A Train Called Anne Frank? German Railway Plan Prompts Outcry<br />Now, 73 years after she boarded that wagon, leaving behind a diary<br />that would one day be read around the world, Deutsche Bahn has announced that it plans to name a new high-speed train after her.<br />Deutsche Bahn said that in September it had asked members of the public to give suggestions for names for its fourth generation of high-speed trains, receiving 19,400 responses, and<br />that Anne Frank was among the most popular suggestions.<br />Supported by By Dan Bilefsky Toward the end of 1944, after the Gestapo raided the Amsterdam canal house where they had hidden, Anne Frank<br />and her family were crammed into a cattle wagon on a train bound for Auschwitz.<br />Anne Frank, then 15, died there of typhus in February 1945, shortly after Margot,<br />who died around her 19th birthday, according to the Anne Frank House.<br />On the night of Nov. 1, 1944, Anne and her sister Margot were deported by train in<br />an overcrowded cattle wagon to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany.<br />Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived: He returned to Amsterdam after the liberation of Auschwitz and published her diary.<br />to disrespect the memory of Anne Frank in any way whatsoever," it said in a statement on Monday.
