The Anne Frank House was more circumspect in its reaction, stating that the Pankoke team's investigation was impressive and had "generated important new information and a fascinating hypothesis that merits further research." Now, Reuters is reporting that the book's Dutch publisher, Ambo Anthos, has suspended printing for a second run of the book after questions were raised about the shoddiness of the research, per an internal email that the news service acquired.īut University of Leiden historian Bart van der Boom dismissed the theory as "defamatory nonsense" to the BBC, while Amsterdam University's Johannes Houwink insisted that, if lists of Jews in hiding had existed, they would have surfaced long before now. It also raised the hackles of historians who expressed skepticism about the hypothesis. The news caused a stir, given that the named suspect was also Jewish. The new suspect: a local Jewish leader named Arnold van den Bergh, who may have handed over lists of addresses where fellow Jews were hiding in order to protect his own family. The theory was featured in a segment on 60 Minutes and is described in detail in a new book by Rosemary Sullivan: The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation. Last month, we reported on a new hypothesis about who might have betrayed the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis in 1944, which ultimately led to the death of Anne and most of her family. YouTube/60 Minutes/CBS reader comments 102 with
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