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   From: jews_lie_albasani_mozzarella_neodome@freedyn.de   
      
   A Jewish notary has been named by a cold case team led by a former   
   FBI agent as the prime suspect for the betrayal of Anne Frank and   
   her family to the Nazis.   
      
   Arnold van den Bergh, who died in 1950, has been accused on the   
   basis of six years of research and an anonymous note received by   
   Anne’s father, Otto Frank, after his return to Amsterdam at the end   
   of the war.   
      
   The note claims Van den Bergh, a member of a Jewish council, an   
   administrative body the Germans forced Jews to establish, had given   
   away the Frank family’s hiding place along with other addresses used   
   by those in hiding.   
      
   He had been motivated by fears for his life and that of his family,   
   it is suggested in a CBS documentary and accompanying book, The   
   Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan, based on research   
   gathered by the retired FBI detective Vince Pankoke and his team.   
      
   Pankoke learned that Van den Bergh had managed to have himself   
   categorised as a non-Jew initially but was then redesignated as   
   being Jewish after a business dispute.   
      
   It is suggested that Van den Bergh, who acted as notary in the   
   forced sale of works of art to prominent Nazis such as Hermann   
   Göring, used addresses of hiding places as a form of life insurance   
   for his family. Neither he nor his daughter were deported to the   
   Nazi camps.   
      
   Anne Frank hid for two years in a concealed annexe above a canalside   
   warehouse in the Jordaan area of Amsterdam before being discovered   
   on 4 August 1944, along with her father, mother, Edith, and sister,   
   Margot.   
      
   Photographs of Anne Frank taken in a department store booth.   
   Read more   
   The young diarist was sent to Westerbork transit camp, and on to   
   Auschwitz concentration camp before finally ending up in Bergen-   
   Belsen, where she died in February 1945 at the age of 15, possibly   
   from typhus. Her published diary spans the period in hiding between   
   1942 and her last entry on 1 August 1944.   
      
   Despite a series of investigations, the mystery of who led the Nazis   
   to the annex remains unsolved. Otto Frank, who died in 1980, was   
   thought to have a strong suspicion of that person’s identity but he   
   never divulged it in public.   
      
   Several years after the war, he had told the journalist Friso Endt   
   that the family had been betrayed by someone in the Jewish   
   community. The cold case team discovered that Miep Gies, one of   
   those who helped get the family into the annexe, had also let slip   
   during a lecture in America in 1994 that the person who betrayed   
   them had died by 1960.   
      
   There were two police investigations, in 1947 and 1963, into the   
   circumstances surrounding the betrayal of the Franks. The son of the   
   detective, Arend van Helden, who led the second inquiry, provided a   
   typewritten copy of the anonymous note to the cold case reviewers.   
      
      
   “The anonymous note did not identify Otto Frank. It said ‘your   
   address was betrayed’. So, in fact, what had happened was Van den   
   Bergh was able to get a number of addresses of Jews in hiding. And   
   it was those addresses with no names attached and no guarantee that   
   the Jews were still hiding at those addresses. That’s what he gave   
   over to save his skin, if you want, but to save himself and his   
   family. Personally, I think he is a tragic figure.”   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/17/anne-frank-betrayed-   
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