AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A six-year chilly case investigation into the betrayal of Anne Frank has recognized a stunning suspect in the loss of life of the well-known diarist, who was found in her canal facet hideout and died in a Nazi focus camp in 1945.
A comparatively unknown determine, Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh, has been named by a staff that included retired U.S. FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and round 20 historians, criminologists and knowledge specialists.
More than 75 years after Nazis stormed the annex in Amsterdam, researchers concluded it was “very possible” Van den Bergh gave the Frank household up in order to save his family, analysis staff member Pieter van Twisk instructed the day by day NRC newspaper on Monday.
Anne was found on Aug. 4, 1944, after two years in hiding. Miep Gies, one of many household’s helpers, saved Anne’s diary protected till it was revealed by Anne’s father, Otto, in 1947, two years after Anne died in the Bergen Belsen camp at age 15. Captivating the creativeness of tens of millions of readers worldwide, it has been translated into 60 languages.
The try to establish the betrayer was not meant to lead to prosecution, however to remedy one of many greatest unsolved mysteries in the Netherlands of World War Two.
Using Big Data analysis methods, a grasp database was compiled with lists of Nazi collaborators, informants, historic paperwork, police data and prior analysis to uncover new leads.
Dozens of situations and areas of suspects have been visualised on a map to establish a betrayer, primarily based on data of the hiding place, motive and alternative.
The findings of the brand new analysis can be revealed in a ebook by Canadian writer Rosemary Sullivan, “The Betrayal of Anne Frank”, which can be launched on Tuesday.
Dozens of suspects had been named in previous many years, however by no means earlier than had fashionable investigative methods been utilized so extensively to establish a suspect.
(Reporting by Anthony Deutsch; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
