On this Day of Remembrance, the Anne Frank Center USA remembers the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

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Dear Friends,

On January 27, 1945, Soviet Red Army troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex. Within months, Allied troops, pushing from the West, would free the last inmates of Nazi concentration camps. The war in Europe ended May 8, 1945.

In 2005, the United Nations designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day to fall on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, envisioning it to be a time of remembrance for all victims of the Nazis.

With incidents of antisemitism on the rise around the world, we are called upon to remember the Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, our minds turn to the fate of the members of the Frank family, whose hiding place was discovered just nine months before the end of the war in Europe.

From the time of the capture of the Frank family in Amsterdam, in August 1944, to the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, not half a year had passed. Anne, Margot, Edith, and Otto had been arrested, deported to the transit camp Westerbork, and from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving in September 1944. In October 1944, Margot and Anne were transported to the German concentration camp, Bergen Belsen, while Edith and Otto remained at Auschwitz.

On January 6, 1945, weeks before liberation, Edith Frank died of starvation at Auschwitz. Three weeks later, Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army. At the time of liberation, Otto Frank was alive in the men’s sick barracks.

In March of 1945, Anne and Margot Frank died in Bergen Belsen of typhus, a wasting disease that had taken over the camp. Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945.

Otto Frank was the sole survivor from the Secret Annex.

On this Day of Remembrance, the Anne Frank Center USA remembers the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, among them Anne Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank, and the other inhabitants of the Secret Annex: Auguste Van Pels, Hermann Van Pels, Peter Van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer.

We remember the millions of victims of the Nazi campaign of hate against people they deemed to be inferior, including Roma/Sinti, persons with disabilities, Europeans of African descent, LGBT individuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, political opponents, prisoners of war, and more.

We invite you to join us in remembrance and in our efforts to make positive change in our world.

Sincerely,

Dr. Lauren Bairnsfather

CEO, Anne Frank Center USA


The Anne Frank Center USA inspires emerging adults through arts-based educational programs in order to build the informed and compassionate world Anne imagined in the pages of her diary.


For Further Reading:

This resource from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum maps the journey of the Frank Family: [link removed]

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