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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.
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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
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133:). After Nanette had recovered, she went to live in England where she met her future 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.
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Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank
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Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account
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