Who Betrayed Anne Frank? A New Study Suggests Nobody Did

For decades, historians have debated who betrayed Anne Frank and her family.

After spending two years eluding Nazi capture while in hiding in Amsterdam, the Frank family was discovered on Aug. 4, 1944, and promptly deported from the Netherlands to concentration camps. Years later, after Anne Frank became famous for her diary, readers wondered what had gone wrong. A long-held theory proposed that a new employee at her father's business, Willem van Maaren, tipped off the Nazis.