Anne Frank after

Details of Anne Frank’s post-capture incarceration are not exactly uplifting: The seven month-long demise of a 15-year old girl through starvation, scabies and typhus is a poor postscript to the “people are really good at heart” message, the one most lifted from her diary.

What happened to Anne Frank after the Secret Annex?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by postroad | Comments Off

Anne Frank (L) plays with her friend Hanneli Goslar (R) on the Merwedeplein square in Amsterdam, May 1941 (photo credit: AP Photo/Anne Frank House Amsterdam/Anne Frank Fonds Basel photo collections)

Frank arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau after an unprecedented, summer-long killing frenzy in which more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews were gassed.

The Frank and van Pels families had maintained good health during two years in hiding, so they survived the initial “selection” between work and death. Even having landed in Auschwitz, the families could hope that labor and a swift Allied victory would see them through.

What happened to Anne Frank after the Secret Annex?
—70 years after their capture, the Frank girls’ last seven months in camps is well documented, but still rarely discussed