Online stores removed from their sites child costume the victims of the Holocaust Anne Frank, which sold for Halloween, after a barrage of criticism on social media.
Suit for girls consisting of the green beret, blue dress and brown bags, first was described as «a suit of Anne Frank», then the sellers changed the description to «suit girls, evacuated during the Second world war», but it did not save them from the angry reaction.
Anne Frank, German Jewish girl who died in a concentration camp, hiding from the Nazis in occupied Amsterdam. For a long time, she and her family lived in a secret hideout made in the annexe to the house where I kept a diary. 3 September 1944 the Frank family was discovered and deported to Auschwitz. In a tragic accident, this the 93, there were 1019 people, was the last tier, driving away the Dutch Jews to the death camp. After Auschwitz Anne was in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where he died. Of all the family survived the girl’s father, Otto Frank.
When the record was found and published, «the Diary of Anne Frank» quickly became a bestseller, it was translated into dozens of languages.
HalloweenCostumes.com took the suit off sales on Sunday. As reported by Time, as of Monday evening costume is also removed from the Walmart website, but he’s still sold on Amazon.
«We sell costumes are not just for Halloween, and for other purposes, such as school projects or plays. We offer several types of historically accurate costumes from prominent political figures to television characters,» — said the press Secretary HalloweenCostumes.com Ross Walker Smith on Twitter, adding that the suit of Anne Frank was removed. «We apologize, we haven’t had any special intent.»
According to BBC, the incident is not the first case when children’s Halloween costumes become scandalous.
So, in 2014, thousands of social media users condemned the costume on the topic of Ebola, while the disease has claimed hundreds of lives in Africa.
In 2015, Walmart was selling children’s Halloween costumes of the soldiers of the Israeli army during the next round of confrontation between Israel and Palestine.
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— Barbara Warren (@barbara_warren) October 6, 2017
