Quote:German media reports that parents wanted the center to push a message more focused on international diversity, hence the new name of World Explorers.

The International Auschwitz Committee, which was founded by Holocaust survivors, strongly condemned the renaming. The Jerusalem Post reported that the school had had the Anne Frank name since 1970.


“If you are willing to dismiss your own history so carelessly, especially in these times of new antisemitism and right-wing extremism, and if Anne Frank ‘s name is perceived as unsuitable in public space, you can only become fearful and anxious when it comes to the culture of remembrance in our country,” said Christoph Heubner, according to the German MDR broadcaster.

Quote:German media report that the Anne Frank Daycare Center in a small German town will be renamed because migrant parents objected.

The “Anne Frank” daycare center in Tangerhütte, which has been operating for generations, is set to undergo a name change. The decision to rename the daycare center, named after the most famous Jewish girl, has sparked controversy.

The idea of changing of name of Frank, who tragically died in a concentration camp at the age of 15, has come from migrant parents, according to the daycare center’s director. [b]“It is reported that parents with migrant backgrounds feel uncertain about the name and find it challenging to explain to their children,”[/b] the report said.

(11-11-2023, 05:27 AM)ancientlight Wrote: Give an inch they demand a mile. That's how it always goes. When will the Germans and other Europeans ever learn?

(11-11-2023, 08:28 AM)Ninurta Wrote:

(11-11-2023, 05:27 AM)ancientlight Wrote: Give an inch they demand a mile. That's how it always goes. When will the Germans and other Europeans ever learn?

I don't think learning is the objective. There is a real danger when folks start trying to hide history and re-write it as if it never was. History can be learned from, as it is a record of both mistakes and triumphs. It tells us what NOT to do, and exactly how we are going to get our asses kicked if we do it anyhow. Without those lessons and prompts, people are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, and humanity can never progress if it's continually making the same mistakes over and over again.

It makes me wonder just who is trying to hide the failures and mistakes, and further wonder if they might not be planning to make those same mistakes again themselves, expecting a different result.

Why, for example, would anyone try to gloss over or hide the horrors of the concentration camps unless they planned on setting some new ones up themselves, and didn't want anyone to see it coming by referring to the hindisght of history?

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(11-11-2023, 05:10 PM)xuenchen Wrote: They're acting like Anne Frank was a violent hate monger !!

I bet 99% don't even know who she really was. 

(11-11-2023, 06:18 PM)Infolurker Wrote:

(11-11-2023, 05:10 PM)xuenchen Wrote: They're acting like Anne Frank was a violent hate monger !!

I bet 99% don't even know who she really was. 

Let's be honest.

The issue is she was a Jew and the "new crowd" doesn't really like that.