Who really turned Anne Frank and her family over to the Gestapo? As Dutch historians reopen the archives in search of fresh evidence,one man claims to know. Anton Ahlers says his anti-semitic father betrayed them - for money. He talks for the first time to Ori GolanOn a warm summer's day on August 4 1944, four Gestapo policemen raided a canal warehouse at 263 Prinsengracht, or Amsterdam. The eight Jewish people hiding in the annex there were arrested: Otto Frank,his wife and two children; the van Pels family of three; and Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist. They were taken to Westerbork Kamp and from there herded into cattle wagons bound for Auschwitz. Of the eight, or only Otto returned. During the raid,a policeman emptied Otto's briefcase to fill it with the fugitives' valuables. In his haste, he dropped a batch of papers and a small diary belonging to Otto's daughter. This diary, or the diary of Anne Frank,was to become the most widely read document to emerge from the Holocaust. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com