Holocaust survivor - Berthe Meijer stands by the memory of Anne Frank
March 19th, 2010 - 9:26 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt ( 9 comments )
Amsterdam, Mar 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There are a number of skeptics who doubt Anne Frank’s story and her diaries, but she has found a new ally in the form of Holocaust survivor Berthe Meijer. She had met Anne Frank in a Nazi concentration camp, and she says that she would definitely stand by the memory of Anne Frank.
The 71-year-old Holocaust survivor says in a memoir that she vividly remembers the severely ill Anne frank trying to raise the spirits of other children in the camp, by reciting fairy tales to them. “On its face, it seems too good to be true,” according to David Barnouw of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. David has studied Anne Frank for over 30 years, and was also instrumental in editing the scholarly publication of her diary. He is very skeptical of all the anecdotes published in the diary, as he thinks that they are a figment of her imagination.
After Berthe Meijer’s claims that she vividly remembers Anne Frank, David Barnouw has become all the more suspicious of Anne Frank, as he says that it would be quite coincidental that Meijer also remembers Anne Frank, even though she attained cult-hood status decades later. “But you never know,” he said. “I don’t dare to judge.”
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March 19th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
I have read The Diary OF Ann Franks and regardless of what is fact or fiction therein,i found the book to be one of the best i’ve read.I normally read Steven King,Dean Koontz etc… i rate The Diary Of… with the best of them.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Anne Frank told fairy tales to children in concentration camp, says survivor in new memoir; BY Rosemary Black; March 18th 2010; DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER;
That is so sweet of her. Especially when you take into account that the official Nuremberg trials story of the Holocaust says that: The children taken into these “Death” camps as well as the women and the men were killed “Immediately”, within 30 minutes of arriving at the camps. Imagine how much more she could have accomplished, if she had more time. She wrote a book, told stores to other little children, and made a name for herself, all in 30 minutes! And all of this while she was having her hair cut, her arm tattooed, her skin turned into Jewish skin Lampshade,and her body fat turned into hand soap for The bad German ladies. My God she was such a hard worker; Ann Frank is my hero.
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:09 am
This woman was shipped directly to Bergen-Belsen, which was not a death camp. If she had been shipped to Auschwitz first (like the Frank) family, she would have been killed upon arrival, because Auschwitz was a death camp.
March 23rd, 2010 at 2:42 am
Jewish virtual library website says: “On August 4, 1944, the Secret Annex is raided by the Security Police. Anne Frank and the seven others in hiding are arrested. What follows are long journeys to concentration camps in Holland, Poland, and Germany. …The eight residents of the Secret Annex are transported to Auschwitz on the last train leaving the transit camp Westerbork. After a MONTH at Auschwitz, Anne Frank and her sister Margot are transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp”. My math is not so good, but I think that one month at Auschwitz is more than 30min. She, like most of the alleged Holocaust victims, went through many so called “Death” Camps, including Auschwitz. She eventually died of what many people in Germany were dieing of: war related diseases and ailments. Most people forget that there was a war on, in those days! Look up Nafcash and Onethirdoftheholocaust webpages.
March 25th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Your math may not be great, but your reading abysmal. You are mixing up Bertha Meijer with Anne Frank and hoping no one will notice. As you know and are hoping readers won’t notice, Bertha was five years old when she was shipped out. She was not shipped to Auschwitz at all. She was shipped directly to Bergen-Belsen. Anne Frank was much older than Berthe. Anne was fifteen years old when she was shipped to Auschwitz. She was not gassed because she was not child. Adults and near-adults were made to work and fed very little until they were so wasted away they were selected to be gassed (or sent on to another camp). To state the obvious, none of the concentration camps was some sort of refuge, as good as living elsewhere during the war. Anne would have survived the war just fine if she’d been allowed to live in peace in Amsterdam with her family. Her home, her school, were not bombed.
September 23rd, 2010 at 11:52 am
Anne Frank Story is true I know as I was there in Bergen Belsen and her barrack was only two barracks away from mine in Woman Camp No.2. The story of Berthe Meijers is not true as she was in the Sterncamp which was a part of Belsen. Berthe could never and I say NEVER have met up with Anne Frank as Berthe could not have left Sterncamp to go walkabout to Wonam Camp No.2 This could never have happen Each section in the big Camp had its own SS guards and guarded gates Bertha lied and connect only with Anne Frank to sell her book. I do not make this up there are still others alife who will backup my knowledge. To all those unbelievers the Holocaust did happen so wake up to facts.
October 22nd, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Wow. Hetty Verolme you are amazing. To have survived the Holocaust is just amazing. And it’s interesting that you knew about Anne Frank as she was in the Same camp as you. Hetty you are an idol. :)
October 23rd, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Thank you Nikola if you like to know more please read my book’The Childrens House of Belsen’ you than may understand what happened there and that a Polish woman Luba Tryszynska saved the live of 40 children. It was the only Group which survived the concentration camps.She was honoured with a Silver Medal for Huminitarian services from Queen Beatrix of the Nehterland in 1995.
October 26th, 2010 at 10:49 am
Ok thanks :) If you get this, I am actually a member of the class that you will be visiting at Kolbe College.