The investigation into Anne Frank’s betrayal is of no use, says the director of the Switzerland-based Anne Frank Fund. “There are factual inaccuracies on almost every page.” In a book published last week, researchers state that she was probably betrayed by the Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh.
“We had hoped for serious, fact-based investigations,” a disappointed fund chairman John D. Goldsmith told Swiss newspaper Blick. According to him, no scientific evidence has been provided in the ‘commercial’ research. Earlier, historians had already expressed doubts about the research methods and results. Goldsmith finds it disturbing that internationally, that ‘a Jew has been betrayed by a Jew’. According to him, the conclusion borders on a conspiracy theory.
An international team spent more than five years investigating the question of who told the Nazis in 1944 that Anne Frank had gone into hiding with others in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, where she wrote her famous diary. The notary would be guilty of the treason, he would have wanted to save his family from deportation.
Anonymous note
An anonymous note with his name on it, found in a police investigation from the 1960s, is proof of this, according to a cold case team. This is in the book Anne Frank’s Betrayal by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan. The name of the notary is not new. The man was already on a list of possible traitors.
The Anne Frank Fund manages the rights to her diary and uses the income, among other things, for educational projects. The director of the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands called the investigation ‘very good and careful’, but in his opinion important elements are missing and further research is needed.
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