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Anne Frank House in Amsterdam (2018)
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A text on the facade of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam has sparked outrage in the Netherlands.
According to the Anne Frank Foundation, unknown persons had projected a text onto the outer walls, according to which the world-famous diary of the Jewish girl murdered by the Nazis (1929-1945) was a forgery.
The Anne Frank Foundation filed a criminal complaint on Friday.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared: »There is no place for anti-Semitism in our country.
We can and must never accept this.«
According to the foundation, a text could be read on the facade on Monday evening that refers to a conspiracy story by right-wing extremists.
According to this, the diary is said to have been written with a ballpoint pen, which only came into circulation after the Second World War.
The foundation called this denial of the Holocaust, the murder of several million Jews by Nazis and their accomplices.
According to the foundation, the first name was already misspelled in the projected text: Ann instead of Anne.
Anne Frank – born in Frankfurt am Main – lived in hiding with her and another family in the rear building on the Prinsengracht after fleeing Germany.
There she wrote a diary.
However, the families were betrayed and deported.
Anne Frank died in the spring of 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Her diary was only published after the end of the war.
Her name became world famous as a result.
The house is visited by more than a million people every year.
Similar actions have recently taken place in the Netherlands, in which right-wing extremist messages were projected onto well-known public buildings.
So far there has been no concrete evidence of the perpetrators.
wit/dpa