Nanette Blitz Konig

Nanette Blitz Konig (born 6 April 1929) is a Dutch survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and former classmate of Anne Frank in Amsterdam. She has lived in São Paulo, Brazil since 1953. In 2015, she published a book about being a Belsen survivor called Eu Sobrevivi ao Holocausto. On Holocaust Memorial Day 26 January 2018, Nanette's book was published in English with the title Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank.

Biography Blitz was born on 6 April 1929 in Amsterdam, to Martijn Willem Blitz, a worker at the Amsterdam Bank, and Helene Victoria Davids, who were of Jewish origin.

The Blitz family was arrested and taken to the Westerbork transit camp in September 1943.

Martijn died in late November 1944. At the beginning of December 1944, Bernard and Helene were deported from Bergen-Belsen and Nanette remained alone. Bernard died in the Oranienburg concentration camp, while Helene was deported to the Beendorf salt mines as a slave labourer; she died in April 1945 on a train en route to Sweden.

Nanette survived Bergen-Belsen and was rescued by the British Major Leonard Berney. After the war, she spent three years in hospital due to typhus, the disease which killed Margot and Anne Frank. During this period, Anne's father visited her to ask about his daughters. Later, Otto Frank gave Nanette the diary written by his daughter Anne, Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex). 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.

In 2018, her memoir Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank, a detailed account of her experiences during World War II, was published by Amsterdam Publishers. The book won the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award in 2019.

Following the death of Jacqueline van Maarsen in February 2025 and Eva Schloss in January 2026, she is one of the last living people to have known Anne Frank. She is also the last living person who saw Frank closest to her death.