The betrayal of Anne Frank to the occupying Nazi forces by an informant in August 1944 resulted in her imprisonment, deportation, and her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945. In spite of repeated investigations, the identity of her betrayer has never been established and remains one of the enduring mysteries of the Second World War.
As a Jewish refugee, Anne Frank fled to Amsterdam from the state-sponsored Anti-Semitism of...
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The betrayal of Anne Frank to the occupying Nazi forces by an informant in August 1944 resulted in her imprisonment, deportation, and her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945. In spite of repeated investigations, the identity of her betrayer has never been established and remains one of the enduring mysteries of the Second World War.
As a Jewish refugee, Anne Frank fled to Amsterdam from the state-sponsored Anti-Semitism of Germany in February 1934 after the succession of Adolf Hitler to Chancellor. Although anti-Jewish decrees followed the Nazi invasion of The Netherlands in 1940 she and her family remained relatively safe until her sister, Margot received a deportation order in July 1942. Their father, Otto Frank immediately took his family into the hiding place he had already prepared in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of his office building in the city centre. He and his wife Edith, with Margot and Anne, were joined within the month by Otto Frank's...
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