Violent storm forces Anne, Margot Frank out of tents at Bergen-Belsen 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 7 1944)


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(Tuesday, November 7, 1944; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — About four days after their arrival at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank and her older sister, Margot’s stay in a tent camp came to a dramatic close when a violent storm swept many of the tents away.


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For hours the women stood in the hail and the streaming rain, thin blankets over their shoulders; then they were driven with blows into the kitchen tent and had to spend the night there.


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The next morning they were put in the show workshop to wait while the Sternlager hospital, the old age home, and two more barracks were cleared within an hour to make room for the women.

It took another few weeks before the situation finally settled down; the “Auschwitz women” all ended up in the former Sternlager and Margot and Anne were among them.

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