- Daughter of Helene Victoria Blitz-Davids and Martijn Willem Blitz.
- Was a classmate and a friend of Anne Frank.
- Sister of Willem Blitz and Bernard Martijn Blitz.
- At the end of November, 1944 Nanette's father dies. At the beginning of December, Nanette's brother and mother are deported from Bergen Belsen and she remains alone. Her brother dies in the concentration camp of Oranienburg and her mother is deported to Beendorf salt mines as a slave labourer and dies in April, 1945 in a train that was on the way to Sweden.
- In January, 1945 Nanette is transferred to a different part of Bergen Belsen known as the small women's camp. From there she sees Anne Frank in the large women's camp through the barbed wired fence. These two camps become one section and it is then that Nanette gets together with Anne and her sister Margot.
- Mrs Blitz Konig has lived in Brazil since 1953 and has three children, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren - she accredits Major Leonard Berney for the reason she survived the horrors of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Anne Frank died in the camp in March 1945, just before its liberation on 15 April.
- Nanette survives Bergen-Belsen and is rescued by the British Major Leonard Berney. After the war, she spends three years in hospital with typhus which killed Anne Frank. During this period, Anne's father comes to visit and asks about his daughters. Later, Otto Frank gives Nanette the diary written by his daughter Anne "Het Achterhuis" (The Secret Annex). After Nanette recovers, she goes to live in England where she meets her husband, John Konig of Hungarian origin. In 1953, they marry and move to Brazil. Nanette gives lectures about the Holocaust and her life. In 2015 she publishes a book "Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor - Classmate of Anne Frank" where she gives a detailed account of her experiences during World War II.
- Mother of Martin Kong, Judith Kong and Elizabeth Kong.
- Has Dutch on her father's side and South African on her mother's side.
- Grandmother of Helene Kahn and Frederick Kahn.
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