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History Holocaust

The Betrayal of Anne Frank

An Investigation

by (author) Rosemary Sullivan

Publisher
HarperCollins
Initial publish date
Jan 2022
Category
Holocaust, Historical, Jewish
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780062892379
    Publish Date
    Jan 2022
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780063063006
    Publish Date
    Jan 2022
    List Price
    $39.50
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780062892355
    Publish Date
    Jan 2022
    List Price
    $29.99 USD
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781443463041
    Publish Date
    Jan 2022
    List Price
    $34.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443463065
    Publish Date
    Jan 2023
    List Price
    $26.99

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A New York Times Bestseller

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...

Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?

Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works—journalism, books, plays and novels—devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years—and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.

With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents—some never before seen—and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest—and came to a shocking conclusion.

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behavior of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.

About the author

ROSEMARY SULLIVAN is an acclaimed biographer, poet and editor. She is the author of nine books of non-fiction, including Villa Air-Bel, which was awarded a Canadian Jewish Book Award; Labyrinth Of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession; By Heart: Elizabeth Smart—A Life and the #1 bestseller The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood, Starting Out. Her biography of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Shadow Maker, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award, the Toronto Book Award and the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography. Sullivan’s journalistic pieces have won her a National Magazine Awards silver medal and a Western Journalism first prize for travelogue; her academic honours include Killam, Trudeau and Guggenheim fellowships. She lives in Toronto, where she is a professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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Editorial Reviews

"Sullivan’s narrative, full of twists and turns and dead-end leads, commands attention at every page, dramatic without being sensational." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation….Sullivan circles all of these possibilities like Agatha Christie with Zoom and a time machine.” — New York Times

"The Betrayal of Anne Frank is a stunning piece of historical detective work, cleverly structured and grippingly written." — Telegraph (UK)

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