As most people know, Anne Frank was the Jewish girl who's family hid in Amsterdam from the Nazis before getting caught and taken to the infamous German camps, and also famously kept a diary that would ultimately be published and become an iconic work documenting those times and trials.
For a long time, it was believed that she had died on March 31, 1945 - a little less than a month and a half before Germany's final surrender.
However, as it turns out, it is now believed that she actually died a month earlier than previously believed.
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam announced this past Tuesday suggested that the death of Anne and her sister Margot had to have happened in the month of February at the Bergen-Belsen death camp, although they had been marked by the Red Cross as occurring between March 1-31, and Dutch authorities later estimated that it had been on March 31, 1945.
The Franks had originally been taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but Anne and her sister had been taken from there to Bergen-Belsen once the Red Army advance had reached Auschwitz. Four survivors now report that the Frank sisters had show signs of typhus as early as January. Most of those who died of typhus did so approximately after the first signs of typhus appeared, making it unlikely that the Franks made it as long as March 31.
Here is the link to the story:
Anne Frank died earlier than thought, new study says by AFP, March 31, 2015
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