Pod Save America Hosts Call on Democrats to Cut All Israel Military Aid, No Longer Accept AIPAC Funding
Jews, Israelis Targeted in Austria Amid Surge in Antisemitic Incidents; Local Jewish Community Calls for Action
‘All of Our Strength’: Over 1,000 Pro-Israel Activists Gather in DC for Solidarity Conference
‘Devastated’: Wesley LePatner, Killed in Manhattan Mass Shooting, Was a Jewish Communal, Philanthropic Leader
Sen. Angus King Vows to No Longer Vote for Israel Military Aid Until Gaza Conditions Improve
Europe Won’t Pressure Israel to ‘Commit Suicide’ Amid Gaza Backlash, Palestinian State Push, Says Israeli FM
Israel’s National Soccer Coach Attacked in Athens Before Soccer Fans Chant ‘F–K Israel, Free Palestine’ at Match
New York Judge Sentences Neo-Nazi to 5 Years for Livestreaming Bomb Threats Against Jewish Hospitals
US Pressures Lebanon to Issue Cabinet Decision to Disarm Hezbollah Before Talks Continue
UK Plans to Recognize Palestinian State in September Unless Israel Meets Conditions, Starmer Says
Jewish Umbrella Group Asks Publisher to Pull Anne Frank Book
Error: Contact form not found.
by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
View of the entrance of the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands November 21, 2018. Picture taken November 21, 2018. REUTERS/Eva Plevier
The main umbrella group for Europe’s national Jewish communities urged HarperCollins to pull a book that suggests a Jewish notary betrayed Anne Frank, saying it had tarnished the teenage diarist’s memory and the dignity of Holocaust survivors.
The US-based publisher released the English language edition of “The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation”, by Rosemary Sullivan, on Jan 18.
It caused a sensation by naming Arnold van den Bergh as the main suspect in exposing the family’s hideout to the Nazis. Independent researchers subsequently criticized the book’s findings.
Its Dutch publisher Ambo Anthos this week suspended printing and apologized, saying it had questions about the methodology behind the conclusions, according to an internal email seen by Reuters..
HarperCollins, a subsidiary of News Corp, did not respond to several requests for comment. Ambo Anthos declined to comment.
The Brussels-based European Jewish Congress, which represents 42 national communities, called on HarperCollins to consider removing the book and distance itself from its “potentially incendiary claim … at a time when anti-Semitism and the denial and distortion of the Holocaust are on the rise.”
“In our view, the publication …has deeply hurt the memory of Anne Frank, as well as the dignity of the survivors and the victims of the Holocaust,” EJC President Moshe Kantor wrote to HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray on Feb. 1, in a letter seen by Reuters.
Anne’s diary about life in hiding has been translated into 60 languages.
She and seven other Jews were discovered in August 1944 after they had evaded capture for nearly two years in a secret annex above a canalside warehouse in Amsterdam. All were deported and Anne died in the Bergen Belsen camp at age 15.
Sullivan’s book details the conclusions of a six-year investigation led by a retired US FBI agent into the mystery of how the Nazis found them.
