truth about Elli Vossen, the youngest helper of the Clandestine Addendum, Bep Voskuijl Producties, 2018.
• Rubin, Susan Goldman. Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa, Abrams, 2003.
• Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gilt. Anne Frank Remembered, Simon and Schuster, 1988.

External links [edit]

• Portrait of Margot Frank told by her school friends (English language Captions)
• Tour at the Frank family unit'south residential neighborhood in Amsterdam
• Information Margot Frank, website Anne Frank Foundation Basel

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Frank

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