Cold case team believes it has solved the mystery of who may have betrayed Anne Frank

[riversedge]

I have added this book to my list of must reads.





Cold case team believes it has solved the mystery of who may have betrayed Anne Frank
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1073618330/anne-frank-cold-case-investigation



January 17, 202212:17 PM ET

The Associated Press

Journalist takes images of pictures of Anne Frank at the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018.
Peter Dejong/AP

AMSTERDAM — A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War II's enduring mysteries has reached what it calls the "most likely scenario" of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.

Their answer, outlined in a new book called "The Betrayal of Anne Frank A Cold Case Investigation," by Canadian academic and author Rosemary Sullivan, is that it could have been a prominent Jewish notary called Arnold van den Bergh, who disclosed the secret annex hiding place of the Frank family to German occupiers to save his own family from deportation and murder in Nazi concentration camps.

"We have investigated over 30 suspects in 20 different scenarios, leaving one scenario we like to refer to as the most likely scenario," said film maker Thijs Bayens, who had the idea to put together the cold case team, that was led by retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke, to forensically examine the evidence.

Bayens was quick to add that, "we don't have 100% certainty."..............................................

[Aristus]

1. That somehow makes the whole betrayal worse.

It may not have been some opportunistic Gentile, or a Nazi-sympathizer, but a Jewish person, under threat, giving up a family in hiding to save himself and his own.

God damn anyone who denies the horrors of the Holocaust.