My Meetings with Anne Frank. Revelations of a Survivor in a Concentration Camp

The author of these bestselling memoirs of the Holocaust, Nanette Blitz Konig (b. 1929), was a school friend of Anne Frank, whose famous diary embodies the tragedy of the Jewish people during World War II. On the pages of her book, where the daily struggle for life in a Nazi concentration camp is described in gut-wrenching detail, Nanette recounts the incredible story of survival in the Bergen-Belsen camp in northwestern Germany. There she met her classmate Anne Frank, whose meetings and conversations in the concentration camp she remembers in all details to this day. There were no gas chambers in Bergen-Belsen, but between 1943 and 1945, around 50,000 prisoners died there, over 35,000 of whom perished from typhus just before liberation. Among the deceased were Anne Frank, her sister Margot, and all of Nanette's family. Weighing only 32 kilograms, she miraculously managed to survive…