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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: 'It really hurts': Dutch Jewish leader Ruben Vis strikes back at explosive new Anne Frank book
Description: Last week on The CJN Daily, we brought you an interview with Canadian writer Rosemary Sullivan. Her latest book, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, details a team of historians and researchers that argue it was a Dutch Jewish notary who sold out the Franks to the Nazis. Sullivan defended her work and argued the Dutch need to face the fact that one-third of all Dutch Jews in hiding were betrayed, resulting in the death of 75 per cent of the country's Jewish population.
But the Dutch are angry at the book—especially one Dutchman, Ru...