Dutch glory?Cartoon Anne Frank tableware criticized

Pictures: Blonde Amsterdam

Blond Amsterdam, a kitschy Dutch tableware company, has created bowls, ice skates, hegel slug, following protests from Jewish groups.

The cups were sold on the company’s website. Albert Hein shop and was part of kitchenware collection windmill, pea soup, drop.

“We were amazed,” said Aron Vrieler of the Israeli information center Cidi. “It’s a very poor choice.”

Blonde Amsterdam later said in a written statement that it had withdrawn the bowl from its collection and pledged to donate the money raised. “It was meant to give us positive memories of our heroes,” but “unfortunately, not everyone is seeing it the way we’d hoped.”

The company described the criticism as “troublesome and shocking,” but did not specify which charities would receive the donation.

Kapp was also criticized on Twitter, with commentators pointing out that the smiling Anne Frank is not a symbol of Dutch glory given the fact that she and her family were betrayed, deported and died in concentration camps. did.

As Maartje Jansma points out, the Franks were actually denied when they applied for Dutch citizenship.

Anne Frank op kitscherig servies van Blond Amsterdam, het is echt waar 😦
Fun Fact: In 1939 the family Frank Vroog joined the Dutch staatsburgerschap aan maar kreeg het niet #MetJeHollandsGlorie pic.twitter.com/ZJjaoWtSTC

— Maartje Jansma 🎧 (@maartjejan) December 5, 2022

This isn’t the first time Blonde Amsterdam has come under attack. In 2017, the company was criticized for a cartoon featuring a blonde woman holding a ballot and a red pencil saying, “Of course I’m going to vote. I like to color.”