Nicolas Carreau, edited by Solène Delinger 09:36, January 18, 2022
Who denounced Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis in 1944?
A book based on the investigation of a former FBI agent names a Jewish notary as the main suspect, who allegedly did it to save his own family.
His face has become infamous.
Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager, hid in the offices of her father's company with her family in Amsterdam to escape deportation during World War II.
After two years spent in this refuge, Anne and her family were arrested and then deported.
According to a new investigation, relayed in the book
Who betrayed Anne Frank?
, published today in France, it is a Jewish notary who would have betrayed them to save his own family.
The hiding place discovered in 1944
His story is famous.
He told it herself in his diary, known as the
Diary of Anne Frank,
in 1942. She hides in the offices of the Opekta company with her family to escape raids.
But in August 1944, the hiding place was discovered and Anne Frank was deported.
She will die in the Bergen-Belsen camp.
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Further investigation is 'necessary'
Until now, despite many theories, we did not know the name of the informant, the one who denounced them.
According to a former FBI agent, who conducted a six-year investigation, told in a book by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan, entitled
Who betrayed Anne Frank?,
and available today in France.
It would be a certain Arnold Van den Bergh, a Jewish notary who would have denounced the Franks to save his own family.
He died in 1950. The director of the Anne Frank House calls for caution.
And even if the hypothesis is interesting, he considers that further investigation is necessary.