Anne Frank, who is best known for chronicling the harsh realities of the lives of Dutch Jews hiding from Nazis in her personal diary, is one of the most prominent faces of the tragedies of World War 2. And now, over 77 years since her death, the suspect who betrayed her and her family to the Nazi has been identified, according to a new book 'The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation' by Rosemary Sullivan.
Anne Frank and her family along with a few other Jews hid in a secret annex in Amsterdam for two years. During this time (1942-1944) Anne Frank wrote about her life in hiding from the Nazis and she wished to publish a book about it sometime. Unfortunately, on August 4, 1944, they were discovered by the Nazis and deported; Anne died in the Bergen Belsen camp at the age of 15 in 1945. Fulfilling her wish to be an author, her diary was later published posthumously by her father Otto Frank in 1947 as 'The Diary of a Young Girl'. Since then the book has become one of the most horrific accounts of the Holocaust.
