Anne Frank Death: How long was Anne Frank in the concentration camp before she died?

After Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 and made life increasingly difficult for Jews, Anne Frank, her sister, and her parents moved to the Netherlands. In German-occupied Amsterdam, Frank and her family went into hiding in a secret apartment behind her father’s business in 1942.

Only Anne’s father survived the concentration camps after the Franks were discovered in 1944. The diary of Anne Frank’s family’s time in hiding, first published in 1947, has been translated into nearly 70 languages and is one of the most widely read Holocaust accounts.

Anne Frank and the other seven people in the Secret Annex were discovered by the Gestapo, the German secret state police, on August 4, 1944, after 25 months in hiding. The Gestapo had learned about the hiding place from an anonymous tipster (who has never been definitively identified).

The group was transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp complex in German-occupied Poland by freight train in September 1944. Anne and Margot Frank were sent to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in northern Germany, instead of Auschwitz.

The Frank sisters died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in February 1945 five months after their capture, and their bodies were thrown into a mass grave. British forces liberated the camp a few weeks later, on April 15, 1945.