Frank, Margot (1926–1945)

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Frank, Margot (1926–1945)

Sister of Anne Frank. Born Margot Betti Frank, Feb 1926, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; died of typhus in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in Mar 1945; dau. of Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Hollander; sister of Anne Frank.

An excellent student and unfailingly polite, was pretty, bookish, and much more introspective than her sociable younger sister.

See also The Diary of Anne Frank, a play in two-acts by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (1955); and Women in World History.