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'Anne Frank' nursery name change causes anger in Germany
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https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/06/anne-frank-nursery-name-change-causes-anger-in-germany
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Organisers of protests because of the incident say that changing the name would be sending a “bad signal” at a time where “antisemitism and right-wing extremism are on the rise”.
In a statement issued Monday, authorities in Tangerhütte said the idea is part of a series of planned changes that they wanted to illustrate with a new name, but stressed no final decisions have been taken.
The chairman of the Auschwitz Committee, Christoph Heubner, wrote an open letter to the city in which he said that removing Anne Frank’s name was something “that can only cause fears for the future of the culture of remembrance”.
According to a local newspaper, the director of the kindergarten, Linda Schichor, said that Anne Frank’s story as a young Jewish victim of the Holocaust was something difficult to convey to children.
However, the plan to rename the school was criticised by the Auschwitz Committee in particular, with its executive vice-president, Christoph Heubner, describing the arguments put forward as “idiotic” in an open letter to the mayor and kindergarten management.
“If people are prepared to sweep aside their own history so easily, precisely at a time when anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism are on the rise, and if the name Anne Frank is seen as inappropriate in the public arena, we can only be concerned about the culture of remembrance in our country”, Heubner said.
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