Dutch publisher pulls Anne Frank betrayal book amid critique

A cold case team’s research was published this year in the book The Betrayal Of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation (Michael C Corder/PA)

A group of Dutch historians has published an in-depth criticism of the work and conclusion of a cold case team that said it had pieced together the “most likely scenario” of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family in German-occupied Amsterdam during the Second World War.

The cold case team’s research, which was published early this year in the book The Betrayal Of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, by Canadian academic and author Rosemary Sullivan, immediately drew criticism in the Netherlands.