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What happened?

What happened?. Westerbork. Transit camp located in the Netherlands. Prisoners went here before being sent to other camps. All 8 members of the secret annex were sent here. Auschwitz. September 3 – Members of the secret annex were sent on the last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz.

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What happened?

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  1. What happened?

  2. Westerbork • Transit camp located in the Netherlands. • Prisoners went here before being sent to other camps. • All 8 members of the secret annex were sent here.

  3. Auschwitz • September 3 – Members of the secret annex were sent on the last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz. • All of them survived selection.

  4. Edith Frank • When Anne and Margot became sick at Auschwitz, Edith saved all her food rations and gave them to the girls. • After the girls left, Edith died from starvation.

  5. Anne and Margot Frank • October 28 – Anne and Margot were sent to Bergen Belsen. • Both girls fell victim to the typhus outbreak at the camp in March 1945, Anne only • a few days later than Margot. • The camp was liberated by the British in April.

  6. Otto Frank • Otto remained at Auschwitz and was liberated in January 1945. • He went back to Amsterdam and lived with Miep and Henk while getting his life back together. • He later remarried and had Anne’s diary published.

  7. Peter Van Daan • Peter was evacuated on a forced march when the Germans abandoned Auschwitz to the Russians. • He arrived at Mauthausen Concentration Camp in January 1945 and placed in an outdoor labor group. • In April Peter was sent to the sick barracks and died in May.

  8. Auguste Van Daan • Auguste is sent to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp with eight other women in November 1944. • In February 1945, she is deported to Raguhn and in April to Theresienstadt (in Czechoslovakia), where she died shortly after arrival.

  9. Hermann Van Daan • Hermann survived the selection at Auschwitz in September 1944. • He is gassed to death a few weeks later.

  10. Fritz Pfeffer • From Auschwitz, Pfeffer was sent to Neuengamme and died there December 20, 1944. • He was married posthumously in April 1953 to a Christian woman. • His son Werner survived the war in England and later moved to the U.S.

  11. Who Else? • Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleinman were arrested and sent to a prison for enemies of the regime in the Netherlands. • Kleinman was released after 7 weeks, but Kugler worked at various camps until the war’s end. • Miep Gies wrote a book, Anne Frank Remembered, and gave many presentations about her interactions with the people hiding in the Annex. She died in 2010.

  12. Sources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank • http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005217 • http://isurvived.org/AUSCHWITZ_TheCamp.html • http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005224 • http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Mauthausen/KZMauthausen/index.html • http://www.stamp-collecting-world.com/bohemiaandmoravia_theres.html • http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005539

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