The Betrayal of Anne Frank, Rosemary Sullivan
The Betrayal of Anne Frank, Rosemary Sullivan
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank
A Cold Case Investigation

Bestseller

Author: Rosemary Sullivan

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/18/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Rosemary Sullivan

ROSEMARY SULLIVAN, the author of fifteen books, is best known for her recent biography Stalin’s Daughter.  Published in twenty-three countries, it won the Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and was a finalist for the PEN /Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the National Books Critics Circle Award. Her book Villa Air-Bel was awarded the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History. She is a professor emeritus at the university of Toronto and has lectured in Canada, the U.S., Europe, India, and Latin America.  


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ruben on February 16, 2022

***This review contains spoilers*** I read this non-fiction account of a cold case investigation into the betrayal of Anne Frank because it has been making headlines in the past weeks. It claims, rather boldly, to have discovered the betrayer, thanks to the work of a cold case team that used modern i......more

Goodreads review by Bel on April 26, 2022

4,5 ⭐ jurídico miep gies.......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on December 03, 2022

4 stars! A fascinating, eye-opening, thought-provoking look into one of the worst times in history. This investigative book follows a Cold Case Team working toward uncovering the person(s) responsible for giving up the location of the Secret Annex where Anne Frank and her family and family friends hid......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on October 30, 2022

5+++ stars!! I was captivated with the following passages early in the book: "Real tools of war; not only physical violence but rhetorical violence." The report from the US Office of Strategic Services on how Hitler was able to seize control: * Never admit a fault or wrong * Never accept blame * Concentra......more

Goodreads review by Jill on March 17, 2022

In the year 2017, the German railroad, Deutsche Bahn, proposed naming its new highspeed trains after important figures in German history. Some of the names proposed were "Konrad Adenauer", "Karl Marx", "Ludwig Erhard", and..."Anne Frank". Evidently not everyone at Deutsche Bahn was asleep at the pro......more