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In the video, I explained how sorry I was that so little attention had been paid to Margot.
But her father told me that all the attention for Anne...
symbolised what all children went through during that period.
In the summer of 1941, our parents were informed...
that we were being expelled from school and we had to go to a Jewish school.
We were the only two Jewish girls in the class.
So we went together to the other school.
We were going from a 6-year high school to a 5-year school...
so we had to catch up in science.
Margot was extremely intelligent. She understood everything.
I was a complete ***, and besides I wasn't interested.
The Nazis had introduced so many measures against Jews telling us what we could do and what we had to do.
I wasn't interested, so I didn't give a damn about school.
But that made us very close.
It happened during the holidays. She didn't show up anymore.
It was the beginning of the deportation of the Jews.
I grabbed my bike and did something incredibly dangerous.
I biked to Anne and Margot's house. The front door was open.
I went inside, into Margot's room, and took a book from the bookshelf as a keepsake, and then I raced back home.
After the war, Otto Frank found me in The Hague.
I was working at the public library and he came to visit me one day.
He burst into tears and told me what happened to his family.
I was astonished and sad but...
so many people I knew and from my family had also been deported and killed...
that it was just more of the same. But I felt incredibly guilty that I was still alive and the others weren't.
So as you see Margot there, that's how she really was.
I'm incredibly pleased that attention is finally being paid to Margot.
I'm convinced that she would have become a truly exceptional woman.