Sunday marks 80 years since Anne Frank's family was arrested by the Nazis on August 4, 1944.
The statue commemorating Anne Frank , one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust , was defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti for the second time on Sunday.The statue is located in Merwedeplein, near the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam .According to images published on X, the base of the statue was spray-painted with the slogan 'Free Gaza' while the girl's hands were painted with the same red color, AFP reported.
The Amsterdam house where the Frank family took refuge for two years before being captured by the Nazis in 1944 — after which they were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp — has become a museum dedicated to her story.Sunday marks 80 years since the Nazis arrested her family on August 4, 1944.
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