Suspect who betrayed Anne Frank to the Nazis recognized after 77 years

17/01/2022

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Anne Frank, who passed away aged 15 in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, was most likely betrayed by business person Arnold van den Bergh (Picture: Anne Frank House/ Getty/ CBS)

Anne Frank was ‘very likely’ betrayed by a Jewish business person who was attempting to ‘save his own family’, a cold case examination has actually concluded.

A group of specialists, consisting of a previous FBI representative, looked once again at the awful case utilizing modern-day methods in an effort to discover what occurred to the diarist and her household.

They have actually called Arnold van den Bergh as the prime suspect, although confessed that the proof versus him was mainly circumstantial.

For 75 years the secret of who betrayed the Franks has actually been among the most significant unanswered concerns of the 20 th century.

The household concealed for 2 years in an canal-side Amsterdam annex prior to being discovered in 1944 by Nazi officers and sent out to prisoner-of-war camp, where all however Anne’s dad, Otto, passed away.

After he released his 15- year-old child’s journal in 1947 to around the world praise, Otto committed much of the rest of his life to discovering how they had actually been found.

The group behind the 6 year examination hypothesized he likely learnt about Van den Bergh after getting a tip-off however chose not to go public.

Until now a fairly unidentified figure, the business person belonged to the Jewish Council, established by the Nazis in Amsterdam to function as intermediaries in between the routine and the Jewish neighborhood.

Passport photo Anne Frank, May 1942. Public Domain Work. CREDIT Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. — Anne Frank’s journal, released posthumously, has actually read worldwide (Picture: Anne Frank House)

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As private investigators went into the concern of who might have betrayed Anne Frank â $ s household to the Nazis, they started to concentrate on a suspect who was Jewish and, they state, most likely utilized the details to conserve himself, his better half, and kids from the genocide. https://t.co/Okgmh9LOOK pic.twitter.com/OiXCoOWsin
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Investigators discovered records in the Dutch archive that showed somebody on the council, which was liquified in 1943, had actually turned over names and addresses of Jewish individuals in hiding.

In return it is believed the individual and their household were rewarded by being stayed out of the prisoner-of-war camp.

Vince Pankoke, the retired FBI investigator who dealt with the examination, discovered that no members of Van der Bergh’s household were ever tape-recorded as passing away in any of the camps.

However they might not state for sure whether Van der Bergh, who passed away in London in 1950, was unconditionally to blame regardless of sorting through a big database of historic files.