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The move comes after parents from "migrant backgrounds" started a petition.
A daycare centre in north-eastern Germany named after Anne Frank, one of the most well-known victims of the Holocaust, is set to be renamed in accordance with the wishes of parents from “migrant backgrounds,” German media outlets reported. The kindergarten in the town of Tangerhütte has been named after the Jewish girl for fifty-three years but parents launched a petition to change it because they find it difficult to explain Frank’s significance to their children. Employees also allegedly took issue with the name, saying something more “child-friendly” was needed, something that was “better suited to their concept.” Anne Frank is apparently no longer aligned with the “new focus on diversity.”
Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Following her and her family’s arrest in August 1944, they were transported to the concentration camps in Auschwitz and later Bergen-Belsen, where they died a few months later. She gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl.
The head of the kindergarten said small children find it difficult to understand Anne Frank’s history. Mayor Andreas Brohm—most likely referring to the war between Israel and Hamas and the ensuing pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Western Europe—stated that the desires of many parents to rename the daycare center held more weight than the global political situation. “Tangerhütte, with its educational institutions and all its civic engagement, stands for an open-minded Germany,” the mayor said. The kindergarten will most likely be named “World Explorers.”
Reports did not mention whether the children’s parents were Muslims, but Germany has had an influx of migrants from Muslim countries in the past decades, with hundreds of thousands arriving within the context of the European migration crisis since 2015.
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A daycare centre in north-eastern Germany named after Anne Frank, one of the most well-known victims of the Holocaust, is set to be renamed in accordance with the wishes of parents from “migrant backgrounds,” German media outlets reported. The kindergarten in the town of Tangerhütte has been named after the Jewish girl for fifty-three years but parents launched a petition to change it because they find it difficult to explain Frank’s significance to their children. Employees also allegedly took issue with the name, saying something more “child-friendly” was needed, something that was “better suited to their concept.” Anne Frank is apparently no longer aligned with the “new focus on diversity.”
Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Following her and her family’s arrest in August 1944, they were transported to the concentration camps in Auschwitz and later Bergen-Belsen, where they died a few months later. She gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl.
The head of the kindergarten said small children find it difficult to understand Anne Frank’s history. Mayor Andreas Brohm—most likely referring to the war between Israel and Hamas and the ensuing pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Western Europe—stated that the desires of many parents to rename the daycare center held more weight than the global political situation. “Tangerhütte, with its educational institutions and all its civic engagement, stands for an open-minded Germany,” the mayor said. The kindergarten will most likely be named “World Explorers.”
Reports did not mention whether the children’s parents were Muslims, but Germany has had an influx of migrants from Muslim countries in the past decades, with hundreds of thousands arriving within the context of the European migration crisis since 2015.
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Anne Frank Kindergarten Renamed for ‘Diversity’ Reasons
The move comes after parents from "migrant backgrounds" started a petition.
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