A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of the most enduring mysteries of the Second World War has reached what it calls the “most likely scenario” of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.
Their answer, outlined in a new book called The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, by Canadian academic and author Rosemary Sullivan, is that it could have been a prominent Jewish notary named Arnold van den Bergh, who disclosed the secret annex hiding place of the Frank family to German occupiers in Amsterdam to save his