According to “Who betrayed Anne Frank?”, To be published on January 19, Arnold Van den Bergh have denounced the Frank family in the hope of saving his. Anne Frank House-judge “the fascinating hypothesis” but requires further research.
Le Monde with AFP
It may be the end of nearly eighty years of questions. After six years of investigation into this court case unsolved, the mystery surrounding the termination of Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis could have been solved.
This is Arnold Van den Bergh, a Jewish lawyer, who had betrayed the Frank family to save his, according to Rosemary Sullivan, Canadian author of a new book entitled Who betrayed Anne Frank? (HarperCollins, forthcoming January 19). A documentary on CBS accompanies the publication.
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The allegations against Mr Van den Bergh, who died in 1950, are supported by evidence, including an anonymous letter to Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, after the Second World War, identifying the notary as a traitor , according to published elements in the Dutch media Monday, January 17th.
The Anne Frank House, the museum dedicated to the girl, told Agence France-Presse that the results of the survey, conducted by Vincent Pankoke, an FBI agent retired, led to a “intriguing hypothesis” but they require further research. In 2016, Vincent Pankoke had been contacted by the Dutch filmmaker and journalist Thijs Buyens Pieter van Twisk to participate in an investigation to unravel the mystery surrounding the termination of Anne Frank and her family.
The family of Anne Frank had fled Germany in 1933 for the Netherlands. The 15 year old girl, known around the world since the publication of her diary written between 1942 and 1944 while in hiding with her family in a secret apartment in Amsterdam, was arrested Aug. 4, 1944. deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, she died between February and March 1945, after being transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Use artificial intelligence
Different theories have long circulated on the raid that revealed the secret annex where the family was hiding. The name of Van den Bergh had hitherto held little attention, but was uncovered during the investigation, which used modern techniques including artificial intelligence, to analyze a large volume data.
The survey has reduced the list of suspects to four, with Van den Bergh, a founding member of the Jewish Council, an administrative body created by Jews, under pressure from the Nazis to organize deportations.
The investigators found that the family notary enjoyed a deportation waiver. She had been revoked at the time of the betrayal of Frank, but the deportation of Van den Bergh family had finally taken place, for reasons that remain unknown.
Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House, warned that questions remained about the anonymous letter and that further investigation was needed. “You must be very careful before entering someone in history as the one who betrayed Anne Frank if you are not 100 or 200% of this,” he told AFP .