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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation(129)

Author:Rosemary Sullivan

5Jeroen 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), 169. See also Wikipedia, s.v. “Bep Voskuijl,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bep_Voskuijl.

6Melissa Müller, Anne Frank: The Biography, translated by Rita and Robert Kimber (New York: Picador USA, 2013), 395.

7Eva Schloss with Karen Bartlett, After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013), 270.

8Lee, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, 227.

9Ibid., 274.

10Gerben Post, Lotty’s Bench: The Persecution of the Jews of Amsterdam Remembered, translated by Tom Leighton (Volendam, Netherlands: LM Publishers, 2018), 150. See also Bob Moore, Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940–1945 (London: Arnold, 1997), 185–86.

11Post, Lotty’s Bench, 113–14.

12Ibid., 67.

13Ibid., 202.

14Ibid., 195.

15David Nasaw, The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War (New York: Penguin, 2020)。

16Wikipedia, s.v. “Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geertruida_Wijsmuller-Meijer.

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Aachen, Frank family vacations in, 37

Abraham Puls movers, 75

Abuys, Guido, 211

Abwehr, 260, 315

De achtertuin van het achterhuis (The Backyard of the Annex; Kremer), 143–44

Ahlers, Anton “Tonny,” 98, 99, 115–16, 120, 121–28, 130, 201, 279, 338n2

Alsemgeest, Arnoldina, 156

Amersfoort labor camp, 72, 81, 239, 315

Amstelveenseweg prison, 165, 211, 279

Amsterdam, shadow city of, 290–95

Amsterdam City Archives (Stadsarchief Amsterdam), 97, 111, 124, 130, 131, 172, 188, 234, 323

Anne Frank: A Biography (Müller), 98, 177, 205, 206

Anne Frank Fonds (AFF), 25–28, 101, 122, 192, 242, 283, 286–87, 315

Anne Frank House, Frankfurt, 27

Anne Frank House (Prinsengracht 263), Amsterdam: back Annex and secret entrance, detectability of, 22, 48, 129, 133–36; cold case investigation of, 97, 133–35; as crime scene, 22; foundation saving and maintaining, 24–25; Otto Frank’s business premises at, 48–49; Otto Frank’s return to, 81–82; as museum, xiii, 19, 22, 286; purchase of Frank home at Merwedeplein 37, 35n; sale and demolition, prevention of, 93, 247; theory of betrayal espoused by, 99. See also hiding in Prinsengracht 263

Anne Frank Remembered (film), 288

Anne Frank Remembered (Miep Gies and Leslie Gold), 146, 199–92

Anne Frank Stichting (Anne Frank Foundation; AFS), 24–25, 47, 176, 245, 246–47, 286, 315

Anne Frank story: Frank family leaving Germany for Netherlands, 31–32; German invasion and occupation of Netherlands, 41–47; Netherlands, Frank family life in, 35–40; stakeholders in, 23–28, 101; survival of Otto Frank/deaths of others, 79–84; Westerbork transit camp, 21, 36, 72, 75–78, 85–86. See also betrayal of Anne Frank; hiding in Prinsengracht 263

Anne Frank: The Untold Story (van Wijk and de Bruyn), 171, 175, 179, 273–74

Anne Frank: The Whole Story (ABC miniseries), 206

anonymous note sent to Otto Frank: Abschfrift note, discovery of, 239–40, 275; addresses rather than names mentioned as passed on in, 237, 275; granddaughter of Arnold van den Bergh on, 259; handwriting/typescript analysis of, 240–45; kept secret by Otto, 247–49, 279, 280; Kleiman on, 247–48, 250; linguistic analysis of, 240, 251–52; mentioned in second investigation (1963–1964), 224, 282; original and copies of, 225, 237–38; sender of, 250–54; A. van den Bergh implicated in, 224–25, 229, 275–76; van Hasselt, note given by Otto to, 245–48, 281; van Hasselt and, 245–48

anti-Semitism: of Ahlers, 123; in Austria, 37; Otto Frank, attacks on, 93–94; in Germany after WWI, 29–32; of Hitler, 30; in Netherlands, 17, 36, 42–43

Arbeitseinsatz, 10, 53, 133, 149, 204, 205, 316

archival files, searching, 99–101, 106–9