Camp memory of Anne Frank

Washington - A now 100-year-old woman was one of the last people to see the Dutch Holocaust victim Anne Frank alive in the Bergen…

Washington - A now 100-year-old woman was one of the last people to see the Dutch Holocaust victim Anne Frank alive in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Newsweek magazine has reported. Newsweek says Frank, who recorded in a now famous diary the three years her family spent hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, caught typhus in a camp barracks supervised by Ms Irma Sonnenberg Menkel, who has given an interview to today's issue of the magazine. - (AFP)

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