Separated from the rest of their family, Anne Frank and her sister died of typhoid fever in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. The lesson learned on Tuesday by members of the Harvard Lampoon, the vaunted satirical magazine founded in 1876, was a bit different. Best not to photoshop the head of Anne Frank, the German-born Jewish diarist who perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, onto a shapely, bikini-clad body, the student humorists realized. And Rabbi Jonah C. Steinberg, the executive director of Harvard Hillel, a hub of Jewish life on campus, wrote in an email to Lampoon editors that the image recalled Nazi propaganda. “Sexualizing ANNE FRANK and saying it is a shame she was ruthlessly murdered because of her religion because she would have been hot?

Source: Washington Post May 15, 2019 09:23 UTC