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Article: I Saw Anne Frank die. (survivor of a Nazi concentration camp)
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- Newsweek
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- July 21, 1997
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At the age of 100, remembering the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
I turned 100 years old in April and had a beautiful birthday party surrounded by my grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other family members. I even danced a little. Willard Scott mentioned my name on television. But such a time is also for reflection. I decided to overcome my long reluctance to revisit terrible times. Older people must tell their stories. With the help of Jonathan Alter of NEWSWEEK, here's a bit of mine:
I was born in Germany in 1897, got married and had two children in the 1920s. Then Hitler came to power, and like many other Jews, we fled to ...