Police arrest a man in Poland on suspicion of projecting a Holocaust denial message on Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House which led to widespread shock in the Netherlands.
The 41-year-old suspect is arrested after an intensive investigation following the incident in early February, when a text suggesting the Jewish teenager did not pen her diary during World War II was projected on the side of the museum that honors her memory.
“After the projection… the suspect was soon identified,” Dutch police say in a statement.
“It subsequently transpired that the suspect left for Poland immediately after the projection,” they said.
Dutch detectives traveled to Poland yesterday and were present when the suspect’s home was searched and he was arrested.
The incident shocked many in the country, where Dutch involvement in the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps is still a sensitive issue.
Anne Frank and her family hid for two years in a secret annex to the house after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in 1940 but were captured in a raid in 1944.
The teenager and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
Her diary, found by her father Otto, became one of the most haunting accounts of the Holocaust, selling some 30 million copies.
