Dutch publisher pulls Anne Frank betrayal book amid critique

Copies of the Dutch edition of Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan's "The Betrayal of Anne Frank" are on display in a bookshop in The Hague. Dutch publishing house Ambo Anthos has apologised for the book in which a team of experts concluded that the Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh may have passed on the address of the Secret Annex to the Germans. Photo: AFP

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.

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.