Jannie Brandes-Brilleslijper, 86; With Anne Frank in Final Days !

Jannie Brandes-Brilleslijper, the last person known to have seen Anne Frank alive and a member

of the Nazi resistance in the occupied Netherlands, died here on Aug. 15. She was 86.

The cause was heart failure, Mariette Huisjes, a spokesman for the Anne Frank House

foundation, said.

Ms. Brandes-Brilleslijper worked as a nurse in the Nazi camps, where she provided clothing,

medicine and food to fellow prisoners. She saw Anne Frank two or three days before her death

from typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the spring of 1945, at the age of 15.

She told Otto Frank, Anne's father, of his daughter's death after the war. He later edited and

published her famous diary, written in hiding.

Ms. Brandes-Brilleslijper was in the wartime Jewish resistance, forging identification papers to

help other Jews

escape the Nazis, before she and Anne Frank were deported out of Amsterdam. They both

survived stays in the Westerbork and Auschwitz camps.

In a compilation of her writing published on her 70th birthday, Ms. Brandes-Brilleslijper

described helping other Jews hide in Amsterdam, and meeting Anne and her family.

She also wrote of the horror of arriving at the Birkenau death camp and the constant stench of

burning bodies from the crematory.

''We traveled on an ordinary train,'' she wrote. ''The Frank family with two daughters was in

the same train and we met them later.

''We were stripped in an icy room with the wind billowing through it,'' she wrote. ''Five women

under one trickle of water. No towels. Tattooed, shaved . . . we were totally confused and unable

to understand anything.''

After the war, Ms. Brandes-Brilleslijper returned to Amsterdam, where she had grown up with

Jewish parents who ran a fish shop in the Jordaan district. She is survived by her two children.