AUGUST 4th - On this day - Annelise Frank

Annelise - 'Anne' Frank was captured by the authorities along with her family, hiding in an attic in Amsterdam. Subsequently, all but her father died in concentration camps. The family were betrayed by another local, himself Jewish - who was motivated by a desire to save his own family from the camps. 

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What can we learn from this? We can learn that when people in authority feel empowered to terrorise people, their preferred and most effective weapon of choice is dividing people against each other. 

In a tragic triangle of grief and fear, Arnold van den Bergh was as much a victim of this as Annelise Frank and her family.

Never forget Annelise Frank and all those who have been victimised by power-hungry sociopathy.

[An] investigation, featured on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” identified a surprising culprit: Arnold van den Bergh, a prominent Jewish notary desperate to save his own family. New York Times