Poetry and award-winning books like “Stalin’s Daughter” and “Villa Air-Bel,” which chronicle a safe house in Marseille during World War II, have made Sullivan an expert at recreating readers in real life. In addition to filmmaker Thijs Bayens and
journalist/researcher Pieter van Twisk, Sullivan’s travelling companions include “all the bibliophiles rugged” Pieter van Twisk. Vince Pankoke, a retired FBI agent in Florida who “still looks to be living undercover, a nice, nondescript man in a guayabera shirt,” was hired by Bayens and van Twisk in 2016.
As the narrative progressed, the cold case investigators recruited an international team of experts in the fields of criminology, behavioural, computer, social, and psychological sciences, as well as psychologists; a handwriting expert; a rabbi; and many others. They’re also ready to hear from you if you have any information.
Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation” Author Rosemary Sullivan
An artificial intelligence tool developed by Microsoft, as well as old-fashioned schoolboy reporting, has been utilised in conjunction with modern big-data techniques. They have proof, as a young college student might say, thanks to German bounty hunters’ meticulous record-keeping.
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“The Betrayal of Anne Frank” is structured like a procedural or a mystery, but it reeks of real history, human tenderness, and outrage. From dark and sinister criminality to a noble pursuit with algorithmic openness, it swiftly pushes the idea of “partnership” over eight decades and nearly 400 pages.
We were astonished to learn of “the degree of hostility among the many stakeholder in the Anne Frank legacy,” as Sullivan puts it so dryly. One of Otto Frank’s charities, the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, has long sought to protect its share of the diaries’ complicated international copyright and refused to cooperate with the cold case team.
A trustee even thundered at an early meeting that investigators could not use Anne’s name. Her title seems to be a nod to that. When it came to the Anne Frank Foundation’s efforts to make the Prinsengracht 263 into a popular museum, Sullivan found it to be more helpful.
It has been suggested that a “suspiciously curious” warehouse manager and his assistant’s alleged gossipy wife could be potential informants. Job Jansen, a former employee who called Otto Frank treacherous for suggesting that the Third Reich could lose the war, and Anton Ahlers, a “shady character” and a “cocky opportunist,” could also be potential informants, according to various theories.
Ans van Dijk, a Jewish “V-Frau” who approached Jews to avoid deportation himself; and Nelly Voskuijl, the sister of a lady who helped hide the Franks and who went along with the enemy and experienced fainting spells were additional possibilities.
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Last Words
No informant was needed, according to one historian. The cops may have stumbled upon a concealed annex by chance, hidden behind a moving bookshelf, while searching for forgeries or work infractions. All these possibilities circle around Sullivan like Agatha Christie with Zoom and a time machine in Sullivan’s stories.
Details like what happened when Abraham Puls’ moving business came to take up the belongings of deportees; sleepy neighbours called this being pumped illustrate the town square’s mixture of ordinary life and tragedy (pulsed).
