Anne Frank · every age
What was Anne Frank doing at 15?
Got a diary at 13, hid for two years, read by millions
- Aug 4, 1944
Arrested with all eight in the Annex after two years hidden
Who betrayed them, if anyone, has never been settled. Helper Miep Gies saved the diary pages.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Sep 3, 1944
Deported to Auschwitz on the last transport from Westerbork
She was 15, just old enough to escape immediate selection for the gas chambers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Nov 1944
Moved to Bergen-Belsen with Margot
Their mother stayed behind and died in Auschwitz in January.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Feb 1945
Died of typhus at 15, weeks before the camp was liberated
In February or early March 1945; the Dutch authorities recorded 31 March. Her father was the only one of the eight to survive.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 15
Portrait: Photo: Unknown photographer (May 1942), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
