Talk about a joke in poor taste.
The Atlantic Restaurant, a Rhode Island sports bar, has apologized after sharing a meme on Facebook making light of Anne Frank’s death at the hand of the Nazis, Times of Israel reports.
“It’s hotter than an oven out there… and I should know,” read the Atlantic Sports and Bar’s Friday post over a picture of teenage German-Dutch diarist Anne Frank, who was killed by the Nazis in 1945. The post was seeking to make a joke about the heatwave rolling through the area.
The restaurant came under immediate criticism from social media users, some of whom called for a boycott of the restaurant until it issued an apology. The local ABC news affiliate said the restaurant took down the post several hours after publishing it and claimed that the employee behind it was not aware of who Anne Frank was. Two days after taking it down, the restaurant issued an apology saying that the post was “poorly thought out and we realize that it was incredibly inappropriate and does not reflect our values as members of our community. There is no excuse for the sharing of this post, and there is nothing we can do to rectify it, all we can do now is offer our deepest apology to those who were rightfully hurt by our actions. The Atlantic Restaurant prides itself on being a tolerant, inclusive and safe space for all people.”
There are those that opine that the whole Anne Frank story is a myth. A hoax. It never happened.
@confused historian
And there are those who deny the holocaust as well. So what?
Even if you want to say the story about Anne Frank never happened (to which I can’t really claim to have any knowledge of either way), a joke about a certain group people being burnt alive is absolutely abhorrent regardless
And there are those who opine that the earth is flat, that the moon is made of green cheese. So?
The same who claim the Holocaust is a hoax.
What does an alleged story about an assimilated Jew having a love affair with her boyfriend (that’s what the alleged letters are all about) have to do with holocaust denial??? Every story the forward or yiddishe folk put out has to be believed?
I am a Jew, not a Holocaust worshiper.
Regardless, this was an incredibly stupid ad to have made. How does anyone make fun of an innocent victim being incinerated in an oven?
Imagine if someone placed an ad with a picture of a black slave, and writing on that “This is hard work. And I should know.” That would be condemned by every publication out there.
But making light of a murdered Jew was somehow thought of as okay?
Then they act surprised why all is caving in.