Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper Quotes

All discrimination - whatever form it takes - is evil and that the world can go to pieces because of it.

All discrimination - whatever form it takes - is evil and that the world can go to pieces because of it.

Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper

Tags: discrimination, evil

If there's fighting to be done, you just to have to stand and fight. That has always been true. It was that way throughout the war. You have to be true to yourself- you can never be something you are...

Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper

If there's fighting to be done, you just to have to stand and fight. That has always been true. It was that way throughout the war. You have to be true to yourself- you can never be something you are...

Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper

Tags: authenticity, fight, fighting, true

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Marianne "Janny" (or "Jannie") Brandes-Brilleslijper (24 October 1916 – 15 August 2003) was a Dutch Holocaust survivor and one of the last people to see Anne Frank. She is the sister of singer Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 1912–1988). Both Brandes-Brilleslijper and Jaldati (nicknamed "Lientje") were in the Westerbork, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps with Anne and her older sister Margot Frank.