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Post by gar on Mar 23, 2022 9:22:39 GMT
The book that claimed to name her betrayer has been withdrawn after the story has been discredited. A new report by a WW2 team of historians and experts say the findings don't stack up. The author is now saying they never claimed to have uncovered the whole truth  BBC |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2022 9:38:27 GMT
Shame on that author. When one writes a book about a true events or particular people then you have a responsibility to make sure what you write about is in fact the truth.
How awful for the Van den Bergh family to have this accusation hanging over them when it was a lie. I agree with his granddaughter when she said "With this story, you are exploiting the story of Anne Frank, you are falsifying history and you are contributing to great injustice,"
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Post by Dalai Mama on Mar 23, 2022 12:34:28 GMT
Shocker - I saw it at the bookstore a few days ago and was thinking of picking it up but, frankly, it was already giving Three Cups of Tea vibes. Worse, though, since he stepped all over a family for it.
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Post by mellyw on Mar 23, 2022 18:07:49 GMT
Wow, I hadn’t seen that, thanks for posting gar. It created a bit of a media storm a couple months ago, and I fear that it did give neo-Nazis, white supremacists a terrible talking point. That it was a Jewish person who turned Anne Frank and her family in
Sadly, I doubt the pulling on the book will get the same airtime
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Post by melanieg on Mar 23, 2022 18:15:49 GMT
Oh this just came available off my waitlist at the library. Thank you for the heads up. I will pass on it now.
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Post by papersilly on Mar 23, 2022 18:19:10 GMT
i cringe when people are wrongfully accused. you can't put that horse back in the barn even if that person has passed. it may have been debunked but you can't change everyone's opinion back. shame.
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Post by hmp on Mar 23, 2022 18:29:28 GMT
How did this book even get published? Doesn’t anyone do any fact checking or peer review or something???
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Post by gar on Mar 23, 2022 18:58:44 GMT
Sadly, I doubt the pulling on the book will get the same airtime No, you're probably right sadly. |
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Post by librarylady on Mar 23, 2022 19:23:29 GMT
Shame on the publisher for not doing more diligence in the facts before publication.
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Post by auntkelly on Mar 24, 2022 14:48:03 GMT
I haven't followed this story closely, but I'm not at all surprised the book was pulled, based on what little I know about the story.
On the original thread about this story I think I asked if there was any evidence against this man other than the unsigned note. No one answered, so I assumed no one knew of any other evidence. I assumed when the book was released it would contain a "smoking gun" linking the man to the betrayal of the Frank family. I guess that didn't happen.
It's pretty awful to think that this man's name will be forever linked to Ann Frank's betrayal. One hundred years' from now some anti-Semitic will be telling his kids that it was a Jew who betrayed Ann Frank's family and that story will be passed from generation to generation. Very few of the people who hear this incorrect retelling of history will bother to check out the true facts.
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Post by Cupcake on Mar 24, 2022 18:20:42 GMT
I read this book. It was researched by a team of about 30 people over several years, and extensively documented. The book did state that this was the most likely theory, that this was not a definitive answer. I don’t think anyone can say with any certainty what actually happened. Being a Jewish girl myself, I was always fascinated by Anne Frank’s story (and diary).
Now as a public librarian who develops our nonfiction collection, I have to make the call to pull it. Ugh.
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