Ruth Wiener sees Anne and Margot in Bergen-Belsen
Ruth Wiener wrote in her diary on 20 December 1944 that she saw Anne and Margot in Bergen-Belsen camp.
Ruth Wiener (1927-2011) noted in her diary on 20 December 1944 : "Anne and Margot Frank in the other camp!" [1] From 1943 on, Ruth wrote in her diary things that struck her in Camp Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen.[2] Her diary is the only contemporary document that testifies to Anne and Margot Frank's presence in Bergen-Belsen camp.
Ruth Wiener knew Anne and especially Margot from the Liberal Jewish Congregation and the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. She did not speak to them in Bergen-Belsen, but only saw them. Ruth Wiener said that when a transport arrived, murmurs went round: "Who was on it? Dutch people?" She always went to see, and thus saw the Frank sisters.[2]