“[She] was the best of the 10 who worked for me at the time,” Ans Van Dijk’s supervisor would say of van Dijk after the war. Indeed, the prosecutor in her case stated that van Dijk had “a satanic hunting instinct,” while an ex-lover called her “a devil in human form.” Though her attorney sent a request to the court for a psychiatric evaluation, this was denied. Kremer says that his father overheard van Dijk speaking in the Nazi offices in early August 1944 about a hiding place in Prinsengracht — the implication, of course, being that she was speaking of the Secret Annex, where Anne Frank was hiding with her father Otto, her mother Edith, her sister Margot, and four others.
Author: Austin Harvey
Published at: 2025-05-05 23:00:00
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