Who Betrayed Anne Frank? One Study Suggests an Unfathomable Answer

Who Betrayed Anne Frank? One Study Suggests an Unfathomable Answer

Decades after the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, historians still wonder who gave away the hiding place of the Frank family. Newer research suggests an even more unfathomable answer.

The date for this ceremony was chosen because it was the day that Ilse Wagner, her mother Johanna and her grandmother Golda arrived at the camp where they were murdered by the Nazis. Tens of millions of people around the world had already read her name, and yet the story of Ilse Wagner, Anne Frank's friend and classmate, is little known. This Wednesday morning, a commemorative stone was unveiled on a street in the east of Amsterdam with inscript…

In the east of Amsterdam, a so-called missing persons stone dedicated to Ilse Wagner and her family was discovered this morning, writes AFP. Wagner was a friend and classmate of Anne Frank, who mentioned her several times in her famous diary. Frank was killed by the Nazis at the age of 15 in 1945 in the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, 14-year-old Wagner two years earlier at the extermination camp in Sobibor, Poland. Both were German-bor…