Anne Frank’s chilling life at Auschwitz as ‘sunny, smiling’ girl became ‘walking skeleton’ wrapped in lice-infested rags
Anne Frank’s chilling life at Auschwitz as ‘sunny, smiling’ girl became ‘walking skeleton’ wrapped in lice-infested rags
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STANDING pale as a ghost, Anne Frank shivered as she hauled stones in the blistering cold - while Nazi guards hurled insults around her. Forced to sleep in a freezing, overcrowded hut with little food, it wasn't long before the teenager fell seriously ill with scabies and became too unwell to work.
![[Black and white photo of Anne Frank.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1945-colour-detailed-smell-wartime-602494112.jpg?strip=all&w=636)
This was the heartbreaking reality of the young girl's life at first Auschwitz and then Bergen Belsen concentration camp, where she and her sister died in February 1945. Despite her diary posthumously propelling her to international fame, the talented writer's final days remained shrouded in mystery for decades.
The family had spent two years in hiding before their location was given to the Nazis, allegedly by fellow Jew Arnold van den Bergh in a bid to save his family, according to recent findings. Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, this is the chilling story of what happened to the Franks next - and how the death camp ripped countless families like theirs apart.
![[Wooden bookcase concealing a hidden door.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ef680694-d5d8-4841-997e-4f8b4f19e926.jpg?strip=all&w=588)
Upon arrival at Auschwitz, each transportation was separated into those who could work and those who would be killed. Anne, then 15, was the youngest person in her group to not be sent directly to the gas chambers. While at the death camp she remained with her mum, Edith, and her sister - but her father, Otto, was forcibly separated from his family due to his gender.
![[Colorized photo of Jewish children at Auschwitz behind barbed wire.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/NINTCHDBPICT000705931482.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
