Margot Frank Appreciation Thread

All eight of the annex members' stories are tragic in a unique aspect, but, in my opinion, Margot's just might have been the most tragic. It may have been the most tragic because of how unrealized her life was.

Unlike Anne, she never found love, and unlike her mother or Mrs. Van Pels, she never married. She was just a nice, quiet girl who did everything she was told, was studious, and who, from the looks of it, asked for nothing, although she deserved everything. And, what was it she wanted to do with her life? She wanted to go to Palestine to be a nurse.

That she was sent into hiding, and was eventually sent to Auschwitz, and finally Belsen, for the mistake of being born Jewish, is heart-breaking, because like Anne, she was so completely unprepared for the inhumanity that existed there.

Despite, this, she was still motivated by selfless love, one so selfless that she volunteered herself to go with Anne into the scabies block, putting her own life at risk (in fact, that decision likely cost her life, as otherwise she could have gone on to munitions and likely survived). Her death is the most crushing part of the movie, because she was even more innocent than Anne, only she lacked Anne's spirit to survive.

So, I just started this thread up for discussions about Margot Frank, because she is so rarely discussed here or anywhere, for that matter. BTW, did anyone see her exhibit at the Anne Frank Museum? Is it still there, or has it been taken down, yet? I will probably never see it, but with any luck it will be put back up periodically, because my goal is to make a trip out there someday.