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

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The Anne Frank House, 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 House in Amsterdam this week, the museum announced in a statement.

“The Anne Frank House organisation has learned of this with shock and revulsion,” the museum stated.

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

It alludes to a debunked far-right conspiracy theory 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 idea was meticulously and scientifically disproven by the Dutch authorities, The New York Times 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 non-public Telegram group from the U.S., the museum’s assertion says.

Dutch police stated they’re investigating the incident, in line with the Associated Press. The museum says it’s in contact with authorities and the Amsterdam City Council.

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

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

She died in a focus camp in 1945.

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

“The diary of Anne Frank is one of the most important testimonies of the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War,” the museum’s assertion says.