History in the News- new theories about Anne Frank

If you click here you will get to a BBC News article on the latest theory that identifies a possible suspect who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis….

A team including an ex-FBI agent said Arnold van den Bergh, a Jewish figure in Amsterdam, probably “gave up” the Franks to save his own family. The team, made up of historians and other experts, spent six years using modern investigative techniques to crack the “cold case”. That included using computer algorithms to search for connections between many different people, something that would have taken humans thousands of hours.

I have a copy of her diaries if any of you want to borrow them to read.

Mr Kydd.

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