Nursery named after Anne Frank could change name due to pressure from migrant parents: report

A German daycare center named after Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager murdered during the Holocaust, wants to change its name after migrant parents claimed it was too difficult to tell the story to their children, according to German media reports.

The kindergarten in Tangerhütte, Germany, is currently called We are Anne Frankit has been in operation for over 50 years and will probably be renamed “Explorers of the World”. seconds in the Jerusalem Post. The city conducted a report and found that migrant parents had expressed a desire to change the name, claiming it was too difficult to explain the significance of Frank’s story, and the nursery said a name “with no political background” would be more appropriate. seconds in Harzer Volksstimme.

“Parents with a migrant background are reported to feel uncertain about the name and find it difficult to explain it to their children,” the report notes, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The city’s mayor, Andreas Brohm, said he felt it was important for the daycare to go beyond Israel’s recent conflict with Hamas and that the new name had “more weight compared to the world political situation,” Apollo News, a German medium. way out, reported.

Miteinander and V, a German civil society organisation, argued that the story of Anne Frank was perfectly suited for young children and that changing the name “sends the wrong signal, especially at a time marked by rising anti-Semitism”. , according to a statement to The Jerusalem Post. Brohm, however, stated that “fundamental changes” were needed and that the decision was ongoing, according to Harzer Volksstimme.

“We dealt with the kindergarten,” the mayor said. “We have not dealt with the legacy of Anne Frank.”

The decision comes a few weeks from going up antisemitism around the world after Hamas launched a terrorist attack against Israel on October 7 that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 Israelis and thousands more injured. Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters stormed an airport in Russia’s Dagestan region on October 10. 29 shouting “Kill Israelis and Jews” and Allah Akbar.

The daycare and Brohm did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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