Het verraad van Anne Frank - Human

A television program. At the beginning of this year, a Dutch cold case team pointed out in a book that the Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh was the traitor to Anne Frank. It's world news. But after a storm of criticism, the book 'The betrayal of Anne Frank' is withdrawn from the market by the Dutch publisher. Argos Medialogica examines the rise and fall of the controversial book.The broadcast includes Mirjam de Gorter, granddaughter of civil-law notary Arnold van den Bergh. At the time, De Gorter was completely taken by surprise by the international media storm: 'They secretly wrote a script, a screenplay. A delusional story, a lie.' The leader of the cold case team, Pieter van Twisk, remains committed to his controversial findings. His team was given plenty of space for 'the unveiling' from important media. NRC, de Volkskrant and NOS inform us that they had signed an embargo from the publisher at the time, which prohibited testing the findings of the cold case team with independent experts before publication. “We should have just said: This is too sensitive. The embargo is unacceptable', says editor-in-chief Pieter Klok of de Volkskrant. We also spoke with Ronald Leopold, General Director of the Anne Frank House, and David Barnouw, Anne Frank expert.