4, 1944, after hiding for nearly two years in a secret annex above a canal-side warehouse in Amsterdam.... Simply to disseminate an assertion that then in the public discussion becomes a kind of fact borders on a conspiracy theory," Goldsmith said." Now the main statement is: a Jew betrayed Jews.... That stays in the memory and it is unsettling."( Reporting by Francois Murphy; Editing by Susan Fenton)....

A Jewish businessman is “ very likely ” to have been the person who betrayed the whereabouts of Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis, a six-year cold case investigation has concluded.... Anne Frank and her family were discovered on 4 August, 1944, having spent two years hiding in a secret annex attached to what had been her father Otto’s place of work.... They had been hiding with their friends, the Van Pels family, and the dentist Fritz Pfeffer....

AMSTERDAM( Reuters)-A six-year cold case investigation into the betrayal of Anne Frank has identified a surprising suspect in the mystery of how the Nazis found the hiding place of the famous diarist in 1944. Anne and seven other Jews were discovered by the Nazis on Aug.... " He knew that people in difficult situations sometimes do things that cannot be morally justified." While other members of the Jewish Council were deported in 1943, Van den Bergh was able to remain in the Netherlands.... I

IT is one of the saddest and most enduring cold cases of the 20th century – who told the Nazis where Anne Frank was hiding?... But now the 77-year mystery has been solved by a crack team of investigators, claims a new book on the wartime teenage diarist whose family were betrayed to the Gestapo.... Schepers was so furious that he successfully lobbied the SS to reverse the decision on van den Bergh’s Calmeyer status....