Who betrayed Anne Frank to the Nazis?

The team of 30 experts now believes after five years of research, that it has discovered who handed Anne Frank and her family over to the Gestapo in August 1944. According to Dutch media, it is thought that the Jewish-holandes swimmer Arnold van den Bergh has given German invaders a list of where Jews in Amsterdam were hiding to save his family's lives. Among them was the address of the secret residence in Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, where Anna Frank was hiding.

An anonymous letter of important information

The main evidence is the copy of an anonymous letter that Anna's father, Otto Frank, received in 1946. It included Arnold van den Bergh, who was a member of the Hebrew Council and had many contacts.

Ana Frank's journal

First, he was protected from exile, but in 1944 they ceased to function, and that is why he is said to have betrayed places where some Jewish families were hiding in the hope that he could save his wife, three daughters, and himself.

A probability of more than 85 percent

According to former FBI investigators, Vince Pankoke, who played a key role in the research in question 77 years after the end of the war cannot have absolute security. But our theory has a probability of more than 85 percent,” he said in an interview for Deutschlandfunk. The purpose of the investigation was, not to press charges against someone, but to clarify the historical mystery of who handed it to the Gestapo to the Frank family.