Death of the Innocent

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But the mural’s creator, the anonymous Norwegian street artist Töddel, is defending the work, telling the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that they chose Frank for the mural precisely because of their respect for the history of the Holocaust.

Töddel said they were not Jewish but had read Frank’s diary several times and visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps with their children. “Anne Frank is a symbol of innocence,” the artist said.

“Like the children and women of Gaza, she suffered and died because of her ethnicity and religion and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Titled “Death of the Innocent,” the mural went up this week in Bergen, a city on Norway’s southwest coast, where two local universities recently severed ties with Israeli institutions over the war. Töddel revealed the piece on social media on Monday, along with hashtags reading “#stoptheviolence” and “#humanitynow.”

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/graffiti-in-norway-of-anne-frank-wearing-a-keffiyeh-sparks-outrage/