Margot receives a call-up notice to report for deportation to a labor camp. The family goes into hiding the next day. The van Pels family, another Jewish family originally from Germany, joins the Frank family in hiding. The advance of the German Army into the Soviet Union is halted at the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. The tide of the war begins to turn against Germany.
Allies invade Western Europe.
They are taken to a police station in Amsterdam and eventually to the Westerbork transit camp. The eight prisoners are transported in a sealed cattle car to Auschwitz, on the last transport ever to leave Westerbork. Hermann van Pels is gassed a few weeks later. Anne and Margot Frank are sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Himmler orders troops to destroy the crematoria at Auschwitz to hide the Nazi war crimes.