Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teenage Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp.
But despite the many works of journalism, books, plays, and novels devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years.
With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents – some never before seen – and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks.
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission.