Names of Margot Frank
Variations of Margot Frank's name.
Margot's official name was: Margot Betti Frank.[1] Betti possibly referred to Edith's sister Bettina, who died young[2] and/or to her paternal grandmother, Alice Betty Frank-Stern.[3]
A pet name for Margot was Mutz, meaning little bear.[4] On the back of a photograph of Margot is written: Viele Grüsse Dein Mutzelein.[5]
Jewish women with a non-Biblical first name were given the name 'Sara' as a compulsory addition in Germany during the Nazi regime. In the records of the Emigration Bureau, located on Lijnbaansgracht in Amsterdam and part of the Jewish Council, Margot was therefore given the name: Frank, Margot Betti Sara.[6]
Margot's maternal grandmother, Alice Frank-Stern, called her ange ('angel' in French) in a 1950 letter .[7]
When Anne Frank wrote the second version (the B version) of her diary, she wrote a list of the names she wanted to give the people in a book to be published later. She first wanted to call her sister Betty Aulis, and later Betty Robin.[8] Otto Frank did not adopt those names and kept the surname Frank in the first edition of the diary (1947).[9]
Footnotes
- ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Margot Frank.
- ^ Melissa Müller en Carol Ann Lee beweren dat Margot vernoemd is naar haar tante Bettina Höllander. Waar zij dit op baseren is niet duidelijk. Zie: Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1998, p. 23; Carol Ann Lee, Anne Frank 1929-1945. Pluk rozen op aarde en vergeet mij niet, Amsterdam: Balans, 1998, p. 28.
- ^ Familiearchief Anne Frank-Fonds, Bazel, Alice Frank, AFF_AlF_pdoc_02: Familien-Stammbuch Michael Frank en Alice Stern.
- ^ Diverse agendanotities door de loop der jaren heen op 16 februari, Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code OFA_003 - 033: Brief Otto Frank aan Meyer Levin, 18 september 1952.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_MFrank_III_012: Studiofoto uit 1929.
- ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, toegangsnummer 77, Generalkommissariat für das Sicherheitswesen, inv. nr. 1480.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_071: Alice Frank-Stern aan een onbekende, 4 september 1950.
- ^ 'Pseudoniemenlijstje', in: Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (NIOD) (samenst.), De dagboeken van Anne Frank, 5e, verb. en uitgebr. druk, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2001, p. 70.
- ^ Anne Frank, Het Achterhuis: dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944, Amsterdam: Contact, 1947.