At the time of Bep Voskuijls death in 1983, she was the least known of the four Dutch resisters who helped hide Anne Frank. [Otto Frank] might have done this out of loyalty for my mother, wrote Van Wijk. Ahlers was a member of the Dutch Nazi NSB movement, appeared in Nazi propaganda films and was thrown out of his lodgings after his landlady discovered a swastika flag on the wall and a uniform bearing SS insignia hanging in his wardrobe. He needed the money and he needed the authorities' protection because his own business had gone bankrupt. Though the Nazis dissolved the council in September 1943, sending most of its members to concentration and death camps, van den Bergh and his family managed to escape deportationan exemption indicating that the notary had some kind of leverage, according to Pankoke. Anne was especially sorry about the latter, because it would be difficult to replace that many coupons. If so, please join The Times of Israel Community. . After the war, Frank removed content from Annes diary regarding Nellys collaboration. They could, for example, not flush the toilet too often, because the water discharge from the Secret Annex ran along the storeroom. "And we went into the city archive and found proof that actually he was 'Aryanized,' so he lost his Jewish identity during the war. Van Wijk had always been told Nelly did not return to the Netherlands until the end of 1944 or early in 1945 after the betrayal of the annex. Since 2017, Van Wijk has been interviewed several times by members of an international forensics team looking into the cold case of the betrayal, he told The Times of Israel. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. These include Lena Hartog, the wife of one of the warehouse employees; and Nelly Voskuijl, the sister of one of the Franks helpers. It takes just a few seconds. They had come very close to being discovered! For more than seven decades, investigators, researchers and journalists have been trying to shed light on the mysterious circumstances surrounding the arrest of Anne Frank, who famously captured the rise of Nazism in her poignant, posthumously published diary. Shortly after World War II ended, Otto Frank suggested that the culprit was Willem van Maaren, a warehouse employee who was not in on the secret. Co-authored by Belgian journalist Jeroen De Bruyn, Van Wijks book is called, Anne Frank: The Untold Story, with the subtitle, The hidden truth about Elli Vossen, the youngest helper of the Secret Annex. (As 15-year old Anne refined her diary with an eye toward eventual publication, Elli Vossen was the pseudonym she gave to Bep.). The research is based on Franks diary entries from March 1944entries that researchers say have not been used as a source until now. And probably wasn't capable of betrayal, because had he betrayed the annex, he knew that he would end up losing his job.". Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital Summer of 1933. . The book, released in English yesterday, points the finger of blame at a man called Anton Ahlers, a business associate of Otto's and a committed Nazi. "Van den Bergh wasn't deported," said Pieter van Twisk, a veteran Dutch journalist who co-founded the investigative project and led the research team.

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