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graffiti in red marker; more generally two different areas of the site were also defaced over the next few days with racist slurs against black people and Jews causing $ 20,000 in damage, due in part to the botched initial attempts at repair. The vandalism, the first since the memorial's dedication
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Museum researcher Brigitte Sion has written that in seeking to use Anne Frank as a symbol for various universal and parochial issues, the memorial offers a sanitized version of Anne Frank that denies the reality of her history. Sion writes "Nothing in the Boise memorial's mission statement, its
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official literature, or at the site itself directly identifies Anne Frank as a Jewish victim of the Holocaust or explains the reason for her hiding, let alone for her arrest, deportation, and death in a Nazi concentration camp".
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Anne Frank is depicted looking out of her family's hiding place, famous diary in hand, having drawn an invisible curtain. The flowers were left in homage after the vandalism of May 2017.
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Brigitte Sion (2012). "Chapter 6: Anne Frank as Icon, from Human Rights to Holocaust Denial". In Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; Jeffrey Shandler (eds.).
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The site not only serves as a convenient staging area for rallies, marches, and protests (and more generally as a contemplative spot), it is where the
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In December 2020, the memorial was defamed with pieces of paper reading "we are everywhere" and depiction of a swastika. This prompted Mayor
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and quotations from some sixty notables and unknowns (including poets, activists, politicians and diplomats, those who survived the
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In early May 2017 the plaque featuring the beginning of the complete Universal Declaration of Human Rights was vandalized with
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The first plaque of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in monumental form was the first item subjected to vandalism
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to say, "Bad actors who use racist and violent rhetoric are not welcome in this community."
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takes their newly commissioned officers before field training.
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sticker placed on the representation of Anne Frank's diary
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Antisemitic attacks and incidents in the United States
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Anne Frank Unbound : Media, Imagination, Memory
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Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial is located in Idaho
Cenotaph
educational park
Coordinates
43°36′35″N 116°12′31″W / 43.60985°N 116.20869°W / 43.60985; -116.20869

cenotaph
educational park
Boise, Idaho
Greenbelt
Anne Frank
Anne Frank Tree
Holocaust
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
public display
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
Boise Police Department
antisemitic
hate crime
Lauren McLean
Running water
Cenotaph detail
Orchids left in homage
One of the only 11 Anne Frank saplings in the United States
Anne Frank saplings
An Antifa sticker placed on the representation of Anne Frank's diary
Antifa
Ten stages of genocide
List of parks in Boise

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