Anne Frank is New Addition to Berlins Madame Tussauds
Berlin?s branch of the international chain of wax figure museums known as Madame Tussauds has added a new figure to its collection - a sculpture of Anne Frank. The 15-year old Jewish girl is known across the world as the author of The Diary of a Young Girl, her account of her family?s struggle to hide from the Nazis in Amsterdam. She eventually died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The wax figure depicts Anne Frank smiling, and seated at her desk. While some have claimed that it is inappropriate to display a Holocaust victim in a wax museum, Madame Tussaud?s say that they have made sure to display the sculpture with contextual information in German and English.
Strangely enough, a wax figure of Adolf Hitler sits just metres away from Anne Frank, and the unveiling of this figure in 2008 was very controversial. A man even managed to get past guards to tear the head off Hitler in protest.
