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Van Parreren family, 188–89

van Pels, Auguste, 4, 15, 54, 66, 70, 78, 82, 83, 285

van Pels, Hermann, 4, 15, 54, 61, 65, 66, 70, 78, 82, 146, 167, 285

van Pels, Peter, 4, 5–6, 10, 15, 54, 64–65, 66, 68, 70, 78, 82–83, 285

van Tijn-Cohn, Gertrud, 349n3

van Twisk, Pieter: archival files, searches of, 100, 224; assembly of Cold Case Team, 17–18; on Jewish Council, 267, 268; Kaper researched by, 187–89; Kremer theory and, 143–47; Vince Pankoke, first meeting with, 97; on plausible theories of betrayal, 278; population under enemy occupation, understanding response of, 32; recruitment to cold case investigation, xii, 15–17; stakeholders in Anne Frank story and, 23, 26–28, 101; on van den Bergh, 234; on Weiszes, 211, 216–17

van Wijk, Joop, 51, 99, 171–73, 175, 178–80, 197, 200, 273–74, 344n23, 344n36. See also Voskuijl, Bep (mother) Vellinga, Rinsophie, 109

Volksstimme, 194

von Schirach, Henriette and Baldur, 264

Voskuijl, Annie (sister), 172

Voskuijl, Diny (sister), 75, 172–74, 178, 344n26

Voskuijl, Elisabeth “Bep”: biography of, 99; death of, 289; discovery of Anne’s diary in Prinsengracht 263, 75; first investigation of raid (1947–1948) and, 164, 166; food, obtaining, 146; Lena Hartog and, 66, 205; hiders in Prinsengracht 263 assisted by, 37, 39, 51, 59, 61, 63, 66; on postwar agreement between Otto Frank and helpers, 200; postwar life of, 289; raid on Prinsengracht 263 and, 68–71; Silberbauer and, 194; sister Nelly and, 171, 180; son Joop van Wijk on, 171–72, 179; visiting Prinsengracht 263 after raid, 75. See also van Wijk, Joop (son) Voskuijl, Johannes (father), 39, 54, 55, 63–64, 70, 171–76, 179, 180, 273

Voskuijl, Nelly (sister), 99, 171–80, 273–74, 343–44n23

Voskuijl, Willy (sister), 177, 178

Vo?te, Henri?tte “Hetty,” 34

Vrij Nederland, 156, 210

Het Vrije Volk, 195, 355–56n4

Vught (concentration camp), 209, 210, 324

De Waarheid, 126

Waffen-SS, 45, 322, 324

Wall Street (film), 19

Wannsee Conference, 324

warehouse employee identified as maker of phone call by Silberbauer, 196–97, 202–4

Warlovechild, 21

Weeling, Karel, 88–89

Wegman, Ben, 343–44n23

Wehrmacht (German Army), 14, 33, 115, 123, 128, 143–46, 173, 230, 264, 272, 325

Weinrother (fiancée of son of A. Asscher), 268

Weisz, Richard and Ruth, 208–9, 211–13, 214–15, 217, 274

Weisz-Neuman, Ruth, 217

West German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachtrichtdienst; BND), 194

Westerbork transit/internment camp, 21, 36, 72, 75–78, 85–86, 159, 186, 211–12, 214–15, 217, 220, 226, 227, 266–67, 269, 290, 325

Westerkerk church, Amsterdam, 48, 61–62, 134, 138, 287

Weteringschans prison, Amsterdam, 75, 145

Who Killed Anne Frank? (CBS TV documentary), 279

Wiesel, Elie, Night, 9, 11–12

Wiesenthal, Simon, 8, 28, 190–96, 202, 239, 281–82, 283

Wiesinger, Josef, 193, 194

Wijsmuller-Meijer, Geertruida “Truus,” 294

Wilhelmina (Dutch ruler), 36, 41

Wilhelmina Catharina School, Amsterdam, 293

Wilson-Granat, Cara, 242–44

Winter Aid Netherlands (Winterhulp Nederland), 203

witness interviews, 101. See also specific persons by name Wolfswinkel, Gerrit, 200

Wolfswinkel, Rolf, 198–201

World War I, Otto Frank’s service in, 7, 29, 71

World War II: Amsterdam, shadow city of, 290–95; fate of Dutch Jews in, 4n, 17, 27, 32, 47, 85, 133, 148–49; German industrialists, profitability to, 19; Prinsengracht 263 occupants following news of, 4–5

xenophobia and racism, contemporary rise in, xiii

Xomnia, 97, 102, 131–32

Yad Vashem, Israel, 130, 142, 225, 289

yellow star, 156, 232

Zeller, Ron, 32–33

Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung (Central Agency for Jewish Emigration), 44–45, 88, 148–49, 160, 186, 251, 252, 260, 266, 277, 325





Photo Section


Otto Frank (center) with the people who helped hide him and his family. Left to right: Miep Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, and Bep Voskuijl. Courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam



This photo of Anne was used on the cover of many editions of the diary, and was seen and read by millions of students all over the world. Courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam



Otto Frank, before the war. Friends “smiled at his Prussian self-restraint.” May 1936, courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam.



Born in Germany, Edith Frank married Otto in 1925. They were forced to flee with their two daughters, Anne and Margot, to Amsterdam in 1933. She died in Auschwitz of starvation. May 1935, courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam



Margot Frank, older than Anne by three years, was called up for forced labor in July 1942. May 1942, courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam



The Franks and friends on their way to the wedding of Jan and Miep Gies. Amsterdam, July 1941, copyright ? Granger



The elusive Karl Josef Silberbauer. He arrested the Franks and the others in the Annex and started them on their way to the concentration camps. He eventually became a police officer in Vienna. Private collection. Heritage Images/TopFoto

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