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What Happened to Anne Frank?
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Anne Frank’s family was betrayed. They were arrested three days after the the date of the last entry in her diary.

All Dutch Jewish Holocaust victims were sent to the Westerbork transit camp in Northeastern Netherlands. The last train from Westerbork to Auschwitz consisted of Anne Frank and her family.  The following shows the pictorial depiction of the movement of the family through the stages.

       

Westerbork, 7 August 1944

Anne Frank and her family are deported to Westerbork after being arrested in Netherlands.

      

Train ride, 3 September 1944      

Anne Frank and her family are moved from the transit camp to one of the main Nazi concentration camps called Auschwitz.

    

Auschwitz, 6 September 1944

After a suffocating 3-day journey, Anne Frank and her family arrive in Auschwitz.

Anne Frank died six months later in March 1944. She died of typhus.

The British liberated the Auschwitz camp one month later.

Here is a video animation of Anne Frank’s life.

To find out more about the life of Anne Frank and the details of what really happened, please click on this link. It directs you to the official Anne Frank website, which contains the full timeline of Anne’s life, as well as related pictures of artefacts and other primary sources that will be valuable to your understanding of the mystery.