Margot Frank, Anne Frank’s elder sister, receives call-up notice to report for deportation to forced-labor camp 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 5 1942)


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(Sunday, July 5, 1942, 3:00 p.m. Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust , part of World War II)Margot Frank, the 16-year-old sister of Anne Frank, 13, received a call-up notice to report for deportation to a forced-labor today from the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) at their Amsterdam apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede Square) in Nazi-occupied Holland.


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The notice ordered Margot to report to Central Station in Amsterdam on July 15, 1942, to be taken by train to a labor camp in Germany.

Margot and Anne’s father, Otto, told his family that they would have to go into hiding the following day in a secret apartment behind his company offices at 263 Prinsengracht, several weeks earlier than had been anticipated.


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Many final arrangements needed to be made and a few extra bundles of supplies and clothes needed to be taken to what became known as the Secret Annex ahead of their arrival. They spent the afternoon packing but then had to remain quiet and seem normal around their upstairs renter until he finally went to bed.

At around 11:00 p.m., one of Otto’s employees, Miep Gies, and her husband, Jan Gies, arrived to take some of the packed supplies to the Secret Annex.