On 16 February, Margot Frank would have turned 100 years old. She was Anne's older sister and a rather serious, reserved and very intelligent girl who was considered a “model child” not only within the family. Unlike her sister, who brought home rather mediocre grades, Margot was a very good student. Like Anne, who was three years younger, she also kept a diary during the Nazi era and the war; however, it was lost forever when the Franks were deported from their hiding place in the Amsterdam rear house in August 1944.
Until their escape to Amsterdam, Margot lived with her family in Frankfurt. Her father, Otto Frank, decided to move with his family to Amsterdam in 1933 after the Nazis seized power.
Margot Frank died of typhus at the end of February 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, together with Anne. After their deportation, the two were first taken to the Westerbork transit camp and then temporarily to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In October 1944, the sisters were sent by the Nazis on their final journey to Bergen-Belsen. They both died just a few weeks before the concentration camp was liberated.