Otto Frank confirms his daughters Margot, Anne are dead 80 years ago today (July 18 1945)


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(Wednesday, July 18, 1945; during World War II)Otto Frank, who had returned to Amsterdam on June 3, 1945, having been liberated Jan. 27, 1945, at the Auschwitz concentration camp, confirmed today (via a Red Cross list, then confirmation from Lin Brilleslijper, a fellow inmate of the Frank girls at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp) that his daughters, Margot and Anne, had died in the Holocaust some time .


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Otto was soon given Anne’s diary by Miep Gies, who had helped protect the family in hiding (1942-44), which he later published as a remembrance to her.


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