Anti-Semitic Textual content Projected on Anne Frank Area: NPR

The Anne Frank House, pictured in 2018, was the target of anti-Semitic screening this week.

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The Anne Frank House, pictured in 2018, was the target of anti-Semitic screening this week.

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An anti-Semitic text implying that Anne Frank’s diary was a fake was projected on the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam this week, the museum said in a statement.

“The Anne Frank House organization learned of this with shock and revulsion,” the museum said.

The projection on the house where the Frank family hid during World War II read: “Ann Frank [sic]inventor of the ballpoint pen.”

He alludes to a debunked far-right conspiracy theory that the diary was a fake because part of it was written in ballpoint pen, which was not yet in use while Anne lived. The theory has been meticulously and scientifically refuted by the Dutch government, The New York Times reported in 1989.

This false claim is used to question or deny the Holocaust.

Footage of the screening appeared in a hate video in a private US Telegram group, the museum’s statement said.

Dutch police said they were investigating the incident, according to The Associated Press. The museum says it is in contact with the authorities and the Amsterdam city council.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the screening “reprehensible” and said there was “no room for anti-Semitism in our country”. on Twitter.

Anne was a Jewish girl who kept a diary while in hiding with her family for about two years during World War II. The diary chronicles his life, his feelings and his thoughts.

She died in a concentration camp in 1945.

Her father, Otto, survived the Holocaust and published his diary, which has since sold over 30 million copies and been translated into dozens of languages.

“Anne Frank’s diary is one of the most important testimonies to the persecution of Jews during World War II,” the museum’s statement said.