The The Embassy of the Netherlands, the Argentine Anne Frank Center and the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (GCBA) reopen the statue of Anne Frank in Plaza Reina de Holandain the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Puerto Madero, after it was vandalized last March, the Netherlands press office reported this Friday.
The reopening ceremony will take place on Thursday, October 27 at 3:30 p.m. and will include the participation of the Dutch Foreign Minister, Wopke Hoekstra.
March facts
Last March, the statue of Anne Frank had been stolen from the Plaza Reina de Holanda and later located and recovered in Barrio 31 de Retiroas the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security had informed in a timely manner.
At that time, Héctor Shalom, director of the Anne Frank Argentina Center for Latin America, considered that it was a “regrettable” act of vandalism against “a symbol and an emblem of humanist thought that represents the victims of the holocaust, and also hurts the legacy of a teenager.”
About the unveiling of the statue in 2014
The statue had been placed in 2014 as part of the commemoration of International Human Rights Day at the initiative of the Government of the City of Amsterdam, the Embassy of the Netherlands and the Argentine Anne Frank House for Latin America, which later became in a bill approved unanimously in the Buenos Aires Legislature that same year.
During the placement ceremony, in 2014, the sculptress Schepp and Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, Holocaust survivor and friend of Otto Frank, Ana’s father, were present, as well as national, provincial and local authorities, as well as the ambassadors of Countries Netherlands (former Netherlands) and Belgium, Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, and representatives of different social organizations.
