A six-year investigation by Dutch authorities into the treason of Anne Frank has identified a suspect in the treason and subsequent death of this girl, one of the most recognizable Jewish victims of the Holocaust, who kept her diary for 2 years.
Her hiding place was betrayed to the Nazis by Jewish notary Arnold Van der Berg, according to the research team which included retired US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Vincent Pancock and about 20 historians, criminologists and data analysis experts.
More than 75 years after the Nazis stormed her hideout in Amsterdam, investigators have concluded it is "very likely" Van den Bergh betrayed the Frank family to save his family, said research team member Peter Van Tuisk, Tanjug reported.
As announced, the attempt to identify the traitor was not intended to lead to a criminal prosecution, but to the solution of one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the Netherlands during the Second World War.
Using big data analysis techniques, a master database of lists of Nazi collaborators, informants, historical documents, police records and previous research was compiled to uncover new clues.
According to what ERT reports, dozens of scenarios and locations of the suspects were depicted on the map in order to identify the traitor, based on the knowledge of the hiding place and the motive.
The Nazis found Anna on August 4, 1944, after two years in a secret room where she was hiding.
Mrs. Meep Gies, one of the family's assistants, kept Anna's diary in a safe place until Anna's father, Otto, published it in 1947, two years after Anna's death in the Bergen-Belsen camp at the age of 15 years old.
Her diary has been read by millions of readers around the world and has been translated into 60 languages. In it she described the days of her captivity for 2 whole years, during which she was hiding from the Nazis.
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