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Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
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Anne Frank
Diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl and diarist. She gained worldwide fame posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Margot Frank
Older sister of Anne Frank and Holocaust victim (1926–1945)
Margot Betti Frank was the elder daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank and the elder sister of Anne Frank. Margot's deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding. According to the diary of her younger sister, Anne, Margot kept a diary of her own, but…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Poland (1940–1945)
Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Germany (1940–1945)
Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)