Publisher recalls book about Anne Frank's "betrayer"

[beschizza]

Originally published at: Publisher recalls book about Anne Frank's "betrayer" | Boing Boing

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[Doctor_Faustus]

@beschizza, the title is missing a verb

[euansmith]

Or an adjective, “shit”.

Edit for context: the title as originally posted omitted the word “recalls”.

[fergsboy]

To be clear, it’s only the Dutch publisher that canceled it; the English-language edition has been on bookstore shelves for a couple of months now.

[MadLibrarian]

Is this the book by Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank? We just got it, and I’d like to know if there is a likelihood that we will be instructed to pull it for bad/false research in a few weeks. It’s happened before, sadly.

[Brainspore]

Accusing anyone of something as bad as betraying the Frank family to the Nazis without having solid evidence to back up one’s claims sounds like a shitty thing to do. Accusing a fellow victim of the Nazis without any solid evidence to back one’s claims just kicks it up into “Christ what an asshole” territory.

[mrt]

@MadLibrarian

Is this the book by Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank ?

Yes, that one

[d_r]

@Brainspore

sounds like a shitty thing to do

As was pointed out in earlier threads on the accusation, it feeds some of the classic antisemitic tropes that have returned to popularity in recent years.

@MadLibrarian

I’d like to know if there is a likelihood that we will be instructed to pull it for bad/false research in a few weeks.

Thanks for reminding me, I will contact our State Librarian later today and request the book be pulled systemwide.

ETA: Done.