Berthe meijer biography summary

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 to Bergen-Belsen at the same time, The Associated Press AP reported. While Frank was killed just two weeks before the liberation of the camp in , Meijer managed to survive.

While Meijer became a successful writer, her emotional scars never healed.

Berthe Meijer (21 April – 10 July ) was a Holocaust survivor and author.

She said, though, that she was determined to make something of herself. She later became a columnist for the NRC Handelsblad newspaper, and a collection of her recipes were published as a popular cookbook in the s. Then she met Goldschneider, a mercurial American-born author and musician, in and they remained together in relative happiness, he said Wednesday.

In a interview, she said that one of her primary requirements in a house was that it have good escape routes and hiding places. Meijer said that she had hoped that writing her book might show people with past traumas that others had experienced similar hardships, noted the AP. While she decided to write her book after a visit to Bergen-Belsen, she became skeptical about the therapeutic nature of writing.

Berthe grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Amsterdam, on the same street where Anne Frank went to school.

She is survived by Goldschneider, a sister, a son and two grandchildren. Updated: Invalid Date. Anne Frank's house Israel news photo: Flash Found a mistake? Contact us.