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(CNN) --
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Cheryl Hines has condemned her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s comments about Anne Frank, who was murdered by Nazis as a teenager, made during a rally against the mandates of vaccination.
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine opponent, invoked Nazi Germany in his speech against vaccination mandates Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial, suggesting that Frank had fared better than Americans whose jobs require them to get vaccinated. .
He later apologized for the reference.
"My husband's reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in Washington was reprehensible and insensitive," Hines tweeted Tuesday.
"The atrocities that millions of people endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. Your views are not a reflection of mine."
Kennedy was one of several speakers at Sunday's anti-vaccination mandate rally that compared the requirements for covid-19 vaccines in the United States to Nazi Germany, CNN Politics reported.
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"Even in Hitler's (sic) Germany, you could, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did," Kennedy said in his speech.
"I visited, in 1962, East Germany with my father and I met people who had scaled the wall and escaped, so it was possible. Many died, it is true, but it was possible."
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Frank was one of the nearly 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis during World War II.
Frank, who is believed to have been 15 when she died, hid out in an attic in the Netherlands before being captured and sent to a concentration camp.
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Kennedy apologized in a tweet Tuesday for using Frank's name, tweeting that his "intent was to use examples of past barbarism to show the dangers of new control technologies."
"I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to the families who suffered the horrors of the Holocaust," he tweeted.
"To the extent that my comments have caused harm, I am truly and deeply sorry."
Hines referenced her husband's comments in a less specific statement Monday, responding to a tweet with, "My husband's views are not a reflection of mine. While we love each other, we differ on many current issues." ". She specified that she disagreed with Kennedy's comments about Frank when pressed by Twitter users, including NBC News senior reporter Ben Collins.
But this is not the first time Kennedy has compared vaccine requirements to the Holocaust.
In 2015, at a screening of a film that focused on inaccurate claims that vaccines can cause autism, he called the number of children "injured" by vaccines (again, an unsubstantiated claim) a "holocaust," CBS News then reported.
He later apologized for making the comparison, but doubled down on his inaccurate claims that vaccines cause autism.
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Kennedy, who married Hines in 2014, said late last year that Hines asked guests at a party he was hosting to get vaccinated or take a negative test before attending.
Kennedy told Politico that while Hines enforced the vaccination recommendations, neither took steps to verify vaccination status or test results.
-- CNN's Sarah Fortinsky and Aileen Graef contributed to this report.
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