Cold-case investigation leads to surprise suspect in Anne Frank's betrayal

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Arnold Vandenburg has been named by a team that included FBI agents, historians, criminologists and data specialists. Researchers concluded it was very likely Vandenberg gave the frank family up in order to save his own family. Dozens of suspects had been named in past decades, but never before had modern investigative techniques been applied so extensively.

4 months ago·Amsterdam, Netherlands

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BBC News

Anne Frank betrayal suspect identified after 77 years

A new investigation identifies a suspect who may have told the Nazis about the Jewish diarist's hideout.

4 months ago·United Kingdom

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Reuters

Cold-case investigation names surprise suspect in Anne Frank's betrayal

A six-year cold case investigation into the betrayal of Anne Frank has identified a surprising suspect in the mystery of how the Nazis found the hiding place of the famous diarist in 1944.

4 months ago·United Kingdom

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The Guardian

Anne Frank may have been betrayed by Jewish notary

Book claims to have solved mystery over who gave away family’s hiding place during second world warA Jewish notary has been named by a cold case team led by a former FBI agent as the prime suspect for the betrayal of Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.Arnold van den Bergh, who died in 1950, has been accused on the basis of six years of research and an anonymous note received by Anne’s father, Otto Frank, after his return to Amsterdam at the …

4 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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CBC News

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A cold case team attempting to unravel one of the most enduring mysteries of the Second World War — who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family — has reached what it calls the "most likely scenario" in the case.

4 months ago·Canada

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CTV News

Cold-case investigation leads to surprise suspect in Anne Frank betrayal

A six-year cold case investigation into the betrayal of Anne Frank has identified a surprising suspect in the death of the famous diarist, who was discovered in her canal side hideout and died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.

4 months ago·Toronto, Canada

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