Betrayal Of Anne Frank
Anne Frank and those in hiding with her were betrayed to the occupying Nazi forces by an unidentified informant on 4 August 1944, resulting in their imprisonment and deportation to concentration camps. Of the eight, only Otto Frank survived. (Hermann van Pels died three weeks after his arrival at Auschwitz concentration camp, Fritz Pfeffer died 20 December 1944 in Neuengamme, Edith Frank died in January 1945 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Anne and Margot died within three days of each other in March 1945 at Bergen-Belsen, Auguste van Pels died sometime between April and May 1945 at Theresienstadt, and Peter van Pels died in May 1945 in Mauthausen.) Despite repeated investigations, the identity of their betrayer has never been established and remains one of the enduring mysteries of the Second World War.
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