Christine’s Reviews > The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation > Status Update

Finish oh boy. I am very confused about the chapter with the granddaughter of the man they accuse. They change her name but say she is in her 50s, she says she never heard her grandparents talk about hiding, but if she is in her 50s, and her grandfather died in 1950, how would she know?

Sullivan was hired to write this. But I am really surprised, even in this first part, that some editor at some point didn't point out some of the issues with research

Additionally line from former police detective about any police being able to tell about the hidden annex from the outside was strange. It might be true, but the man saying it, says it as he looks at the house as a famous house, in modern Amsterdam; he knows what it is so that might influence how he sees it

Also some very strange lines and things. The line about it being hard to find a family in the Netherlands without a connection to WWII seems a slap to immigrants.

Questions

1. None of the historians listed so far seem to have background in Holocaust studies, just public history. Only one lists studying Amsterdam in the 1940s as an area study. The lack of a Holocaust or WW II historian is a strange omission.

Started this last night, before the news broke about the Dutch publisher stopping publication for review.

Not an expert but even in part 1 I have questions