Nanette Blitz Konig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1929
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Nanette Blitz Konig
- Nanette Konig-Blitz (born 1929) is a Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivor and former classmate of Anne Frank.
- She has lived in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil since 1953.
- In 2015, she published a book about being a Belsen survivor called Eu Sobrevivi ao Holocausto.
- On Holocaust Memorial Day 26 January 2018, Nanette's book was published in English with the title Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne FrankNanette was born on 6 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, who was born in 1932 with a “blue baby” heart defect and died in 1936.
- The family was of Jewish origin and her father worked for the Amsterdamsche Bank.
- Holland was occupied in May 1940 by the Nazis.
- At the beginning of 1941, Jewish students were assigned to Jewish designated schools; it was then that Nanette became a classmate of Anne Frank. The Blitz Family was arrested and taken to Westerbork transition camp.
- On 15 February 1944, they were deported to Bergen Belsen concentration camp.At the end of November 1944 Nanette's father died.
- At the beginning of December, Nanette's brother and mother were deported from Bergen-Belsen and she remained alone.
- Her brother died in Oranienburg concentration camp and her mother was deported to Beendorf salt mines as a slave labourer and died in April 1945 in a train that was on the way to Sweden. In January 1945, Nanette was transferred to a 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 was reunited with Anne and her sister Margot. I was all alone in the camp, so being reunited with someone I knew was something that made me unforgettably emotional, because love and friendship were our only means of hope amid chaos.
- One day, as I was walking outside the barrack area, I got closer to the barbed-wire fence that prevented me from having access to other parts of the camp.
- On the other side of the fence, I saw a face that looked familiar.
- It was Anne Frank! Anne looked as frail as I did.
- I still had my hair, but hers had been shaved.
- I only caught a glimpse of her, since we were in different camps and I could not get any closer.
- However, that was enough to motivate me, to want to see her and talk to her.
- We would certainly have a lot to share.
- --From: Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor - Classmate of Anne Frank by Nanette Blitz KonigNanette survived Bergen-Belsen and was rescued by the British Major Leonard Berney.
- After the war, she spent three years in hospital due to typhus, the disease which killed Margot and Anne Frank.
- During this period, Anne's father visited her to ask about his daughters.
- Later, Otto Frank gave Nanette the diary written by his daughter Anne, Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex).
- After Nanette had recovered, she went to live in England where she met her husband, John Konig who was of Hungarian origin.
- In 1953, they married and moved to Brazil.
- Nanette gave lectures about the Holocaust and her life.
- In 2018 Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor - Classmate of Anne Frank by Nanette Blitz Konig was published by Amsterdam Publishers: it gave a detailed account of her experiences during World War II.
- The book won the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award in 2019.
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