Bergen-Belsen Memorial
1940–1945
Liberated by British troops who found 13,000 unburied dead
Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Lohheide, Lower Saxony
In memory of
Anne Frank
Diarist, died at fifteen in Bergen-Belsen
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 15 years
- Resting place
- Memorial stone, Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony — she lies in a mass grave, Germany
Anne was given a diary for her thirteenth birthday, three weeks before her family went into hiding in Amsterdam. She wrote in it for two years and had begun rewriting it as a book, having heard on the radio that wartime diaries would be wanted afterwards.
After the arrest she was sent to Auschwitz and then to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus with her sister Margot, probably in February 1945 — the exact date is not known. The camp was liberated weeks later. Her father published the diary in 1947; it has since been read in more than seventy languages.
This page was written by the site, from public historical records.