2024-08-05 06:16:37
The statue in Amsterdam of Jewish schoolgirl Anne Frank, who died in a Nazi concentration camp at the end of World War II and became world famous for her diary entries, has been scrawled with the words “Free Gaza” in red, France Press reported.
According to photographs published in Ex, the inscription appeared on the statue’s pedestal, and the figure’s two arms were painted blood red.
For the second time in less than a month, the statue of Anne Frank, placed in a park in the southern part of Amsterdam, has become the object of vandalism, the AT5 television channel, which first received the photos, said on its website.
According to AT5, the statue was already desecrated on July 9, and then the municipal authorities insisted on increased security at the site, with a video surveillance camera and night lighting.
Most likely, the last act of vandalism took place last night.
An investigation is underway against an unknown perpetrator, a police spokesman said.
Anti-Semitic acts have multiplied around the world, especially in the Netherlands, since the war in the Gaza Strip began, triggered by the attack of the Palestinian group “Hamas” against Israel, notes AFP, quoted by BTA.
Anne Frank is one of the most significant figures of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, a victim of the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of nearly 75% of the 140,000 Jews who lived in the country during World War II.
What was written in the diary of Anne Frank is one of the most influential accounts of the Holocaust, notes AFP.
In another area of Amsterdam there is a museum dedicated to Anne Frank. He is in the house where she and her family hid for 2 years in an attempt to escape the Nazis before they were captured in 1944.
Anne Frank was first sent to Westerbork, a transit concentration camp in the Netherlands, and then transferred to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus in 1945 at the age of 16.