Live Like Anne Frank
Thursday November 27, 2008
An online rental apartment agency recently advertised a holiday rental with the slogan "Live like Anne Frank during your Amsterdam stay." Apparently the apartment for rent is an attic apartment, located across the street from Anne Frank's secret annex and near shopping and dining. And, of course, the apartment offers free high speed internet. No matter the proximity to the Anne Frank House, it seems bizarre that anyone would advertise a holiday vacation as one similar to the fearful, cramped, two-year-long stay of Anne Frank and her family as they hid from the Nazis. Needless to say that there is no way one could replicate such an experience, but why would anyone equate such an experience to a quaint holiday vacation? For more about the apartment for rent, read the JTA story.
Comments
The Anne Frank vacation is so incredibly tasteless it is hard to know what to say. How could the absolute fear and constant tension be duplicated? The experience this family felt and, yes, the Holocaust itself is trivialized by such a thing.
What next? Spend a night in Auschwitz?
“Incredibly Tastless” is a severe understatement. And whoever it is that is sponsoring the “experience” is nothing short of an ass.
Jennifer, thank you for shining a light on these cockroaches! My God, how can someone be so crude as to mock the memory of Anne and the others that suffered the atrocities of the Holocaust? I shudder to think what these people must think went on in the hidden apartment across the street. People died there! I never want anyone to “live like Anne Frank”! Never again!