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Member of the local Jewish Council
- As a member of the local Jewish Council —administrative bodies established by the Nazis to govern Jewish communities in German-occupied Europe—van den Bergh had access to lists of addresses where Jews were known to be in hiding.
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Van den Bergh had been a member of Amsterdam's Jewish Council, a body forced to implement Nazi policy in Jewish areas. It was disbanded in 1943, and its members were dispatched to concentration...
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Jan 18, 2022 · The multidisciplinary team suggests that Arnold van den Bergh, a notary and member of Amsterdam's Jewish Council, gave the Secret Annex's address to the Nazis to avoid deportation.
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Jan 20, 2022 · The note said Van den Bergh had access to addresses where Jews were hiding as a member of Amsterdam's wartime Jewish Council and had passed lists of such addresses to the...
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The main piece of evidence was an unsigned note that Anne's father, Otto Frank, received in 1946, which was found in an old postwar investigation dossier. It specifically named van den Bergh, and alleged that as a member of Amsterdam's wartime Jewish Council, he had access to the addresses of Jews' hiding places, and was believed to have passed it ...
Following the publication of the theory, different historians expressed their doubts about its veracity. As Laurien Vastenhout, a researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, told the New York Times, there is no actual evidence that the Amsterdam Jewish Council had access to a list of all Jews' addresses. "Why would the...
It was Otto Frank's employee Miep Gieswho had saved Anne's diary, and handed it back to him at the end of the war. His daughter's jottings made a deep impression on Otto, who had her diary published in June 1947. Titled "Het Achterhuis" (The Secret Annex), 3,000 copies were originally printed. The book would later be translated into about 70 langua...
Jan 18, 2022 · The note said Van den Bergh had access to addresses where Jews were hiding as a member of Amsterdam's wartime Jewish Council and had passed lists of such addresses to the...
Jan 17, 2022 · The note said Van den Bergh had access to addresses where Jews were hiding as a member of Amsterdam’s wartime Jewish Council and had passed lists of such addresses to the...
Jan 17, 2022 · Investigators found records in the Dutch archive that proved someone on the council, which was dissolved in 1943, had handed over names and addresses of Jewish people in hiding.
