of Margot’s death, she was either 18 or 19 years old at the time.

Her birthday was
the same month that she died.

Anne was 15.

However, there was one person from the
Secret Annex who did survive.

It was Otto, Edith’s husband.

He was liberated on the 27th of
January 1945 when the Soviets entered Auschwitz.

On the way back to the Netherlands he found out
that Edith had died.

But he hoped that their daughters Anne and Margot had somehow survived.

He returned to the liberated Netherlands on the 3rd of June 1945 – 9 days before what
would have been Anne’s 16th birthday.

All hope was lost one month later when Otto
learned about the death of his daughters.

Miep Gies, one of the helpers of the Secret
Annex, passed him Anne’s diary papers.

After he found enough courage to read
it, he was astonished by her writing.

He also read about Anne’s dreams to become
a writer and journalist and her intention to publish a novel about their life in the
Secret Annex after the war would be over.

In the end, at least Anne’s dreams would come
true, and the world learned about her story as well as that of her sister Margot
and other members of the Secret Annex.

First 3,000 copies of Anne’s book – “Secret Annex”
– were published in 1947.

Since then, the book has been translated into over 70 languages.

People
all over the world were introduced to Anne’s story and in 1960, the hiding place which for
2 years became the home to 8 people who tried to survive the atrocities of the criminal Nazi
regime, became a museum: the Anne Frank House.

Today, you can even visit the house in which
Margot and Anne spent 761 long days.

You can also see Anne’s room that has walls brightened
with picture postcards and movie stars which Anne collected and see her original diary and other
manuscripts which she wrote until her arrest.

When Edith perished in the death camp in
January 1945, she was a young woman who had to die only because she was Jewish.

We must never forget the Holocaust and keep alive a memory of people like Edith,
Margot and Anne Frank as well as all the others who perished together with all their
families and have nobody to remember them.

We must make these victims live forever
in order to remind us of the dangers of discrimination and racism, and hatred towards
each other as the history often repeats itself.

There were many tears shed for Edith Frank.

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