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Edith Frank
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “mother of anne frank and margot frank”. Today it says “mother of holocaust diarist anne frank and her older sister margot”. This article was filed under Dutch people murdered abroad. Today it is filed under none of them.
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Edith Frank ( née Holländer ; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank , and her older sister Margot . After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp .
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mother of anne frank and margot frank
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mother of holocaust diarist anne frank and her older sister margot
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