Ans van Dijk: Dutch Nazi Collaborator Who Betrayed Even Her Own Family and Paid for It

World History: True Stories of the 20th Century · Apr 26, 2026 · 14m

Ans van Dijk was a Jewish collaborator in Nazi-occupied Netherlands who betrayed dozens of Jews in hiding, leading to their deportation and deaths during the Holocaust. Ans van Dijk remains one of the most disturbing figures of the Holocaust in the Netherlands. Born in Amsterdam in 1905 into a Jewish family, she would later become one of the most effective collaborators in the Nazi hunt for Jews in hiding. Her story illustrates how fear, coercion, and opportunism could turn victims into perpetrators under German occupation. After Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, anti-Jewish…