By David Israel, JewishPress.com
A retired FBI special agent and a team of investigators believe they’ve solved the mystery of who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.
CBS’ 60 Minutes on Sunday interviewed Vince Pankoke, who in 2016 was two years into his retirement from the Bureau when he received a phone call from a colleague in the Netherlands who said, “If you—if you’re done laying on the beach, we have a case for you.”
Dutch filmmaker and documentarian Thijs Bayens was looking for an experienced investigator to help him discover “what makes us give up on each other.”
Bayens told 60 Minutes: “The area where Anne Frank lived is very normal. And it’s a very warm area with the butcher and the doctor and the policeman. They worked together. They loved each other. They lived together. And suddenly people start to betray each other. How could that happen?”
Betraying fellow Dutch to the Nazis was a criminal offense in the Netherlands, and yet somebody turned in the Franks to the Nazis.
They conclude that it was a Jewish notary named Arnold van den Bergh.
VIDEO: 60 Minutes report
VIDEO: Report of i24News
The whole evidence is a letter sent to someone in 1964 that shows the judenrat knew about the hiding place which makes the theory that the head of the local Jewish council ratted them out the most viable, not nearly a strong enough theory too justify desecrating the legacy of the dead that can’t defend themselves… just another case of goyim blaming the genocide on the Jews themselves…
You can clearly see that they were broken to see what the Nazis caused some Jews to do to each other and they were not excited to uncover this. He said in the video “the real question to ask ourselves is ‘what would I have done in this situation?'” Yes there are a plithora of stories that show on the heroism of Jews to save each other, but unfortunately this too is a reality of the Holocaust which completely broke many many people in many ways.
מהרסיך ומחריביך ממך יצאו.
Today, too, we have far too many who would (and do) inform on their fellow Jews because what the government wants is more important to them than what the Torah wants.
These people were informing for the survival of themselves and their loved ones. I’m not saying it’s right, but may we never experience such a temptation in our lives. Please don’t compare it to some covid regulations.
that people who betrayed others to the Nazis were _better_ than those who inform on their fellow Jews nowadays?
The trauma and guilt of his actions must have made for a miserable existence.
Sounds like the fbi have time on their hands. They did not do this for the benefit of the Jewish people. They are spending their time on the wrong endeavors. Maybe that’s why crime has gone through the roof in the US.
If you read the article you would have seen that it says a RETIRED FBI agent..
Only a very small proportion of Dutch jews
survived the nazis. Their supposed ‘friends’ non jews in Holland have mostly informed.
To blame Anne frank on a jew sounds like suddenly there was a need to exonerate someone who is a more likely culprit