Jimu news reporter Hu Li
Anne Frank, the author of The Diary of Anne Frank, was only 15 years old when she was killed by the Nazis. Published after her death, her diary is a first-hand account of Jewish life during World War II. Originally, The anne's family was killed because they were betrayed by insiders. Now, after 6 years, an investigation team has finally found someone who betrayed their family.
Anne Frank's diary, written while hiding from nazi poisoning, was widely read more than 70 years after her death. Image source: BBC
According to the BBC reported on January 18, a new investigation identified a suspect who may have been the one who betrayed the Anne Frank family to the Nazis. As a result of his betrayal, Anne died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945 at the age of 15 after two years in hiding.
Anne Frank died of typhus at the age of 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Image source: BBC
According to British media, the suspect, also Jewish, is from amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, and is named Arnold van den Bergh.
Van den Berg was a member of the Amsterdam Jewish Council, which was forced to implement Nazi policies in the Jewish quarters, which was dissolved in 1943.
The committee found that Van den Berg was not sent to the Nazi camp that year, but was living in Amsterdam as usual. Another theory is that Van Den Berg had been providing information to the Nazis about the Jews.
Former FBI agent Vince Pancock said: "Van Den Berg had to provide the Nazis with something of value to keep him and his wife safe. ”
The team said they also did not want to acknowledge the fact that traitors had appeared among Jews, but evidence suggested that Anne's father, Otto Frank, might have known that Van Den Burg had betrayed him, though Otto Frank still chose to keep it secret. In the files of a former investigator, they found a copy of an anonymous letter sent to Otto Frank stating that Arnold Van Den Berg was a betrayer of the Anne family.
According to Dutch media, Van Den Berg died in 1950.