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Who Betrayed the Frank’s

Who Betrayed the Frank’s. By: Katie Mitchell & Mitchell Higginbotham. Willem van Maaren.

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Who Betrayed the Frank’s

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  1. Who Betrayed the Frank’s By: Katie Mitchell & Mitchell Higginbotham

  2. Willem van Maaren Willem Van Maaren takes over as warehouse manager in 1943 when the previous manager, Johan Voskuijl, falls seriously ill. He’s unaware of the people hiding in the building, but he's an inquisitive type and becomes suspicious. The people in the Secret Annex notice that he's setting traps in the warehouse. He places papers on the corners of tables so that they fall off if you walk past. Willem van Maaren is a suspect in two investigations into the betrayal of the people in the Annex, in 1948 and 1963. But no conclusive proof ever came to light.

  3. Lena van Bladeren-Hertog Lena van Bladeren-Hartog was the wife of van Maaren’s assistant, Lammert Hartog, and was employed in the Opekta offices as a cleaner in 1944. Kleiman reported in an official investigation that in June1944 he was told by a friend, Anne Genot, that Lena told her she knew that people were being hidden at 263 Prinsengracht.

  4. Tonny Ahlers Tonny Ahlers was a Dutch Nazi, petty criminal, and informant to Kurt Döring at the Amsterdam Gestapo headquarters. According to Anne lee’s investigations he met Otto Frank in 1941 and attempted to blackmail him after the war. In 2002 she named him as the betrayer of Anne Frank, which prompted the first investigation into the case since 1964. Ahler’s wife Martha denied Lee’s claim, but it was supported by his brother and son, who claimed to have heard confessions from Ahlers himself that he had betrayed the Frank’s.

  5. Miep Gies While millions of people all over the world know about Anne Frank, far fewer are aware of Miep Gies, the woman who sustained Anne Frank and her family in hiding during World WarTwo. The humanitarian actions of Miep Gies more than fifty years ago in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam have had a special and enduring impact. Were it not for Miep Gies, the world would never have know about Anne Frank. Miep Gies, her Husband (Jan), and Otto Frank believed that Willem Van Maaren hadn’t betrayed the them.

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