Background
Meijer was born in Germany to a Jewish family in 1938.
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Before the World World War II, she lived on the same street in Amsterdam where Anne Frank attended a Montessori school.
Career
However, they were acquaintances before. They were caught by Nazis in early 1944 and deported from the Netherlands in March 1944. They were also both imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen at the same time.
Meijer published in 2010 her memoir entitled Life After Anne Frank.
The book includes her experience. lieutenant states that Frank sisters had told fairytales to her and other Dutch-speaking children while at Bergen-Belsen and that they, among others, sometimes took care of Dutch children while in the camp.
Frank had once attempted writing fairytales. These last two claims were supported by other Holocaust survivors, and the claim of Frank telling fairytales was neither proven nor disproven.
In addition to her memoir, Meijer was a culinary journalist who published columns in the Dutch newspaper National Research Council Handelsblad, as well as a cookbook.
Meijer died of cancer on 10 July 2012.
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Because the members of both families had fled Germany during the rise of Hitler"s regime and had begun to reside in the tightly-knit Jewish community in Amsterdam.
