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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation(130)

Author:Rosemary Sullivan

Arolsen Archives (formerly International Tracing Service, or ITS), 216–17, 225

Arrest Tracking Project, 68–72, 102, 152, 153, 163, 186, 276, 316

artificial intelligence (AI) platform, 97–98, 102–3, 131, 224, 225, 272–73

Artis Zoo, Amsterdam, 291–92

Asscher, Abraham, 219, 227, 267–68

Asscher Diamond Company, 268

aus der Fünten, Ferdinand, 186, 226, 230, 260, 263, 266, 291

Auschwitz: contemporary knowledge of, 76; continued transportation of Jews to, near war’s end, 78; Rootje de Winter meeting Edith, Margot, and Anne at, 80; death march evacuation of, 82–83; death of Hans van Pels at, 82; defined and described, 316; hiders at Prinsengracht 263 transported to, 6, 78; Job Jansen’s son at, 117; liberation and return of Otto Frank from, 79, 86, 92, 126, 198, 249, 250, 286; Lotty and Beppie returning from, 293; Spronz and Otto meeting in, 287; Weinrother (fiancée of son of A. Asscher) deported to, 268; Weiszes deported to, 212, 217

Austria: anti-Semitism in, 37; Miep Gies originating from, 8, 38; Hitler’s annexation of, 39; identification and location of Silberbauer by, 193–97

Bacchi, Umberto, 347n6

Baer, Drake, 199

Bangert, Petrus Henrikus, 166–68

Barneveld Barrack (Barrack 85), Westerbork, 212, 214, 215, 267

Barnouw, David, 98–99, 129, 132, 145, 175, 352n3

Barrack 67, Westerbork, 77, 211, 212

Bayens, Hans, xiv–xv

Bayens, Joachim, xii

Bayens, Thijs: archival files, access to, 100; assembly of Cold Case Team, 17–18, 21; Bolle and, 226–27; funding for investigation, 17; granddaughter of Arnold van den Bergh and, 255–59; institution of cold case investigation, reasons for, xi–xv; Vince Pankoke, first meeting with, 97; personal connection to Dutch resistance movement, xiv–xv, 15; pilot video, 97; Menachem Sebbag and, 112; stakeholders in Anne Frank story and, 23, 25–28, 101; on van den Bergh, 235–36

BBC Radio, 4, 50, 123, 321–22

Behavioral Science Unit, FBI, 98

Beppie and Lotty in Apollolaan district, 293–94

Bergen-Belsen, 8, 20, 83, 191, 221, 226, 227, 290–91, 316

betrayal of Anne Frank: elimination of plausible theories, 272–75; first investigation of raid (1947–1948), 98–99, 164–69, 202, 279; Otto Frank’s knowledge of betrayer’s identity, 200, 207, 270–71, 273, 274, 278–83; Miep Gies’s knowledge of betrayer’s identity, 185, 198–201, 205–7, 274, 278, 279–80, 282–83; helpers’ possible association with, 170–80; illegal goods/documents, discovery of hiders by chance while looking for, 99, 183–85; Jews, Otto Frank’s claim of betrayal by, 270–71, 274; neighborhood theory, 129–36; number of Jews in Netherlands betrayed while in hiding, 4n, 32, 133; phone call leading to raid, 3, 18, 119, 144, 150, 171, 185–89, 196–97, 206, 277; prior information about bookcase and Annex, 69–70; raid on Prinsengracht 263 (August 4, 1944), 3–8, 67–73, 135–36, 152–53; repercussions of discovering betrayer, 112; second investigation of raid (1963–1964), 98–99, 202–4, 224, 239–40, 282; viability of remaining scenario, 275–85. See also anonymous note sent to Otto Frank; cold case investigation; specific suspects black market, 52, 60, 64, 161, 203, 205, 214, 239

blackmail, 121–28, 152

blackout curtains, 247

Blair, Jon, 288

Blonk, Hendrik, 152

Bolle, Leo, 226

Bolle, M. H., 220

Bolle, Mirjam, 225–27

Bookcase (cold case investigation information system), 110–12

bookcase covering entrance to Annex, 11, 39, 55, 65, 69, 70, 182–83

Braams, Miep, 162

Bremer, Eric, 116

Brilleslijper, Rebekka “Lin” and Marianne “Janny,” 75–76, 82

Broek, Gertjan, 70n, 99, 183

Buchenwald, 45

Bureau of Jewish Affairs (Bureau Joodse Zaken; BJA), 3, 119, 149, 152, 165, 213, 235

Bureau of National Security (Bureau Nationale Veiliheid; BNV), 123, 126, 165, 166, 316, 338n2

Café Alcazar, Amsterdam, 42–43

Cahn, Werner, 91

Calmeyer, Hans Georg, 42, 221, 222

Calmeyer status, 221–22, 232–36, 233 (table), 263, 269–70

Canadian Library and Archives, 100

Capon, Corneils M., 262n

Carlton Hotel, Amsterdam, 56n

Cauvern, Abraham “Ab,” 165, 249, 279

cell espionage, 160

Central Archives of Extraordinary Justice (Centraal Archief van de Bijzondere Rechtspleging; CABR), 87–88, 100, 110, 114, 117, 119, 123–25, 139–41, 148, 150, 152–54, 157, 161, 164, 177, 178, 214, 234, 272, 316–17