The Anne Frank Home, pictured in 2018, was the goal of an antisemitic projection this week.

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The Anne Frank Home, pictured in 2018, was the goal of an antisemitic projection this week.

Patrick van Katwijk/AP

Antisemitic textual content implying that Anne Frank’s diary was a forgery was projected onto the Anne Frank Home in Amsterdam this week, the museum introduced in an announcement.

“The Anne Frank Home organisation has realized of this with shock and revulsion,” the museum mentioned.

The projection on the home the place the Frank household hid throughout World Conflict II learn, “Ann Frank [sic], inventor of the ballpoint pen.”

It alludes to a debunked far-right conspiracy principle that the diary was a forgery as a result of a part of it was written in ballpoint pen, which weren’t but in use whereas Anne lived. The speculation was meticulously and scientifically disproven by the Dutch authorities, The New York Occasions reported in 1989.

This false declare is used to query or deny the Holocaust.

Footage of the projection appeared in a hate video in a personal Telegram group from the U.S., the museum’s assertion says.

Dutch police mentioned they’re investigating the incident, in response to the Related Press. The museum says it’s in contact with authorities and the Amsterdam Metropolis Council.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte referred to as the projection “reprehensible” and mentioned there’s “no place for antisemitism in our nation” on Twitter.

Anne was a Jewish woman who stored a diary whereas in hiding together with her household for about two years throughout World Conflict II. The journal chronicled her life, emotions and ideas.

She died in a focus camp in 1945.

Her father, Otto, survived the Holocaust and printed her diary, which has since offered greater than 30 million copies and been translated into dozens of languages.

“The diary of Anne Frank is without doubt one of the most necessary testimonies of the persecution of the Jews throughout the Second World Conflict,” the museum’s assertion says.