Margot Betti Frank (16 February 1926 – early March 1945) was the older sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding, and who subsequently perished in Bergen-Belsen. Margot was also keeping a diary as mentioned by Anne Frank in her diary. However, no trace of Margot's diary was ever found after the arrest.
Margot Betti Frank was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, she was named after her maternal aunt...
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Margot Betti Frank (16 February 1926 – early March 1945) was the older sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding, and who subsequently perished in Bergen-Belsen. Margot was also keeping a diary as mentioned by Anne Frank in her diary. However, no trace of Margot's diary was ever found after the arrest.
Margot Betti Frank was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, she was named after her maternal aunt Bettina Holländer (1898-1914) and lived in the outer suburbs of the city with her parents, Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Holländer, and her sister, Anne Frank, during the early years of her life.
She attended the Ludwig-Richter School in Frankfurt-am-Main until the appointment of Adolf Hitler on 30 January 1933 to the position of Chancellor in Germany brought an increase of anti-Jewish measures, among which was the expulsion of Jewish schoolchildren from non-denominational schools. In response to the rising tide of anti-semitism, the family...
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