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I can wholeheartedly recommend Nanette's book as an accompaniment to the diary for use in the Holocaust curriculum. Nanette's experiences at Bergen-Belsen mirror what Anne will also have experienced in a way that is both central to Holocaust Education and the life of Anne Frank. - Ronald Leopold, Executive Director of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam Her book can serve as a valuable, enlightening and educational sequel to the diary of Anne Frank who did not have the chance to continue writing after her arrest and deportation. It is also a powerful warning to all of us in a carelessly history-forgotten time. - Melissa M ller, author of Anne Frank. The Biography A touching tour de force of a holocaust memoir. This story is told in a very personal way which greatly helped forge a relationship of both sympathy and utmost respect for Nanette. By the end of the book, one can derive multiple messages from her memoir, the one that stuck to me is how she had faced such arduous hardships, yet still found the strength to make the most of her life, ultimately finding motivations to continue moving forward. - K. Rai Raw! Heartbreaking! Powerful! Emotional! - Marcia A powerful book that everyone must read. The atrocities that were committed during the holocaust are beyond comprehension. Nannette survived and went on to have a beautiful family. God bless you Mrs. Konig and thank you for putting pen to paper and reliving the horror, so that future generations will know the true story. - Amy Brooks Besides the recollection of the horrific conditions that Holocaust survivors endured, Konig relates the psychological effects. As much as the lack of food and hygiene she explains how it feels to lose your dignity, freedom, and lack of identity. She also reminds the reader of the conditions that make such things possible. - Debbie Shoulders This author overcame unimaginable events, and has demonstrated the true definition of resilience. She selflessly tells her story in such an intense and detailed way, and all the way through it remains so reader-friendly and organized. I was able to visualize the majority of the events, people, and environments she speaks about, and I feel that if her goal was to educate others on the realities of the Holocaust, in addition to perpetuating the very impactful 'never forget' mantra, significant in keeping alive the memories of the millions affected by the Holocaust, then she was fully successful.- Ganessa Press

I can wholeheartedly recommend Nanette's book as an accompaniment to the diary for use in the Holocaust curriculum. Nanette's experiences at Bergen-Belsen mirror what Anne will also have experienced in a way that is both central to Holocaust Education and the life of Anne Frank. - Ronald Leopold, Executive Director of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam Her book can serve as a valuable, enlightening and educational sequel to the diary of Anne Frank who did not have the chance to continue writing after her arrest and deportation. It is also a powerful warning to all of us in a carelessly history-forgotten time. - Melissa Muller, author of Anne Frank. The Biography A touching tour de force of a holocaust memoir. This story is told in a very personal way which greatly helped forge a relationship of both sympathy and utmost respect for Nanette. By the end of the book, one can derive multiple messages from her memoir, the one that stuck to me is how she had faced such arduous hardships, yet still found the strength to make the most of her life, ultimately finding motivations to continue moving forward. - K. Rai Raw! Heartbreaking! Powerful! Emotional! - Marcia A powerful book that everyone must read. The atrocities that were committed during the holocaust are beyond comprehension. Nannette survived and went on to have a beautiful family. God bless you Mrs. Konig and thank you for putting pen to paper and reliving the horror, so that future generations will know the true story. - Amy Brooks Besides the recollection of the horrific conditions that Holocaust survivors endured, Konig relates the psychological effects. As much as the lack of food and hygiene she explains how it feels to lose your dignity, freedom, and lack of identity. She also reminds the reader of the conditions that make such things possible. - Debbie Shoulders This author overcame unimaginable events, and has demonstrated the true definition of resilience. She selflessly tells her story in such an intense and detailed way, and all the way through it remains so reader-friendly and organized. I was able to visualize the majority of the events, people, and environments she speaks about, and I feel that if her goal was to educate others on the realities of the Holocaust, in addition to perpetuating the very impactful 'never forget' mantra, significant in keeping alive the memories of the millions affected by the Holocaust, then she was fully successful.- Ganessa Press What was so disturbing about this book is that it is a memory of a very ordinary family. The dad worked at a bank, the kids went to school and they all led a very normal life....Until the disruption and horror brought to Holland by the Third Reich. Even then, the family thought that they would be safe until they were sent to a temporary camp where they started having their dignity gradually stripped away. Minimal food, poor hygiene and constant orders from the SS soldiers. The temporary camp was bad enough but when the family was moved to Bergen-Belsen, they lost all vestiges of their earlier life. Once they were there, it was a daily struggle to stay alive. The author presented the horror of the camp in such a way that it was even more horrific. I am so glad that the book continued to the author's years after her time in Bergen-Belsen and we were truly able to see what a strong determined woman she is. Thank you, Nanette, for sharing your story and continuing to share it with future generations so that this never happens again. - Susan Robert of A Girls who Reads

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Nanette Blitz Konig was born on the 6th of April, 1929 in Amsterdam, Holland, daughter of Martijn Willem Blitz and Helene Victoria Davids. She had an older brother, Bernard Martijn born in 1927 and a younger brother, Willem, born in 1932 with a “blue baby” heart defect and died in 1936. She and her family were Jewish and her father worked for the Amsterdamsche Bank. Holland was occupied in May 1940 by the Nazis who began to persecute the Jews. In the beginning of 1941, Jewish students were obliged to go to Jewish schools and it was then that Nanette became a classmate of Anne Frank and remained so until the Franks went into hiding in 1942 The Blitz Family was arrested and taken to the transition camp of Westerbork. February 15, 1944 they were deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At the end of November, 1944 Nanette´s father died. In the beginning of December Nanette´s brother and mother were deported from Bergen-Belsen and she remained alone. Her brother died in the concentration camp of Oranienburg and her mother was deported to Beendorf to a factory in a salt mine as a slave laborer and died in April, 1945 in a train that was on the way to Sweden. In January 1945 Nanette was transferred to a different part of Bergen-Belsen known as the small women’s camp. From there she saw Anne Frank in the large women’s camp through the barbed wired fence. These two camps become one section and it was then that Nanette got together with Anne and her sister Margot. Nanette survived Bergen-Belsen and was rescued by a British Major, Leonard Berney. After the war she spent three years in hospital with tuberculosis. During this period Anne´s father come to visit and asked about his daughters. Later Otto Frank gave Nanette the diary written by his daughter Anne “Het Achterhuis” (The Secret Annex). After Nanette recovered she went to live in England with her Aunts, where she mets her husband, John Konig of Hungarian origin. In 1953 they married and moved to Brazil. Nanette gives lectures about the Holocaust and her life. In 2018 she published a book “Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank”, in which she gives a detailed account of her experiences during World War II.

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