The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation(108)
3B. Haas, report on typeface examination for the CCT, August 21, 2019.
Chapter 38: A Note Between Friends
1Algemeen Handelsblad, September 20, 1940. (General Trade Magazine—lists sales transactions and notaries present.)
2CCT, interview with Ron van Hasselt, nephew of Jakob van Hasselt, August 12, 2019.
3Ibid.
4“Jakob van Hasselt,” Joods Monument, https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/201758/karla-hinderika-van-hasselt; https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/201760/els-van-hasselt.
5Arend J. van Helden, State Department of Criminal Investigation, Amsterdam, summary report, November 3, 1964, 18–19; NIOD, Doc. 1 Van Maaren.
6Johannes Kleiman, letter to Otto Frank, translated by the Cold Case Team, March 31, 1958, AFS.
7The source of this confrontation between Otto and Gringhuis is Carol Ann Lee, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003), 219. Lee mentioned the conversation, as did David Barnouw and Gerrold van der Stroom in their investigation, “Who Betrayed Anne Frank?” Though they were confident in the assertion and suggested that the conversation would be in the Silberbauer Doc. 1 file, a thorough search could not locate the source of the information. However, all three attest to its authenticity. We assume that the file was lost, removed, or misfiled.
Chapter 39: The Typist
1CCT, interview with Fleur van der Houwen, September 26, 2019.
2See photo at Hanneloes Pen, “‘Moffenmeid’ tante Thea was niet alleen fout,” Het Parool, July 8, 2016, https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/moffenmeid-tante-thea-was-niet-alleen-fout~baf4ccfc/.
3Jos Smeets, Tommy van Es, and Guus Meershoek, eds., In de frontlinie: Tien politiemannen en de duitse bezetting [On the Front Line: Ten Police Officers and the German Occupation] (Amsterdam: Boom, 2014), 155.
4See Jan Hopman, Zwijgen over de Euterpestraat: Op het hoofdkwartier van de Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam gingen in 1944 verraad en verzet hand in hand [In 1944, Betrayal and Resistance Went Hand in Hand at the Headquarters of the Security Service in Amsterdam] (Zoetermeer, Netherlands: Free Musketeers, 2012), 50.
5Jan Hopman, De wedergeboorte van een moffenmeid: Een verzwegen familiegeschiedenis (Meppel, Netherlands: Just Publishers, 2016).
6“Hoogensteijn, Cornelia Wilhelmina Theresia (1918–1956),” DVN, http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Hoogensteijn.
Chapter 40: The Granddaughter
1Thijs Bayens, interview with Esther Kizio, February 15, 2018; Vince Pankoke and Brendan Rook, interview with Esther Kizio, February 23, 2019.
2Thijs Bayens, interview with Esther Kizio, Amsterdam, February 15, 2018.
3Thijs Bayens, interview with Esther Kizio, February 15, 2018.
4J.W.A. Schepers, nos. 86395 and 22356, CABR, NI-HaNa.
5Interview with Arnold van den Bergh, POD, July 12, 1945, inventory no. 22356, J.W.A. Schepers, CABR, NI-HaNa.
6Vince Pankoke and Brendan Rook, interview with Esther Kizio, February 23, 2019.
Chapter 41: The Goudstikker Affair
1Kenneth D. Alford, Hermann Goering and the Nazi Art Collection: The Looting of Europe’s Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012).
2NARA, Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation, Consolidated Investigation Report no. 2, September 15, 1945, The Goering Collection, NARA microfilm publication M1782.
3“Interrogations: Miedl Case (Alois Miedl), Page 35,” Fold3, https://www.fold3.com/document/270014387/.
4Alois Miedl, NIOD, Doc. 2, file no. 248-1699.
5Anne Frank, October 29, 1943, diary entry in The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler (New York: Doubleday, 1995), 139. Entry 29 October 1943. In 1952, after a seven-year battle, Goudstikker’s wife, Désirée, recovered a part of the collection from the Dutch government. Over five decades later, a further two hundred paintings were returned to Goudstikker’s heirs. Report of Restitutie Commissie (Restitutions Committee), 2005.
6L2731, re August 30, 1946, interrogation of Hermann G?ring, Gerard Aalders Archive. Gerard Aalders, author and former NIOD researcher, has his own private archive at his home in Amsterdam.
7Edo von Saher, N.V. Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker. ‘Overzicht van de gebeurtenissen in de periode van 31 December 1939 tot April 1952 [Art Dealer J. Goudstikker: Overview of the Events in the Period from December 31, 1939, to April 1952]. Report of Restitutie Commissie (Restitutions Committee), 2005, 5.
8Vince Pankoke and Brendan Rook, interview with Esther Kizio, February 23, 2019; Provenance Wanted Project Report, 2000, 52.
9Emilie Goudstikker, Jewish Council Card, Arolsen Archive, Bad Arolsen, Germany.
10Amsterdam Stadsarchief PC, resident card, Oranje Nassaulaan 60.
11J. C. Berlips, memo to Dutch resistance, April 4, 1945, Alois Miedl, NIOD, Doc. 2, file no. 20200610.
12Henriette von Schirach, Der Preis der Herrlichkeit, translated by CCT Director of Research Pieter Van Twisk (Munich: Herbig, 2003).
Chapter 42: A Bombshell
1See, e.g., Algemeen Handelsblad, September 20, 1940. There are many advertisements making it clear VD, Spier, and Van Hasselt worked together. https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/results?coll=ddd&query=Bergh&cql%5B0%5D=%28date+_gte_+%2220-09-1940%22%29&cql%5B1%5D=%28date+_lte_+%2221-09-1940%22%29&redirect=true.