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In Germany The request to change the name of a kindergarten is justified Anne Frank. The complex is located in the small town of Tangerhütten in Saxony-Anhalt and was named in the 1970s after Anne Frank, the young Jewish woman who was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 and then murdered. Today all group leaders are some parties in the city council are preparing a position paper to reject the renaming of the kindergarten.
The history The removal of the reference to the young German Jew, who became a symbol of the Shoah through her diary, had already been proposed earlier this year, long before the Hamas attack on Israel. As the Frankfurter Allgemeine reported, the parents and works council had asked to find a “more child-friendly” name, although the name “Kindergarten” would probably be mentioned
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The kindergarten director told the Magdeburger Volksstimme that the story of Anne Frank was difficult for small children to understand. In addition, parents with a migrant background often do not know what to think of the name of the kindergarten. For Mayor Andreas Brohm, the change should lead to a “greater cosmopolitanism” of the building. The executive added that current political events in the Middle East are not related to this decision.
The reactions “The statement by the kindergarten management that the name ‘Anne Frank’ is inappropriate and difficult to convey to the children is evidence of a ‘forgetfulness of history on the part of those responsible’,” says the document prepared by the city council. Also the
International Auschwitz Committee wrote an open letter to the city of Tangerhütte and asked the council to reconsider the renaming.
In Italy, the Minister of Education and Merits, Giuseppe Valditara, expressed his opinion on the issue, describing the news as “worrying, I would even say shocking” in a tweet on X.
Anti-Semitism alarm: from France to Vienna But even rejecting the proposal was not enough to calm the storm. In fact, in chronological order, the episode is just the latest sign of a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly worrying, as witnessed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who said he was “deeply disturbed” by it
growing anti-Semitismand anti-Muslim fanaticism.
Over the weekend, the EU also returned to the issue, denouncing that “the peak of incidents across Europe in recent days has reached extraordinary proportions and is reminiscent of some of the darkest periods in history: European Jews still live in fear today.” . The most recent incident occurred last Saturday in Lyon, where a Jewish woman was stabbed. Even before that, the houses of Jewish citizens were painted with Stars of David
Francethe destroyed graves in the cemetery of
Vienna. Similar episodes have happened
Also in Italywith the removal of the stumbling blocks in the Trastevere district, for which the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation into racial hatred and handed over the case to the Anti-Terrorism Department.