Young people over 16 were called up for labour camp. That is why the Franks, who were part of our community, went into hiding. Margo, the older one, whom [sister] Ruth knew better actually – she didn’t know Anne so well – was 16. She was just that bit older and was called up for labour camp… That’s when they hid because young people who went to… very few of them ever came back.
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