17 Facts About Margot Frank

Margot Frank died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from a typhus outbreak.

Margot Frank's rise to power brought about an increase of anti-Jewish measures, among which was the expulsion of Jewish schoolchildren from non-denominational schools.

Margot Frank moved to Amsterdam in December 1933, followed by Anne in February 1934.

Margot Frank was enrolled in an elementary school on Amsterdam's Jekerstraat, close to their new address on Merwedeplein, in the southern part of Amsterdam.

At the Jewish Lyceum, Margot Frank displayed the studiousness and intelligence which had made her excel at her previous schools, and was remembered by former pupils as virtuous, reserved, and very obedient.

Margot Frank had a large circle of friends and enjoyed rowing and playing tennis in her spare time.

Margot Frank is shown to have a much better relationship with their mother, and had a much more modest and tolerant nature as opposed to Anne, who was determined and often spoke her mind.

Margot Frank followed the example of her mother, who became involved in Amsterdam's Liberal Jewish community.

Margot Frank took Hebrew classes, attended synagogue, and in 1941 joined a Dutch Zionist club for young people who wanted to immigrate to Palestine to found a Jewish state, where, as Anne Frank described in her diary, she wished to become a midwife.

On 5 July 1942, Margot Frank received a notice to report to a labor camp in Germany and the next day went into hiding with her family in the secret annex of her father's company on Prinsengracht, in the city center of Amsterdam.

Margot Frank was sixteen years old when she went into hiding.

At first she shared a bedroom with Anne, but when Fritz Pfeffer moved in to the Secret Annex in November 1942, Margot Frank slept in her parents' bedroom.

Margot Frank took a correspondence course in Latin, not under her own name, but under the name of Bep Voskuijl, one of the helpers.

Early in her diary, Anne states that Margot Frank has a diary.

Margot Frank died in February or March of 1945 at the age of 19 from typhus; Anne succumbed to the same disease a day or two later.

Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper and her sister Lientje buried them together in one of Bergen-Belsen's mass graves; in July 1945, once Janny came back to the Netherlands and recovered from typhus, she wrote to Otto Margot Frank and informed him that both of his daughters had died.

Otto Margot Frank was the only person to survive out of the eight people who went into hiding.