The Betrayal of Anne Frank: Book Review

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Author of the recent biography Stalin's Daughter, Rosemary Sullivan has carved out another masterpiece with The Betrayal of Anne Frank, a Cold Case Investigation .

This book has just hit the shelves and is already being snapped up. In it, Sullivan has captured all the additional data that aroused the curiosity of readers of of anne frank&qid=1644107257&sr=8-1 The Diary of Anne Frank . Details surrounding the betrayal of Anne Frank are brought to light in this spellbinding expose. Using new techniques, a retired FBI agent has uncovered the identity and motives of the betrayer of the residents in hiding at 263 Prinsengracht and the events that made the denunciation possible.

A phone call to the 'Jew-hunting Unit' of the police, begins the downturn of events for the eight residents in hiding: Otto and Edith Frank, their two daughters Anne and Margot, Otto's colleague Hermann van Pels and his wife and son, and a dentist, Frizt Pfeffer. Only Otto survived after the Gestapo suddenly raided their hiding place of 25 months, on 4 August 1944. Anne tried to take her diary with her but a German officer threw it onto the floor, where it was later found and became the famous account of their ordeal, hiding from the Nazis.

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Rosemary Sullivan makes observations regarding racism and psychology as the pages turn, discusses 13-year-old Anne's diary and the harrowing effects of isolation and voluntary imprisonment. How many knew of the hiding place? What led to the phone call that later trapped them in Auschwitz? Who betrayed Anne Frank?

Sullivan is author of fifteen books, published in 23 countries and is winner of the Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and has lectured in Canada, the Americas, Europe and India.

The Betrayal of Anne Frank, a Cold Case Investigation is an absorbing read and includes the background story, photos of the Franks, their friends, Anne's final diary entry, maps and more. With anti-Semitism on the rise, it's important to support this book.

You can obtain a copy of The Betrayal of Anne Frank for $32.95 from The Book Tree, Shop 2, 456 Ruthven Street. It's also available from Dymocks for $32.99, Grand Central Shopping Centre, Margaret St.

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