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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation(118)

Author:Rosemary Sullivan

2Anne Frank, diary entry, April 11, 1944, in ibid., 262.

3Elie Wiesel, Night, translated by Marion Wiesel (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), ix.

4Ian Thomson, Primo Levi (New York: Vintage, 2003), 244.

5Frank, diary entry, July 15, 1944, in The Diary of a Young Girl, 333.

6Cynthia Ozick, “Who Owns Anne Frank?,” New Yorker, September 28, 1997, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/10/06/who-owns-annefrank.

7Frank, diary entry, May 3, 1944, in The Diary of a Young Girl, 281.

8Walter C. Langer, Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler’s Life and Legend (Washington, DC: Office of Strategic Services, 1943), 219 (secret document approved for release in 1999)。 See also Henry A. Murray, Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler: With Predictions of His Future Behavior and Suggestions for Dealing with Him Now and After Germany’s Surrender (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Psychological Clinic, 1943), https://ia601305.us.archive.org/22/items/AnalysisThePersonalityofAdolphHitler/AnalysisofThePersonalityofAdolphHitler.pdf.

Chapter 3: The Cold Case Team

1“Twisk, Pieter van,” Systeemkaarten voor verzetsbetrokkenen (OVCG) (index cards for those involved in the resistance), no. 2183, Groninger Archieven, https://www.groningerarchieven.nl/archieven?mivast=5&mizig=210&miadt=5&micode=2183&milang=nl&mizk_alle=van%20Twisk&miview=inv2.

Chapter 4: The Stakeholders

1Cold Case Team (hereafter CCT), interview with Jan van Kooten, March 4, 2016.

2The committee is called Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.

3Gerrit Bolkestein, broadcast on Radio Oranje, March 28, 1944.

Chapter 5: “Let’s See What the Man Can Do!”

1Otto Frank, letter to Leni Frank, May 19, 1917, quoted in Carol Ann Lee, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003), 18.

2Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, translated by Ralph Manheim (New York: Mariner Books, 1998) (originally published 1926)。

3R. Peter Straus, interview with Otto Frank, Moment, December 1977, quoted in Lee, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, 37–38.

4Ernst Schnabel, The Footsteps of Anne Frank, translated by Richard and Clara Winston (Harpenden, UK: Southbank Publishing, 2014), 24.

5Bob Moore, Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940–1945 (London: Arnold, 1997), 2.

6Pim Griffioen and Ron Zeller, “The Netherlands: The Greatest Number of Jewish Victims in Western Europe,” Anne Frank House, https://www.annefrank.org/en/annefrank/go-in-depth/netherlands-greatest-number-jewish-victims-western-europe/.

7Moore, Victims and Survivors, 72–73.

8Ibid., 257–58.

9Ibid., 182–84.

Chapter 6: An Interlude of Safety

1Melissa Müller, Anne Frank: The Biography, translated by Rita and Robert Kimber (New York: Picador, 2013), 94.

2Eda Shapiro and Rick Kardonne, Victor Kugler: The Man Who Hid Anne Frank (Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2008), 29.

3Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 30.

4Ibid., 23.

5Carol Ann Lee, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003), 52.

6Harry Paape (then director of NIOD), interviews with Jan and Miep Gies, February 18 and 27 and December 12 and 18, 1985, NIOD.

7Gies, Anne Frank Remembered, 11.

8Lee, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, 52.

9Müller, Anne Frank: The Biography, 92.

10Milly Stanfield, interviewed in Carl Fussman, “The Woman Who Would Have Saved Anne Frank,” Newsday, March 16, 1995. Includes her version of Otto Frank’s reply.

Chapter 7: The Onslaught

1Bob Moore, Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940–1945 (London: Arnold, 1997), 63.

2Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 61.

3“Thorbeckeplein,” Joodsamsterdam, https://www.joodsamsterdam.nl/thorbeckeplein/.

4Arthur Seyss-Inquart, speech to NSNAP, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, March 12, 1941. See Gerben Post, Lotty’s Bench, The Persecution of the Jews of Amsterdam Remembered, translated by Tom Leighton (Volendam, Netherlands: LM Publishers, 2018), 44.

5Ibid.

6Moore, Victims and Survivors, 70.

7Ibid., 69–73.

8Ad van Liempt, Hitler’s Bounty Hunters: The Betrayal of the Jews, translated by S. J. Leinbach (New York: Berg, 2005), 10.

9Moore, Victims and Survivors, 71–73.