Mirjam Finkelstein, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Mirjam Finkelstein

Holocaust survivor and educator

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1933

Date of Death: 28-Jan-2017

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Mirjam Finkelstein (June 10, 1933 – January 28, 2017) was a Holocaust survivor and educator.
Born in Berlin, Germany to Dr.
Alfred Wiener, a Jewish activist and founder of the Wiener Library, she moved to Amsterdam to find safety during World War II.
There she grew up in the same community as Anne Frank and they knew each other as children.In June 1943, however, Finkelstein was taken by the Nazis along with her mother and sisters to Westerbork transit camp and then to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
She was one of the eye witnesses to the fact that Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were in Bergen-Belsen.
When she saw them arrive in the camp she took out a forbidden pocket diary and wrote a note about their arrival, which became important evidence after the war for Anne Frank's whereabouts.
Mirjam's father, who had managed to get to London in 1939, obtained fake Paraguayan passports for his family and she was included as part of a prisoner exchange at the Swiss border in January 1945.Finkelstein settled in London, England and married Ludwik Finkelstein.
They had three children: Daniel Finkelstein, Anthony Finkelstein, and Tamara Finkelstein.
She spent years visiting schools to talk about her experiences during the Holocaust.
In 2016 she was photographed for the book Survivor.