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The Germans occupied Amsterdam in May 1940. In July 1942, German authorities and their Dutch collaborators egan to conce trate Jews from throughout the Netherlands at Westerbork, a transit camp near the Dutch town of Assen, not far from the German border. from Westerbork, Germanofficials deported the Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor killing centers in German-occupied Poland.
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The Gestapo discobered the hiding place afeer being tipped off by and anonymous Dutch caller
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Gestapo official Ss Sergeant Karl Silberbauer and two Dutch poliece collaborators arrested the Franks; the Gestapo sent them to Westerbork on August 8.
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The transport arrived in auschwitz on Septemer5, 1944 with 1,019 Jews on board. Men and women were separated. The women selected form theis transprt, including Anne, Edith, and Margot, were marded with #'s A-25060 and A 25271. Records indicating their exact numbers have not been preserbed.
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A month later, in September 1944 SS and poliece authorities placed the Franks , and the four others hiding with the franks, on a tran transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz, a concentration camp complex in German -occupied Poland.
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Both sisters died to typhus in March 1945, just a few weeks before British troops librated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945. SSofficials also selected Anne's [arents for labor. Anne's mother, Edith died in Auschwitz in early January 1945. Only Anne's father, Otto, survived the war. Soviet forces liberated Otto at auschwitz on January 27, 1945.
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While in hiding, Anne kept a diary in which she recorded her fears, hopes,and esperiences. Found in the secret apartment afeter the family was arrested, the diary was kept for anne by Miep Gies, one of the people who had hel[ed hide the Franks. It was pblished after the war in many languages and is used in thousands of middle school and high school curricula in Europe and the Americas. Anne Frank has become a symbol for the lost promise of the children who died in the Holocaus.
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On September 3, 1944, Anne, along with her mother, Edith, her sister,Margot, and her father, Otto, boarded the transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz-birkenau.
