The author of this best-selling Holocaust memoir, Nanette Blitz-Koenig (b. 1929), was a school friend of Anne Frank, whose famous diary chronicles the tragedy of the Jewish people during World War II. In the pages of her book, which describes in realistic, heartbreaking detail a person's every-second struggle for life in a Nazi concentration camp, Nannette tells the incredible story of survival in the Bergen-Belsen camp in northwestern Germany. There she met her classmate Anne Frank, whose meetings and communication with her in the concentration camp she still remembers in every detail. There were no gas chambers in Bergen-Belsen, but in 1943–1945 about 50 thousand prisoners died there, over 35 thousand of them died of typhus just short of their release. Among the dead were Anne Frank, her sister Margot and Nanette's entire family. She, who weighed only 32 kilograms, miraculously managed to survive...The publishing design is preserved in PDF A4 format.