The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

hiding: abuse of children in, 256–57; access to lists of addresses of those in, 266–70; non-Jewish Dutch citizens in, 133; separation of families for purposes of, 246, 256

hiding in Prinsengracht 263, 51–55; bookcase covering entrance to Annex, 11, 39, 55, 65, 69, 70, 182–83; break-ins at warehouse, 11, 64–66; catalyst for, 9–10; chestnut tree behind Annex and, 134, 139; coping with prolonged state of, 4, 56–64; death of Edith Frank’s mother before, 53; decision to go into hiding, 50, 51–52; detectability of back Annex and secret entrance, 22, 48, 129, 133–36; escape subterfuge, 53–54; food, obtaining, 60–61, 64, 71, 139, 140, 144–47; Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl staying overnight with Anne, 61–62; helpers supporting, 15, 37–39, 54, 56–62; illness of Johannes Voskuijl, 63–64; number of Jews hiding in Netherlands, 4n, 32; as onderduiken (diving under), 4; persons aware of, 54–55; persons hiding with Franks, 4, 15, 54; persons suspecting, 65–66; radio, access to, 5–6; raid on (August 4, 1944), 3–8, 67–73, 135–36, 152–53; sleeping arrangements, 54; transportation of Frank furniture to, 52–53

Himmler, Heinrich, 33, 157, 322

Hitler, Adolf: annexation of Austria, 39; attempted assassination of, 5; bankrolled by German industrialists, 19; on bombing of Rotterdam, 41; election of, 30–31, 36; G?ring, waning influence of, 263; head on van Hoeve’s Victoria! poster, 208; Hoffmann and, 261; Mein Kampf, 30; Seyss-Inquart appointed Reich Commissioner by, 33; SS and, 322; US Office of Strategic Services report on strategy of, 13

Hitler Youth, 264

Hitler’s Bounty Hunters (van Liempt), 88, 108

Hoffmann, Heinrich, 261

Holl?nder, Julius, 40, 46

Holl?nder, Rosa, 40, 46, 53

Holl?nder, Walter, 40, 46

Holocaust. See betrayal of Anne Frank; hiders in Prinsengracht 263; specific camps Holocaust deniers, 94, 190–91, 200

homosexuality, 155, 157–58, 162

Hoogensteijn, Cornelia Wilhelmina Theresia “Thea,” 252–54

Hoste, Christine, 21, 138, 146–47, 184–85

Household Inventory Agency (Abteilung Hausraterfassung), 88, 315

Houthuijs, Wim, 157, 160, 272

Huf, Jules, 68, 196–97, 206

Hulsman, Bertus, 173, 176–77, 344n26

Hunger Winter, 86

illegal goods/documents, discovery of hiders by chance while looking for, 99, 183–85

Indonesia, 21

International Criminal Court, 21–22, 133

International Tracing Service (ITS; now Arolsen Archives), 216–17, 225

interviews with potential witnesses, 101. See also specific persons by name Iron Guard (De IJzeren Garde), 124, 318

IV B4. See Referat IV B4

J. & E. Henggeler, Zurich, Switzerland, 233–34

Jansen, Josephus (son of Job), 117

Jansen, Josephus Marinue “Job”: accusing wife and Otto Frank of affair, 114; as amoral opportunist, 128; as collaborator and NSB member, 113–15, 118, 119; Otto Frank’s postwar letter denouncing, 116, 118, 279, 338n2; letter denouncing Otto Frank, 115–16, 119, 121; sons, association with betrayal of, 116–17; as suspect, 113–20

Jansen, Martinus (son of Job), 113

Jansen-Bremer, Jetje (wife of Job), 113–14, 116, 117, 118

Japin, Arend, 252

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 201

“Jew-hunting unit.” See Referat IV B4

Jewish Coordination Commission (Joodse Co?rdinatie Commissie; JCC), 219, 222–23, 270, 318

Jewish Council (Joodse Raad/Judenraete; JR), 219–23; anonymous note and, 225–27, 245, 246; Contact Committee, Westerbork, 266–67, 277, 355n3; defined and described, 318–19; disbanding of, 267; emigration section, Otto applying to, 47; German use of, to control Jewish community, 44; Goudstikker art collection and, 263; granddaughter of van den Bergh on, 256, 257, 259; Het Joodsche Weekblad published by, 318; lists of addresses of people in hiding held by, 266–70, 276, 277; postwar condemnations of, 259, 267–68, 271, 280; postwar trials of board members, 267–68, 270; SD and, 225, 226, 230; Sperres system and, 45, 220–23; Spier and, 266–67; van den Bergh on, 219, 224, 227, 229–30; van den Bergh resigning from, 232

Jewish Honor Council and Courts (Joodse Ereraad), 270, 280, 318

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, 109

Jewish property, theft of, 19, 30, 49, 75, 77, 88, 89, 149, 151–52, 232, 260–65, 267, 319, 325

