An unsolved mystery or a closely guarded secret? Anne Frank's diary has been read by more than thirty million people around the world. Thirteen-year-old Jewish girl Anne wrote it while hiding with her family and four others in a secret annex of an Amsterdam house during World War II, until they were arrested by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. Since then, generations have been fascinated by the mystery of who betrayed Anne and her family. And why? Despite the abundance of works – articles, books, plays – about Anne's fate, no one has clearly explained how eight people managed to survive for so long in such a cramped hiding place and who or what ultimately led the Nazis to their trail. This mystery has been clarified by an international team of experts led by retired FBI special agent Vincent Pankoke, using modern technologies, recently discovered documents, and sophisticated investigative methods. This tireless and passionate team of investigators, researchers, and volunteers thoroughly studied tens of thousands of pages of files, including those that no one had seen before. They conducted interviews with many descendants of people who knew the Frank family. Using methods developed by the FBI, the investigators carefully reconstructed...
