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College student’s video says Anne Frank did not die in Nazi camp

(JTA) – The progressive NowThis news website removed a segment of a video in which a student at George Washington University asserted that teenage Holocaust diarist Anne Frank did not die in a concentration camp. The six-minute video about President Donald Trump’s executive order signed last month that directs “robust” enforcement of existing civil rights protections for Jews on campus slammed Trump for “defining what is and what isn’t being Jewish,” and said it was a “veiled way to silence Palestinian voices” against Israel. The order says attackers target Jews since they perceive them to be a race or having a shared national identity.

Senior Becca Lewis, who says she is Jewish, makes the false claim in the video about Anne Frank while speaking with two Palestinian students. “What’s going to happen if there’s another Holocaust? Well, we’re seeing what’s happening. We’re seeing people die at the border for lack of medical care. That’s how Anne Frank died. She didn’t die in a concentration camp, she died from typhus,” Lewis says in the now-deleted video segment. The original video can be seen here. Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February or March 1945, likely of typhus.

Days after the original had been posted, a link to the video read: “CORRECTION: We have removed a segment of this video in which the speaker misspoke regarding Anne Frank’s death. These Jewish and Palestinian students are speaking out against Trump for equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism in his Judaism executive order.”

Critics called Lewis a Holocaust denier, and said her statement should have been left in order to cast doubt on the veracity of  other statements.

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