Nanette Blitz Konig
Autor de Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor and Classmate of Anne Frank
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Obras de Nanette Blitz Konig
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Konig-Blitz, Nanette
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1929-04-06
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Netherlands
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Lugares de residencia
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - Ocupaciones
- public speaker
memoirist
Holocaust survivor - Biografía breve
- Nanette Blitz Konig was born to an affluent Jewish family in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, a daughter of Martijn Willem Blitz, director of the Amsterdam Bank, and his wife Helene Victoria Davids. She had an older brother, Bernard, and a younger brother, Willem, born with a heart defect, who died in 1936. In May 1940, Nazi Germany invaded and occupied The Netherlands, and at the beginning of 1941, Jewish students were forced to attend Jewish-only schools. At this time, Nanette became a classmate of Anne Frank. In 1943, the Blitz family was arrested and deported via the Westerbork transit camp to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Nanette's father died in November 1944. At the beginning of December, her mother and brother were deported to other camps and Nanette was alone. She later learned that Bernard died in the Oranienburg concentration camp, while Helene was sent to slave labor at the Beendorf salt mines; she was released in April 1945 but died on a train en route 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 her friend Anne through the barbed wire fence in the large women's camp. When these two sections were joined, Nanette was reunited with Anne and her sister Margot. Nanette survived to be liberated by British troops in April 1945. After the war, she spent three years in the hospital due to typhus, the disease that had killed Anne and Margot Frank in the camp. During this period, Anne's father visited Nanette to ask about his daughters. Later, he gave Nanette a printed copy of the diary written by Anne, first published in 1947 as Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex). After Nanette had recovered, she went to live in England, where she met her future husband, John Konig. In 1953, they married and moved to São Paulo, Brazil. Nanette gave lectures about the Holocaust and her life. In 2018, she published her memoir Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor and Classmate of Anne Frank. The book won the Readers' Favorite International Gold Medal Award in 2019.
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #413,653
- Valoración
- 4.8
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- ISBNs
- 5
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I remember reading the Diary of Anne Frank when I was a young girl. I have read many more books dealing with the holocaust as a teen as an adult, and what these innocent people were put through. To this day I will never understand how people can do what they do to other human beings. For Nanette to suffer the way she did and have to spend time alone in the concentration camp once her mother and brother were transferred elsewhere speaks volumes as to what kind of person she was. I was very happy that she was able to survive those deplorable conditions, though he had a long road to recovery once freed from Bergen-Belsen. For her to go on with her life, get married and have a family of her own was very nice to read about. I will continue reading books of this nature but I know I will never understand the cruelty these people endured.… (más)