Anne Frank’s Final Burial Place Believed To Have Been Found

The mass grave that Anne Frank is believed to have been buried has reportedly been uncovered by a group of Dutch researchers. The burial spot of the 15-year old, who died in a concentration camp in 1945, was lost for years after she was filed as being buried in a mass grave. The teenager, who kept a famous diary documenting her struggles of living in hiding with her family in a single room during World War II, died in the infamous Bergen-Belsen camp. Dutch researchers now believe they have pinpointed the 52ft by 13ft pit – now a field – from clues give to Paul Verschure, a grandson of a Dutch resistance fighter Jan Verschure. A memorial stone marking Anne and her sister Margot's death in Bergen-Belsen Paul, who was tracking down his grandfather’s grave, met with several Holocaust survivors, whose clues led him and a research team to the spot. The spot is located at the end of the former main road of the camp, which was liberated in April 1945. Although researchers believe they have identified the correct location, the claims can not be verified. According to The Mirror, Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the Bergen-Belsen memorial said further investigation of the grave is prohibited under Jewish law: “We have consulted the Jewish community of Lower Saxony and according to religious laws no digging is allowed. "That’s why there’s a decision not to start a dig. In any case, the whole camp has been declared a cemetery.”