Dutch Jewish author Berthe Meijer, whose life intersected with Anne Frank's, has died. She was 74. ...
Before the war, Meijer lived on the same Amsterdam street in a Jewish neighborhood where Frank attended a Montessori school. Their families both attempted to hide during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, but were caught and deported. They were imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen at the same time, though Meijer was years younger. ...
In 2010, Meijer published a memoir titled "Life After Anne Frank," with the intention of comparing her own post-war fortunes as perhaps resembling what might have happened to Frank, had she lived. ...
For better or worse, Meijer's decision to compare herself to Frank -- whose diary has become the most-read document to emerge from the Holocaust -- overshadowed the rest of Meijer's memoir, at least initially. Meijer endured withering skepticism over a claim in the book that Frank entertained her and other Dutch-speaking children with fairytales while in the camp.
However, key parts of her story held up to scrutiny...
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