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German rail attacked over proposed 'Anne Frank train'
Deutsche Bahn wants to use name of teenage diarist who was deported to Auschwitz by train
November 1, 2017 11:37
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Deutsche Bahn wants to use name of teenage diarist who was deported to Auschwitz by train
November 1, 2017 11:37The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam has raised concerns about a German plan to name one of its high-speed trains after the teenage diarist.
Frank was deported with her family from the Netherlands to Auschwitz by train in 1944 and the museum said the naming evoked memories of wartime deportations.
“[It] is painful for the people who experienced these deportations, and causes fresh pain to those who still bear the consequences of those times within them,” it said, although it acknowledged that “initiatives such as this are usually taken with good intentions.”
