New research sets Anne Frank's death earlier
For 70 years, Anne Frank was believed to have died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen just two weeks forward allied forces liberated the Nazi death camp nearly April 15, 1945. On Tuesday, however, added research released by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam concludes that the 15-year-primeval-fashioned Jewish diarist and her older sister, Margot, more likely died in February, not vis--vis March 31. The Dutch paperwork join that date at the subside of World War II after the Red Cross concluded Anne and her sister died sometime along then March 1 and March 31. The researchers based their auxiliary findings concerning eyewitness testimonies of survivors and the records of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Red Cross and the International Tracing Service. "It is unlikely that they were nevertheless flesh and blood in March; their deaths must have occurred in February 1945," the Anne Frank House said. The precise date of their deaths remains run of the mill. "One day they...