Anne Frank, the teenage Holocaust sufferer whose posthumously printed diary gave the world a glimpse of what it was like to cover from Nazi persecution, could have been betrayed by a outstanding Jewish businessman, based on a chilly case-style investigation outlined in a brand new guide, "The Betrayal of Anne Frank A Cold Case Investigation," by Rosemary Sullivan.
The guide, which describes an investigation led by former FBI agent Vincent Panoke, is scheduled for release Tuesday.
Anne spent two years hiding in a secret annex in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazis broke in and carted off Anne’s household and 4 different Jewish folks hiding there to focus camps.
FILE- Journalist takes photographs of images of Anne Frank on the renovated Anne Frank Home Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. A chilly case workforce that combed by way of proof for 5 years could have solved one among World Struggle II's enduring mysteries: Who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her household ? Their reply, outlined in a brand new guide, is that it most probably was a Jewish lawyer known as Arnold van den Bergh. (AP Photograph/Peter Dejong, File)
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Solely Otto Frank, Anne’s father, survived. After the conflict, he recovered his daughter’s diary and had it printed in 1947.
Pankoke and his investigators reexamined the World Struggle II-era case with fashionable methods and know-how -- singling out Arnold van den Bergh, a outstanding Jewish notary in Amsterdam, because the "most likely" betrayer of the Frank household. He could have performed it as a way to spare his personal from deportation to a focus camp.
"We have investigated over 30 suspects in 20 different scenarios, leaving one scenario we like to refer to as the most likely scenario," filmmaker Thijs Bayens informed the Related Press Monday.
FILE PHOTO: A view of the outside of the home the place Anne Frank lived in Amsterdam November 21, 2007. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen (NETHERLANDS)/File Photograph
"There is no smoking gun because betrayal is circumstantial," stated Bayens, who got here up with the thought for the investigation.
Nevertheless, a long-lost nameless tip despatched to Otto Frank after the conflict fingered van den Bergh because the informant who informed the Nazis concerning the hideout. The investigative workforce rediscovered it throughout an AI-assisted overview of previous paperwork. The suspected informant himself died in 1950.
In a press release, the Anne Frank House, a nonprofit that runs a museum within the constructing the place the Franks had been hiding, stated it had no involvement within the investigation however allowed the workforce to overview its archives and museum – in addition to its personal investigation into the matter from 2016, which regarded into different potential causes for the Nazi raid.
FILE- A lady enters the key annex on the renovated Anne Frank Home Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. A chilly case workforce that combed by way of proof for 5 years could have solved one among World Struggle II's enduring mysteries: Who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her household ? Their reply, outlined in a brand new guide, is that it most probably was a Jewish lawyer known as Arnold van den Bergh. (AP Photograph/Peter Dejong, File)
"At the Anne Frank House we aim to tell the life story of Anne Frank as fully as possible, so it’s important to also examine the arrest of Anne Frank and the seven other people in the Secret Annex in as much detail as possible," stated the group’s govt director Ronald Leopold. "The cold case team’s investigation has generated important new information and a fascinating hypothesis that merit further research."
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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