Who is Marion Blumenthal Lazan from Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story and what is their importance?

Four Perfect Pebbles is Marion Blumenthal Lazan's memoir of life in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II where she and her family were placed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp along with tens of thousands of other Jews and racial and ethnic minorities. Marion was only a child at the time and spent all of ages nine and ten in Bergen-Belsen. Marion has compared her story to that of Anne Frank's had Frank lived. Frank and Marion both lived in Westerbork in Holland for some time and while Marion survived, Frank died of Typhus in 1945 just like Walter, Marion's father.