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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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... About Anne Frank |
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1. Who was in the Secret Annex with Anne Frank, who helped them, and what happened to everyone? 
The Inhabitants of the Secret Annex:
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| Name in the Diary |
Real Name
(Date of Death) |
Date of Birth
(Place of Death) |
| Anne Frank |
Anneliese Frank
(d. March 1945) |
b. June 12, 1929
(Bergen-Belsen) |
| Margot Frank |
Margot Frank
(d. March 1945) |
b. February 16, 1926
(Bergen-Belsen) |
| Otto Frank |
Otto Frank
(d. August 19, 1980) |
b. May 12, 1889
(Birsfelden, Switzerland) |
| Edith Frank-Höllander |
Edith Frank-Höllander
(d. January 6, 1945) |
b. January 16, 1900
(Auschwitz) |
| Mr. van Daan |
Hermann van Pels
(Unknown) |
b. March 31, 1890
(Auschwitz) |
| Mrs. van Daan |
Auguste van Pels-Röttgen
(d. Spring 1945) |
b. September 29, 1900
(Theresienstadt) |
| Peter van Daan |
Peter van Pels
(d. May 5, 1945) |
b. November 8, 1926
(Mauthausen) |
| Alfred Dussel |
Fritz Pfeffer
(d. December 20, 1944) |
b. April 30, 1889
(Neuengamme) |
The Helpers:
The number of people assisting those hidden in the Secret Annex is generally listed as four, although some sources, like the list below, list five. Four trusted employees of Otto Frank were informed of his plans and are counted as helpers: Miep Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, and Elli Voskuijl. The fifth, Miep's husband, Jan Gies, whom she married in 1941, became a helper in a very real and practical sense, though he worked as a social worker, not a Frank employee.
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| Name in the Diary |
Real Name
(Date of Death) |
Date of Birth
(Place of Death) |
| Miep van Santen |
Hermine (Miep) Gies
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b. February 15, 1909
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| Henk van Santen |
Jan Gies
(d. January 26, 1993) |
b. February 18, 1905
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
| Koophuis |
Johannes Kleiman
(d. January 30, 1959) |
b. August 17, 1896
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| Kraler |
Victor Kugler
(d. December 16, 1981) |
b. June 5, 1900
(Toronto, Canada) |
| Elli Vossen |
Elizabeth (Bep) van Wijk-Voskuijl
(d. May 6, 1983) |
b. July 5, 1919
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
More information about Anne Frank can be found through these resources from the Museum Library:
Answers to many other frequently-asked questions about Anne Frank can be found on the Web site of the Anne Frank Center, USA.
2. What was Anne Frank's tattoo ID number?
On September 3, 1944, Anne, along with her mother, Edith, her sister, Margot, and her father, Otto, boarded the last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The transport arrived in Auschwitz on September 5, 1944 with 1,019 Jews on board. Men and women were separated. The women selected from this transport, including Anne, Edith, and Margot, were marked with numbers between A-25060 and A-25271. Records indicating their exact numbers have not been preserved. Approximately eight weeks later, in late October 1944, Anne and Margot were transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Bergen-Belsen, where they both died sometime in March 1945. Though Anne's death certificate documents her movement between camps, it, too, does not include her tattoo ID number.
Sources: Robert M. W. Kempner, Edith Stein und Anne Frank: Zwei von Hunderttausend (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1968), pp. 60-63.
Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle (New York: H. Holt, 1997), p. 702.
More information about Anne Frank can be found through these resources from the Museum Library:
Answers to many other frequently-asked questions about Anne Frank can be found on the Web site of the Anne Frank Center, USA.
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| Latest update: January 14, 2008 |
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