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Anne frank hide out9/20/2023 ![]() The Prinsengracht 263 was given as one of the multiple addresses that were on the list. SULLIVAN: Yes, but it's not as stark as that. I mean, if this is true, if it was him, it would mean Anne Frank and her family were betrayed by a fellow Jew. KELLY: Well - and just to just to dwell on that one detail, he was Jewish. So he had dealings, as it were, with Nazis, but he was also a complicated man because his children - he gave his children to the resistance to find hiding places for them. He had a friend, Miedl, who was a naturalized Dutch banker but of German extraction, who clearly was also an intelligence officer for the Nazis. It doesn't mean that he approved or whatever, but he was in the position of acting as notary when Goering robbed, in effect, by paying so little Goudstikker of his collection. It meant that he was working with - or an intermediary with Nazis. And in that process, he became the notary of the famous Goudstikker collection. He collected 17th- and 18th-century Dutch masters, indicating, of course, considerable wealth. SULLIVAN: Arnold van den Bergh was a notary in Amsterdam, in the '30s and into the '40s - one of six Jewish notaries in Amsterdam, very respected. KELLY: Let me focus on the name that you've just given us - Arnold van den Bergh. And from one thing leading to another, it seemed to be clear that the person, Arnold van den Bergh, did give addresses - not names, but addresses of places where Jews were in hiding. This note, which was proved to be the authentic copy made from Otto Frank's typewriter, had to be tracked down. And the note said your address was betrayed to the SD by Arnold van den Bergh. And in that report, he mentions the existence of an anonymous note Anne's father, Otto Frank, gave him after he returned from Auschwitz, the only survivor of his entire family. ![]() In 1963, a detective Van Helden did a much more thorough investigation and left behind 120 pages of his - a 120-page report. SULLIVAN: The breakthrough was, in 1948, there was a police investigation that led nowhere. They began with 30 scenarios and then were able to come up with about 12 convincing cases of possible suspects. They had young historians who collected material from - everything from the CABR files, which are extraordinary files in The Hague that have something like 450,000 dossiers, searching archives throughout the world, putting them in artificial intelligence. They went to a data company called Xomnia who created a platform to collect information. SULLIVAN: Well, Vince went to Amsterdam to live for a year. KELLY: So walk me through how they did it. SULLIVAN: That's an FBI officer's mind, right? He - it was a combination of historical research and artificial intelligence platforms that allowed him to make connections that weren't made before. KELLY: Now, what made Vince Pankoke think that, as you said, 77 years later, he could figure this out? And so then they decided to have an outsider lead the investigation and invited the retired FBI special officer Vince Pankoke to come to Holland and lead the investigation. And the two of them in discussion realized that somehow answering this question, which had gone unanswered for 77 years - who betrayed Anne Frank? - would be a route to understanding the horror and failures in Amsterdam at the time of the occupation. SULLIVAN: It began with a man called Thijs Bayens, who is a filmmaker, and his colleague Pieter van Twisk, who's a journalist. But first, just - how did this cold case investigation come about? KELLY: I want to talk through the specifics of what investigators learned. ![]() Author Rosemary Sullivan chronicles the search in her new book, "The Betrayal Of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation." Welcome. Now, a new investigation has identified a suspect. The identity of the person or persons who betrayed the Frank family has always been a mystery. The diary ends on that summer Tuesday because someone alerted authorities that Anne, her family and four other adults were hiding in the annex of a pectin and spice warehouse in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. It details, in her own words, the life of a teenage girl and illustrates the fear and horror endured by Jews during the Holocaust. The diary has been in publication since 1947. Tuesday, August 1, 1944, dearest Kitty - so begins the final entry in Anne Frank's diary. ![]()
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