An antisemitic message was projected onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam last week, the museum revealed Friday.
The message “Ann Frank [sic], inventor of the ballpoint pen” appeared Monday on the outside face of the building where Anne Frank and her family hid during World War II, according to a statement from the Anne Frank House.
The text was projected from a nearby vehicle before being noticed by security guards, according to The Associated Press.The remark refers to an antisemitic conspiracy that the Holocaust victim’s diary is fake because parts of Frank’s diary were written in ballpoint pen, which wasn’t introduced to the Netherlands until after World War II.
“With the projection and the video the perpetrators are attacking the authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary and inciting hatred,” the museum said in a release. “It is an antisemitic and racist film. We are acutely aware of what this means for the Jewish community and for the city of Amsterdam as a whole.”
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