Anne Frank~ Beyond The Diary

Blog Eight (Last One!)

In this last section, I learned about when The Van Daan and Frank families are discovered.  It all started when Mr. Frank was supposed to be tutoring Peter, they heard voices downstairs.  I would have an emergency ladder to go out the window at times like these to escape!  Sadly, they were found!  It had been two years since they had arrived at the Secret Annex, how did they survive?  Especially Anne, who was an energetic kind of girl!  The prisoners were taken into a German car, and from there they went to the camps.  The pages of Anne's diaries lay on the floor of the Annex.  When they got to the concentration camps, Anne and Margot had to leave their mom.  What shocked me was that Anne had never gotten along with her mom, so why would she just leave her without telling her mom that she was sorry!  

The End of the Families:

Mrs Van Daan- Transferred tp Theresienstadt, she died in the Spring of 1945.

Peter Van Daan- Died in Mauthausen on May 5, 1945.

Mrs. Frank- Survived for only a few more months, and soon died in Auschwitz on January 6, 1945.

Margot- Her hair had been cut off, she had been sleeping in barracks crammed with women.  She died in March 1945.

Anne- Her hair had also been cut off and stuck with Margot.  She died a few days after Margot.

Mr. Frank- He was the only one to survive the war.  He took a long journey back to Amsterdam, when he arrived on June 3rd, he wanted to see Miep.  Miep had kept Anne's diaries the whole time.  Mr. Frank died on August 19th, 1980.