Dutch police said Friday they are investigating a stunt that saw a text alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory projected onto the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, causing outrage across the country.
The words "Ann Frank invented the ballpoint pen," referring to a debunked claim that the Jewish teenager's famed diary is a forgery, were displayed for several minutes this week on the side of the building where her family hid during the Holocaust.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte condemned the "reprehensible" incident, and tweeted: "We can never and should never accept this." Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgz-Zegerius cited the incident to urge parliament to approve a pending bill explicitly banning Holocaust denial. The text was projected from a vehicle across the canal and was noticed by security guards, who contacted police. A recording of the stunt was posted on an antisemitic Telegram channel.
According to the Netherlands' top official for fighting antisemitism, Eddo Verdoner, several pages written with a ballpoint pen were found amongst Frank's papers in the 1980s. That type of pen was not introduced in the Netherlands until after WWII, and Holocaust deniers have claimed this proves her diary, published by her father after the war, is a fake. However, researchers have concluded that the pages were accidentally left in the diary in the 1960s.
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