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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation(123)

Author:Rosemary Sullivan

3Ans van Dijk, CABR, NI-HaNa.

4Koos Groen, Een prooi wordt jager: De Zaak van de joodse verraadster Ans van Dijk (Meppel, Netherlands: Just Publishers, 2016), 90.

5Samuel Clowes Huneke, “The Duplicity of Tolerance: Lesbian Experiences in Nazi Berlin,” Journal of Contemporary History 54 (1): 30–59.

6Statement by Mies de Regt, November 11, 1945, translated by Circe de Bruin, Ans van Dijk, CABR, NI-HaNa.

7Groen, Een prooi wordt jager, 123.

8Willy Lindwer, The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank: The Stories of Six Women Who Knew Anne Frank, translated by Alison Meersschaert (New York: Pan Macmillan, 2004), 169–70.

9Case of Andries Posno, who entrusted Van Dijk with information about his family and helpers, Ans van Dijk, CABR, NI-HaNa.

10CCT, interview with Louis de Groot, Washington, DC, May 30, 2018.

11Sytze van der Zee, Vogelvrij: De jacht op de joodse onderduiker (Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2010), 361.

12Statement by Mies de Regt, November 11, 1945, translated by Circe de Bruin, Ans van Dijk, CABR, NI-HaNa.

Chapter 27: No Substantial Proof, Part I

1Johannes Kleiman, letter to Politieke Opsporingsdienst (hereafter POD), February 1945, file no. 23892, CABR, NI-HaNa. It must have been misdated, as it was not possible to write to the POD for investigation in February 1945.

2Otto Frank, letter to Alice Frank-Stern, November 11, 1945, reg. code Otto Frank Archive-72, AFS.

3Johannes Kleiman, letter to Politieke Recherche Afdeling (hereafter PRA), July 16, 1947, NI-HaNa, CABR W. Van Maaren.

4Ibid.

5Ibid.

6Interview with Willem van Maaren, PRA investigation report, February 2, 1948, Willem van Maaren, CABR, NI-HaNa.

7Ibid.

8PRA, investigation report, 1948, dossier 61196, Willem van Maaren, CABR, NI-HaNa.

9Dossier 6634, session of August 13, 1949, translated by Joachim Bayens and Rory Dekker, Cantonal Court, Amsterdam, Willem van Maaren, CABR, NI-HaNa.

Chapter 28: “Just Go to Your Jews!”

1Ernst Schnabel, The Footsteps of Anne Frank, translated by Richard and Clara Winston (Harpenden, UK: Southbank Publishing, 2014), 103.

2Vince Pankoke, interview with Joop van Wijk, Proditione Office, Herengracht, December 7, 2018.

3Police file, November 1, 1941, Stadsarchief Amsterdam.

4Jeroen de Bruyn and Joop van Wijk, Anne Frank: The Untold Story: The Hidden Truth About Eli Vossen, the Youngest Helper of the Secret Annex (Laag-Soeren, Netherlands: Bep Voskuijl Productions, 2018), 99.

5Teresien da Silva, AFS, interview with Diny Voskuijl, November 14, 2011, AFS.

6Nelly Voskuijl, application for German visa, cert. no. 19612, December 18, 1942, Stadsarchief Amsterdam. See also Gertjan Broek, “An Investigative Report on the Betrayal and Arrest of the Inhabitants of the Secret Annex,” Anne Frank House, December 2016, https://www.annefrank.org/en/downloads/filer_public/4a/c6/4ac6677d-f8ae-4c79-b024-91ffe694e216/an_investigative_report_on_the_betrayal_and_arrest.pdf, 19.

7Teresien da Silva, interview with Diny Voskuijl, November 14, 2011, AFS.

8Jeroen de Bruyn and Joop van Wijk, interview with Bertus Hulsman, February 20, 2014, Amsterdam. See De Bruyn and Van Wijk, Anne Frank: The Untold Story, 102.

9CCT, interview with Joop van Wijk, December 7, 2018.

10Anne Frank, diary entry, May 6, 1944, in The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold van der Stroom, translated by Arnold J. Pomerans, B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday, and Susan Massotty (New York: Doubleday, 2003), 655.

11Anne Frank, diary entry, May 11, 1944, ibid., 668.

12Anne Frank, diary entry, May 19, 1944, ibid., 674.

13Jeroen de Bruyn and Joop van Wijk, Bep Voskuijl, het zwijgen voorbij: En biografie van de jongste helpster van het Achterhuis (Amsterdam: Prometheus Bert Bakker, 2018), 192. Rhijja Jansen, “Dat Nelly fout was, daar werd nooit over gesproken,” Volkskrant, April 26, 2018.

14Bruyn and Wijk, Anne Frank: The Untold Story, 102; Jeroen de Bruyn and Joop van Wijk, interview with Bertus Hulsman, February 20, 2014, Amsterdam.

15Dineke Stam, interview with Bertus Hulsman, AFS, tape 1, time: 25:30, AFS.

16Ibid., tape 2, time: 19:15.

17Ibid., tape 2, time: 10:51

18Vince Pankoke, interview with Melissa Müller, Munich, February 17, 2019.

19CCT, interview with Gerlof Langerijs, March 28, 2019.

20Joop van Wijk, interview and email exchange with Hugo Voskuijl.

21Inventory 13, 15, 17, 22, Interneringsarchieven (Internment Archives), 1945–50, Groningen Archives.

22Nelly Voskuijl, AC card, Groningen Archives. Unpublished research by Ben Wegman shows that Nelly lived not only at Grote Rozenstraat 14, Steentilstraat 47, and Gedempte Zuiderdiep 25a but also at Noorderstationsstraat 20 for two months. Wegman’s research and a Delpher search show that Diny’s memories about Nelly’s work and the Voet family are correct: she is registered as an in-house clerk for widow A. Hendriks at Grote Rozengracht 14 from October 26, 1945, until May 23, 1947, when she moved to Noorderstationsstraat 20a. At number 20 Noorderstationsstraat the son of the Voet family lived with his wife and young baby. After two months, on July 28, 1947, Nelly moved to Gedempte Zuiderdiep 25a, the house with the café of the head of the Voet family, Gozen Theo Voet. Nelly was registered as an in-house maid. This information, together with the vague remarks of Joop van Wijk that the “family Voet” was friends with Nelly, confirms that Nelly Voskuijl was not in prison between October 26, 1945, and April 8, 1953, when she moved back to Amsterdam.