If he wasn’t in the camps, where was he?”įurther investigations revealed that he was living in Amsterdam, an outcome that would only have been possible if he “had some kind of leverage”, he added. But Pankoke told CBS that while he was “very shifty” and “suspicious”, there is no evidence that he was anti-Semitic, adding that he had “incentive not to betray because if he did, he would have lost his job”.Īsked whether records showed that he was detained in a concentration camp, he replied: “We couldn’t find Arnold van den Bergh or any of his immediate family members in those camps. Previous efforts to identify a culprit have pointed the finger at Wilhelm van Maaren, a warehouse worker. Until his death, he “devoted much of his life trying to find out who had led the authorities to the cramped hideaway in the heart of Amsterdam”. Her father was sent to Auschwitz and “was the one inhabitant of the secret annexe to survive”, The Telegraph said. The last entry in her diary is dated 1 August 1944.Īnne was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany where she died in early 1945, aged 15, possibly of typhus. At the time, they “were among some 25,000 Jews in hiding across the country”.Īs documented in Anne’s diary, they hid in an annexe of her father Otto Frank’s warehouse where they remained until a raid by Dutch detectives and the SS in August 1944. The Franks went into hiding on 6 July 1942 during a period when “the Nazis were hellbent on ridding the Netherlands of all Jews” as “part of the Final Solution”, CBS said. Led by former FBI detective Vince Pankoke, the investigation deployed “artificial intelligence to comb through voluminous records to reach its conclusion”. But a new probe by CBS’s 60 Minutes has seen Arnold van den Bergh, who died in 1950, emerge as the “prime suspect”, The Telegraph reported. The mystery of who gave away the hiding place of the Frank family has evaded investigators for decades. Nazi trial: 100-year-old former concentration camp guard to face trial in Germany.

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