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Anne frank video diary episode 111/24/2023 They found safety in Holland, where Otto Frank ran a manufacturing business. Together, they dove into a familiar story: the Frank family had moved to Amsterdam from Germany to escape the rise of Hitler. It was all of these skills that help us understand and put into context, a crime that happened, you know, in 1944. Vince Pankoke: They brought a different view. Vince Pankoke: It was about a five-year crime at that point. Before this, what was the biggest gap in time between when you were approached and when the- the crime occurred? Jon Wertheim: You'd done cold cases before. And Vince Pankoke was going to take the lead digging in. There would be a book about it, which helped finance the project along with funding from the city of Amsterdam, but this was going to be an independent undertaking with serious investigators. The ground rules: Thijs Bayens would oversee the operation and could film the process for a documentary he's been making. What ultimately sealed it for Vince Pankoke, the guarantee of absolute autonomy. I mean, the honor of the diary, the honor of Anne Frank, we had to treat this with utmost respect. Jon Wertheim: You had to make sure this was serious. Because as a career investigator, I didn't wanna be associated with any type of a tabloid type investigation. Jon Wertheim: You hear, "We're gonna go back and look at Anne Frank." And that might have the ring of some schlocky media creation. There would be no perp walks or busted crime syndicates here, but he was intrigued… cautiously. Like so many, Pankoke had read the diary in middle school in Western Pennsylvania and it left a mark. Thijs Bayens: If it's a criminal act, it should be investigated by the police. What was gonna make your investigation different than the ones before it? Jon Wertheim: This question of who betrayed Anne Frank, that had been investigated for years. And then I think humanity said, "This is who we are.īetraying fellow Dutch to the Nazis was a criminal offense in the Netherlands, but two police probes and a whole library of books dedicated to the Anne Frank case, yielded neither convictions nor definitive conclusions. And she as a lighthouse comes out of the darkness. And, suddenly you find this innocent, beautiful, very smart, funny, talented girl. Thijs Bayens: I think right after the war people were shown the concentration camps, the atrocities that took place, the horror. Jon Wertheim: Of the millions, literally millions of stories to come out of the Holocaust, why do you think this one resonates the way it does? And suddenly people start to betray on each other. And it's a very warm area with the butcher and the doctor and the policeman. The area where Anne Frank lived is very normal. Thijs Bayens: For me, it was really important to investigate what makes us- give up on each other. He was two years into a comfortable Florida retirement, when his phone rang in the spring of 2016. Vince Pankoke had turned in his badge and gun. And now, they believe they have an answer-one we'll share with you tonight-to a question that's bedeviled historians, and haunted Holland: who was responsible for the betrayal? Anne Frank Then, in 2016, a team of investigators, led by a veteran FBI agent, decided to bring modern crime-solving techniques and technology to this cold case. Blinkering between hope and despair, the account of a Jewish teenager's life in hiding in an annex behind an Amsterdam warehouse, gave voice and a face to millions of victims of the Nazi genocide, yet one question has gone stubbornly unanswered all these years: who alerted the Nazi search team, in 1944, to Anne Frank and her family's hiding place? Two Dutch police inquiries and countless historians have come up with theories, but no firm conclusion. Seventy-five years after its publication, "The Diary of Anne Frank" remains among the most widely-read books in the world. Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? 27:36
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