Anne Frank died in February not March: Anne Frank Foundation
Anne Frank did not die on March 31 1945 as always assumed, but one month earlier in February, according to new research by the Anne Frank Foundation.
The Anne Frank Foundation has studied various archives and relevant witness statements and concluded that Anne and her sister Margot died in early February of typhus in Bergen-Belsen. The foundation runs the Prinsengracht centre in Amsterdam in the house where the Frank family hid from the Nazis.
The last time a camp survivor saw Anne was sometime before February 7. She met Anne in the camp and gave her a food parcel organised by Auguste van Pels, who had shared Anne’s hiding place in Amsterdam. Van Pels was transported to another work camp on February 7, the foundation discovered.
In addition, several others who knew Anne and Margot and who were transported with Van Pels said they had noticed the signs of typhus in the two girls.
The foundation says the chances that the girls lived until March with this disease are slim. According to the public health institute RIVM most victims die 12 days after the first signs appear. And because they were in a weakened state when they reached Bergen-Belsen they would have died some time in February.
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