The final transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz

On September 3, 1944, Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was on the final transport from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. An excerpt from the article:

"Even in the Secret Annex, Anne Frank had been aware of the existence of Westerbork. She had learned about the war and the persecution of the Jews from the helpers and from radio broadcasts. On, B version, 9 October 1942, Anne Frank wrote in her diary: ‘Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo are treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe where they're sending all the Jews.’ She added: ‘If it's this bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed. Perhaps that's the quickest way to die.’

Arrival at Auschwitz
Anne Frank's final diary entry dates from 1 August 1944, three days before her arrest. The only information we have about what happened to Anne Frank in the six months between the arrest and her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp comes from the testimonies of others. In an interview in 1979, Otto Frank, Anne's father, said about their arrival at Auschwitz: ‘I don't want to talk anymore about what I felt when my family was split up on arrival at the platform in Auschwitz.’"