Wion News: [2] The conspiracies and mysteries around one of the most famous incidents of World War II , namely the betrayal of Anne Frank, might have been solved. A Jewish notary has been identified as the ‘prime suspect’ who betrayed the teen diarist and her family to the Nazis. [3] Frank, who died aged 15, was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage and emerged as one of the most discussed victims of the Holocaust.
[4] Her name became popular posthumously with the 1947 publication of ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ in which she documented her life while in hiding from 1942 to 1944. Frank started diary entries in an autograph book she received as a gift, which was bound with red-and-white checkered cloth with a small lock on the front. In the diary, she listed many of the restrictions placed upon the lives of the Dutch Jewish population. She also wrote about her wish to publish a book about her time in the ‘Secret Annex’. After the war, her father Otto Frank fulfilled her wish. In 1944, Anne and seven other Jews were discovered by the Nazis on August 4, after they had hidden for nearly two years in a secret place above a canal-side warehouse in Amsterdam.