An official from the far-right Sweden Democrats has been suspended from her duties for making degrading comments about Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank.
FILE - A photo of Anne Frank is displayed at the opening of the exhibition:"Anne Frank, a History for Today", at the Westerbork Remembrance Centre in Hooghalen, northeast Netherlands, Firday, June 12, 2009. On Saturday, Oct. 15, 20222, Rebecka Fallenkvist, a Sweden Democrats official, was suspended by the far-right party for making degrading comments about Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank.
Anne, who wrote a diary while in hiding in Amsterdam before she was captured, died at age 15 in Nazi Germany's Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February 1945. The Sweden Democrats’ media director, Oskar Cavalli-Bjorkman, told the Swedish news agency TT late Saturday that the party would take Fallenkvist’s “insensitive and inappropriate” comments seriously and launch an internal investigation on the matter.
“The book is a moving depiction of human good and evil," Fallenkvist said in her message to the newspaper. “The good Anne, who in the first chapters is like any other young girl living her life in peace and finding an interest in boys , is contrasted with the evil of Nazism. My story was aimed at the good and human in Anne while not playing down the evil to which she was subjected.”
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