Jewish Quarter, Amsterdam, xii, 43–45, 293

Jewish Social Work organization (Joods Maatschappelijk Werk), 246

Jews: Christianity, converted to, 201, 220; exchange Jews, 83, 220–21; German definition and ranking of, 221, 232, 233 (table); in hiding during WWII (See hiding; hiding in Prinsengracht 263); in mixed marriages (with Christians), 157, 220, 232; Palestine Jews, 39, 83, 221, 226. See also Dutch Jews Het Joodsche Weekblad, 44, 318

Jordaan district, Amsterdam, 129, 132, 137, 138, 272, 319

judenfrei, 149

Juliana (queen of the Netherlands), 287, 289

“Just go to your Jews!” remark, 176–77

Kaper, Abraham, 3–4, 68, 119, 152, 153, 165, 171, 186–89, 213, 235, 259, 276

Kaper, Abraham, Jr. (grandson), 187–89

Kardonne, Rick, 355n6

Keg (tea and coffee business), 132

Kempin, Otto, 150, 160–61

Kennedy, John F., assassination of, 196

Kindertransports, 34, 294, 324

“Kitty,” in Anne Frank diaries, 10, 11

Kizio, Esther (granddaughter of Arnold van den Bergh; pseudonym), 255–59, 261

Kleiman, Corrie (daughter), 60, 170

Kleiman, Johanna (wife), 54–55, 60, 71, 170

Kleiman, Johannes: at Amersfoort labor camp, 72; anonymous note and, 247–48, 250, 279, 281; Austrian origins of, 8, 38, 72; Cauvern and, 249; death of, 202, 288; first investigation of raid (1947–1948) and, 164–67, 279; food, gathering, 60, 146; on Anne Frank, 59–60; on Lammert Hartog, 206; helping Franks and others hide in Prinsengracht 263, 37, 51, 52, 55, 59–60; next-door neighbor of, 170; Opekta, postwar operation of, 286; postwar life, 288; raid on Prinsengracht 263 and, 67–69, 71–72, 206; Silberbauer and, 195; survival of war by, 81; suspicions about hiding of Jews, knowledge of, 66; Willem van Maaren, hiring of, 64

Kleiman, Willy (brother), 52, 55, 65, 66, 72, 135, 136

Klijn, Henk, 253

“knowledge, motive, and opportunity” axiom, 118, 277–78

Koemans, Monique, 20–21, 110–11, 123, 138, 183–85, 211, 224

Koning, Johannes Gerard, 217, 347n4

Koot, Hendrik, 42, 115, 125

Kopgeld, 88–89, 108–9, 112, 127, 150, 152, 171, 201, 235, 297, 319

Kremer, Gerard and Gerardus Sr., 143–47, 155, 163, 272

Kristallnacht (1938), 26

Kroesen, Peter, 111–12, 131, 234

Kugelmann, Yves, 26–27

Kugler, Victor: at Amersfoort labor camp, 72; brother-in-law of, accused of collaboration, 170–71; Cauvern and, 249; death of, 289; different versions of raid provided by, 181–83, 184; first investigation of raid (1947–1948) and, 164–67, 279; helping hiders in Prinsengracht 263, 37–38, 49, 51, 64, 66; postwar life of, 288–89; raid on Prinsengracht 263 and, 68–72; Shapiro, proposed collaboration with, 282–83; Silberbauer and, 192, 194, 195; survival of war by, 81

Kuiper, Maarten, 153–54

Kurier, 196

Lages, Willy, 149, 186, 187, 193, 230–31, 252–53, 260, 263, 268

Lam, Dr., 144, 145, 146

Lee, Carol Ann, 98, 121–23, 126–27, 351–52n7

Letters Never Sent (Bolle), 225

letters of Otto Frank: diary-related mail, answering, 286, 289; in German Literature Archive Marbach, 184; obtained from Cara Wilson-Granant, 242–44; refusal of permission to quote from, 28n Levi, Primo, If This Is a Man, 9, 11

Life magazine, 92

linguistic analysis of anonymous note, 240, 251–52

Lippmann-Rosenthal (LIRO) bank, 49, 77, 149, 231–32, 319

Long, Breckinridge, 46

Lotty’s bench, Apollolaan district, Amsterdam, 293–94

Maison Evany (hat shop), Amsterdam, 144, 155

Man Who Hid Anne Frank, The (Shapiro), 282–83, 289, 355n6

Mandell, Ross, 18–19

Mapping Project, 102, 170, 319

Markman, Art, 199

Martinus, Martinus J., 115, 125

Mater, Jacobus, 204

Matisse, Henri, 25

Mauthausen, 45, 83, 157, 319

Media Project, 102

Meeboer, Jacob, 166–68

Meiler, Alfred, 348n7

Meiler, Max, 208, 210–11

Mein Kampf (Hitler), 30

memory, fluidity of, 181–83

Mengele, Josef, 193

Merwedeplein 37, Frank home at, 35, 40, 55

Michael Frank & Sons bank, Amsterdam, 31, 37

Microsoft AI program, 97, 102, 131, 201

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