The notary Arnold van den Bergh, a member of the Jewish and Collaborative Council, would have delivered the Frank Family to the Nazis and the other occupants of the Cache of the Annex, to Amsterdam, concludes the investigation of thirty experts conducted since 2015.
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Six years of a “Cold Case” way and, at the end of the way, a discovery that will put an end to a question that tales the Dutch society since the end of the Second World War: which delivered to the Nazis Anne Frank and other occupants in the annex, Amsterdam?
A group of thirty experts – criminologists, psychologists, historians, expertise specialists, graphologists – led by a Dutch investigator and a former FBI agent brings the answer in a book written by a Canadian laurer, Rosemary Sullivan . The Betrayal of Anne Frank – to appear on January 19 in French at Harper Collins, under the title who betrayed Anne Frank? (420 pages, 19 euros) – designates Arnold van den Bergh, a notary.
Member of the Jewish Council, which had been installed in the Netherlands by the German occupier in order to apply its instructions and register the Community, Arnold van den Bergh, death in 1950, appeared for a long time on a list with dozens names. Those suspected of having denounced the Frank family and the other occupants of the PrinSengracht cache, terré for two years until their arrest, on 4 August 1944. All were going to die in deportation except Otto Frank, the father of Anne . The girl had to die of typhus in Bergen-Belsen.
over time, unjustly accused people
In particular, the notary van den Bergh had worked with the acquisition by Hermann Göring, Hitler’s right arm and detailing art, the prestigious collection of the Jewish merchant Jacques Goudsikker, who had fled the country. With a special authorization, protected from deportation, the notary had obtained the right to no longer be considered Jewish. And he had access via the Jewish Council to a secret list of hidden people.
These indices, however, did not allow it to incriminate it. Until a filmmaker, Thijs Bayens, and his intensive friend Pieter Van Twisk have the idea, in 2015, to start from zero all the work of investigation, with the help of Vince Pankoke, an American officer retired who fought the Colombian drugs of the drug.
Without convinced, many authors had, over time, advanced the names of the authors of the denunciation, sometimes impairing people who had, in fact, helped Frank. Of which Miep Gies, a secretary who saved Anne’s manuscript, since one of the best-selling books in the world, translated into more than 70 languages.
A letter received by Otto Frank after liberation
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