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Was Anne Frank denounced by a Jewish notary? This is the thesis of a new book

2022-01-17T17:12:26.753Z


Rosemary Sullivan believes that an anonymous letter sent after the war signs the betrayal of Arnold Van den Berghe who wanted to save his own family.


An investigation by a former FBI agent into the mystery surrounding who exposed teenager Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis has identified a Jewish notary public who allegedly did it to save his own family as the main suspect, according to a new book .

Arnold Van den Bergh may have revealed where the Frank family was hiding in Amsterdam in order to save his own family, according to an investigation into the unsolved court case that lasted more than six years, the results of which were detailed in the book

The Betrayal of Anne Frank

by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan.

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Allegations against Arnold Van den Bergh, who died in 1950, are supported by evidence there, including an anonymous letter sent to Anne Frank's father after World War II identifying the notary as a traitor, according to Dutch media reports. Monday.

The Anne Frank House museum told AFP that the results of the investigation, led by retired Federal Bureau of Investigation detective Vincent Pankoke, led to a '

fascinating hypothesis

' but required investigation .

further.

You have to be very careful about writing someone down in history as the one who betrayed Anne Frank if you're not 100 or 200% sure about that

Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam

The 15-year-old girl, known worldwide since the publication of her diary written between 1942 and 1944 while she and her family were hiding in a clandestine apartment in Amsterdam, was arrested in 1944 and died the following year in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Different theories have long circulated about the raid which revealed the secret annex where the family was hiding.

Van den Bergh's name had so far received little attention, but came to the fore during the investigation which used modern techniques, including artificial intelligence, to sift through massive amounts of data. The investigation narrowed the list of suspects to four, including Arnold Van den Bergh, a founding member of the Jewish Council, an administrative body the Nazis forced Jews to form to organize the deportations. Investigators found that her family had a deportation exemption, which had been revoked at the time of the Franks' betrayal but ultimately not deported, for unknown reasons.

Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House, warned that questions remained about the anonymous letter and that further investigation was needed.

"

You have to be very careful about writing someone down in history like the one who betrayed Anne Frank if you're not 100 or 200 per cent sure about that

," he told AFP. .

Source: lefigaro

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