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A Dutch tram company that transported tens of thousands of Jews, including Anne Frank, to Nazi concentration camps has attempted to claim back money owed for hundreds of trips.
Amsterdam’s municipal public transport operator, GVB, deported 63,000 Jews during World War II, The Telegraph reported.
The Gestapo paid him 10 florins for each tram and 12.50 for a night trip.
Although the company sent monthly invoices, not all had been paid when the Netherlands was liberated in May 1945.
Filmmaker Willy Lindwer and writer Guus Luijters discovered a file showing that GVB was still sending invoices in 1947, two years after the end of the war.
Anne Frank (pictured in 1942) died in early 1945 after she and her family were transported from the Netherlands.
Children behind a barbed wire fence at the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland
In 1944, after listening to the bbc announcing the D-Day landings on his wireless device, he wrote: Will 1944 bring us victory this year? We don’t know yet.
‘But where there is hope, there is life. It fills us with new courage and makes us strong again.’
Tragically, 1944 brought only the capture and, a year later, the death of Anne.
While the liberation of the Netherlands by Allied forces began only the following month, on August 4, the Franks (along with four other Jews) were discovered after having successfully hidden from the Gestapo for two years.
A GVB invoice for the last 900 tram journeys on August 8, 1944 showed that Anne Frank and her family were transported from Amsterdam Central Station.
The young woman and her family were sent to Auschwitz before Anne was sent to Bergen-Belsen in November 1944.
Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February 1945, days after the death of her sister Margot.
Anne Frank and her father Otto (center) going to the wedding of their friends Miep and Jan Gies in Amsterdam, July 1941
Two original railway carriages at the Westerbork Transit Camp from World War II at the Hooghalen Memorial Centre, Netherlands
Her mother, Edith, had died in January of that year, separated from her daughters in Auschwitz.
His father, Otto, was the only one who survived.
In 1947, he published Ana’s diary about her life in hiding, presenting to history possibly the most moving testament of the Second World War.
It remains one of the most read books in the world: more than 30 million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl in 70 languages.
Its author has become an icon of silent defiance against the Nazis and a symbol of the indomitable human spirit.
In 2005, Dutch Railways apologized for its role in the matter and promised to pay compensation in 2018.
GVB is now likely to face calls to contribute to an anti-Semitism fund or create a statue to compensate for his involvement in the deportation of Jews.