Rebecka Fallenkvist called Anne Frank “immoral” in an Instagram story that was later deleted. The post received an outpouring of condemnation, including from the Israeli ambassador in Sweden. Anne Frank has been long-viewed as a symbol of the extent of Nazi Germany’s atrocities against Jews An Instagram story critical of Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank has stirred wide controversy, and caused the far-right Sweden Democrats party to suspend the official who posted it. Rebecka Fallenkvist, the 26-year-old head of the Sweden Democrats’ television programming, described Anne Frank as “immoral” in an Instagram story that was later deleted. Sweden Democrats’ media director, Oskar Cavalli-Bjorkman, told Swedish media that the party took Fallenkvist’s post seriously, describing it as “insensitive and inappropriate.” The party suspended Fallenkvist and was investigating the incident. The leader of the party, Jimmie Akesson, was also quick to condemn Fallenkvist, describing her post as a “reprehensible way to express yourself.” Anne Frank has long been presented as a symbol of the extent of Nazi Germany’s atrocities against Jews. She died at the tender age of 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she had been transferred along with her sister after living and hiding in Amsterdam. Her diary was later published by her father Otto Frank in 1947, and is one of the foremost accounts of Jewish life under the Nazis.
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