Damage to the 500-pound statue of the girl, whose diary written in hiding
from the Nazis during World War II made her a human rights heroine,
included a broken finger and scrapes on the head.
In March the five-year-old, $1.8 million Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights
Memorial was plastered with swastika-emblazoned stickers promoting the
neo-Nazi group Combat 18, and identical stickers were attached to the
Islamic Center of Boise. Combat 18 is a loosely organized group that is
believed to have originated in Britain.
The life-sized memorial depicts Anne Frank standing atop a chair just south
of downtown along the Boise River. Vandals uprooted the chair, sending the
entire sculpture crashing to the ground below. A landscaping rock was also
overturned.
Amy Herzfeld, director of the Idaho Human Rights Education Center, said
Monday it was unclear whether the latest damage was ideologically motivated
or opportunistic vandalism.
"Whether or not it was anti-Semitic, it was certainly a destructive and
hurtful act," Herzfeld said. "The amount of energy that it took to topple to
statue, whether it was a spontaneous decision or not, it certainly required
significant amount of force."
Nobody was arrested in the case of the stickers, which were removed without
damage to the memorial.
Herzfeld said the city Parks and Recreation Department stored the damaged
statue and expected to restore it to the site as soon as possible. The
artist, based in Massachusetts, has been contacted about repair options.
Popular with tour groups, the memorial was visited by about 900 students on
Friday, a day before the vandalism was took place either Saturday night or
early Sunday morning.
The memorial, erected in 2002, was funded by donations from students,
business leaders and philanthropists, including Greg Carr, who also bought
the former Aryan Nations neo-Nazi compound in Hayden Lake in northern Idaho
in 2001 to turn it into a human rights museum.
Anne Frank, born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929, chronicled her days in
hiding in the Dutch city of Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944, when her family was
arrested by the occupying Nazis. She died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp in March 1945 at age 16.
The diary was published after the end of World War II and has sold an
estimated 75 million copies worldwide.
Police in Boise, along with the Ada County Human Rights Task Force, are
offering a combined $1,500 reward for information leading to an arrest for
the vandalism.
"This monument honors the triumph of the human spirit in the face of
adversity, and damaging the monument can be seen as an attempt to damage
that spirit in our community," said Janet Lawler, chairwoman of the Ada
County Human Rights Task Force. "We can't let that happen."
Begs the question - Why is there a memorial to Anne Frank in Idaho? She was
a clog wog, not a yank.
for your infor in amsterdam some youngsters sprayed their tags on the wall
of some buildings included the anne frank house. this was so big a news that
it even reached the americans newspapers who were calling it "vandalizing
the anne frank house"" needles to say the whole story was told again. sigh
You may be right. I've only ever read yid stories about her.
Will read it fuly, later tonight. From just a quick scan, there are some
bits and bobs in the story I was not aware of.
"Heinrich" <Hein...@Ruhrgasnet.de> wrote in message
news:5bftouF...@mid.individual.net...
You're dead right, Daniel.
Heinrich has kindly provided a link to some interesting background on the
entire family.
http://home.att.net/~texmextex/Anne_frank.htm
Seems I've been "had" by the yids again. Damn. And I thought I was awake to
their nonsense.
what still puzzles me and i have been unable to find something about it is
the following. every who was caught in hiding was put on the next available
train to Auschwitz. i wonder what might have been the reason why she was
later transferred, which was quite exceptional for cases like hers, to the
swap camp for influencial jews in Bergen Belsen.
As they've been doing for quite some decades now. Time to send 'em all over
to Ersatz israel.