Annelise Marie Frank (Anne): June 12, 1929 - Feb/Mar, 1945
Margot Frank: 1926 - Feb/Mar 1945
Peter van Pels: November 8, 1926 - May 5, 1945

On July 5, 1942, 16 year old Margot Frank was summoned by the Germans to report for deportation. The next day the Franks went into hiding and were shortly joined by the family of one of Otto Frank's business associates, Hermaan van Pels, his wife, Auguste and their son, Peter. Later they took in another Jew, an elderly dentist named Fritz Pfeffer. They lived in the rooms behind and above a building that served as a warehouse and office for Otto Frank's old business.

on August 4, 1944, following information provided by a Dutch informant, the Gestapo found their hiding place. The eight Jews were taken to the Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam and, after a few week's imprisonnement, were sent to Westerbork and then to the Auschwitz, Poland.

Peter van Pels was forced to take part in the January 16, 1945 "death march" from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, Austria, where he died on May 5, 1945, just three days before the camp was liberated. he was 19 years old.

Anne and Margot Frank remained at Auschwitz until the end of October 1944 when they were transported to the Bergan-Belson concentration camp near Hannover, Germany. The typhus epidemic that broke out in the winter of 1944-1945 as a result of the horrible hygenic conditions killed thousand of prisoners, including Margot at either the end of February or the beginning of March and, a few days later, Anne. The camp was liberated on April 12, 1945, and the war ended one month later, in May 1945. They were 19 and 15 years old, respectively.

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