Brandes-Brilleslijper, Janny (c. 1918–2003)

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Brandes-Brilleslijper, Janny (c. 1918–2003)

Dutch resistance leader. Name variations: Jannie. Born c. 1918; died Aug 13, 2004, in Amsterdam, Netherlands; children: 2.

The last person known to have seen Anne Frank alive, was a member of the Jewish resistance in occupied Netherlands; with Anne, was deported to Westerbork, then Auschwitz; while working as a nurse in Nazi camps, saw Anne in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few days before she died of typhus (spring 1945).

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