The Harvard Lampoon has apologized for sexualizing Holocaust victim Anne Frank in a cartoon that showed her head on the body of a woman in a bikini.
Frank was 15 when she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in World War II. Her record of her experiences in the posthumously published “The Diary of Anne Frank” is an international bestseller.
The sexualization and mockery of Frank, a representative of the millions who died in the Holocaust, was condemned by many at Harvard. , the director of Harvard Hillel, Rabbi Jonah C. Steinberg, emailed the magazine’s editors, comparing the image to those that Nazis had published, and students circulated a petition on Facebook demanding accountability from the magazine for the cartoon.“We realize the extent of offense we have inflicted and understand that we must take responsibility for our action,” the editors of the magazine wrote. They also said the Lampoon “condemns any and all forms of anti-Semitism.
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