(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Anne Frank book removed from Vero Beach High School, thanks to right-wing group Moms For Liberty [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-12 Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman was pulled from the Vero Beach High School library, thanks to a complaint request from the Indian River County chapter leader of right-wing pro-book banning “parental rights” organization Moms For Liberty Jennifer Pippin on the basis that the book depicting a scene where Anne Frank and a friend exposed themselves and where Frank walked past nude statues. This isn’t the first time a Holocaust-related book got removed from school libraries thanks to objections from right-wing “parental rights” groups, as exemplified by a Tennessee school in McMinn County removing Maus from the curriculum last year. Travis Gettys at Raw Story (04.06.2023): A right-wing group in Florida got a book about Anne Frank removed from school libraries under a new policy approved by Republican legislators. Element removed The Indian River County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a conservative nonprofit group that questions school lessons on racism and other topics they deem controversial, complained about the graphic novel, “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation," and got the book pulled from library shelves, reported WPTV-TV. “We think true history absolutely needs to be taught, the Holocaust, the Anne Frank diary,” said Jennifer Pippin, the head of the right-wing group's county chapter. Pippin complained that the book depicts a scene from the doomed teenager's diary where she and a friend exposed themselves to one another and another instance where she walks past nude statues. Jon Shainman at WPTV (04.05.2023): Dr. Kyra Schafte, the director of academic compliance and equity for the district said the original "Diary of Anne Frank" is still in school libraries. The graphic adaptation was removed after it was brought to the attention of the principal. It was later determined that some of its text did not contribute to the themes of Holocaust education. "When districts address Holocaust education, it does so without denying or minimizing the events of Holocaust education," Schafte said. The other three titles were taken out of a middle school, all part of a series entitled "Assassination Classroom." While the graphic adaptation version was removed, the original version of The Diary Of Anne Frank (aka The Diary Of A Young Girl) remains in the school library. NBC News, via AP (04.10.2023): Under the school district’s policy, the principal makes the decision on a challenged book. If someone disagrees with a decision to keep the disputed book on the shelves, it can be appealed to a districtwide committee. The Anne Frank graphic novel had been checked out twice before it was removed, Cristen Maddux, a spokeswoman for the School District of Indian River County, said Monday. Vero Beach is 105 miles southeast of Orlando. Other books about Anne Frank and copies of the published diary she wrote chronicling her time hiding from the Nazis with her family and other Jews in German-occupied Amsterdam remain in the school systems’ libraries. The Jewish teenager’s diary was published in 1947, several years after she died in a concentration camp, and it has become a classic read by tens of millions of people around the world. By law, Florida schools are required to teach about the Holocaust, and nothing has changed in that respect, Maddux said. The Morning Journal from Lisbon, Ohio wrote an excellent editorial condemning the right-wing extremist organization Moms For Liberty that is behind the book banning of Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation from Vero Beach High School’s library (04.12.2023): But a vicious group calling itself Moms for Liberty is bent on making sure young people don’t receive that lesson in a format designed to appeal to modern readers. The group is employing a trick used by many who seek to keep our children from learning about the full range of human history and experience. It is pretending it is concerned the graphic novel “minimized” the Holocaust. There is also concern about a panel in which Anne walks past nude female statues. (Again, this is a high school library.) Remember, these people disguise a hateful and racist piece of legislation by calling it “anti-racism,” and pretend they are “protecting” our kids when they intend to do them intellectual and emotional harm. These are the same kinds of people who have asked libraries not to put biographies of Roberto Clemente, Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson and Jim Thorpe on the shelves. They’ve asked a school district to stop showing a film about Ruby Bridges. Andrew Lapin at Jewish Telegraphic Agency (04.05.2023): (JTA) – A public high school in Florida has removed an illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary from its library. It is the second known instance of this particular edition of the famous Holocaust book being swept up by conservatives seeking to purge schools of literature they deem inappropriate. The principal’s office of Vero Beach High School, which is located in a community on Florida’s east coast, recently decided to remove “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” from its school library, according to Cristen Maddux, a spokesperson for the Indian River County school district. Maddux told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the book was determined to be “not age appropriate.” Last year, a school district in Texas ordered its librarians to remove the same book before reversing course a week later following public outcry. Other books about the Holocaust recently removed by public schools include Art Spiegelman’s “Maus,” which a Tennessee district pulled from its middle school curriculum last year, and Jodi Picoult’s “The Storyteller,” which was removed from another Florida district last month following a parental challenge. [...] The graphic novel adaptation of the diary was released in 2018 with the full authorization of the Anne Frank Fonds. Adapted by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky and intended for young readers, the book compresses Frank’s actual diary entries into a condensed version of her true story. While it does contain some invented dialogue and surrealist scenes, reproductions of Frank’s actual diary in the book hew to her exact words. The removal of Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation from Vero Beach High School in Vero Beach, Florida is yet another casualty of the right-wing book-banning crusade led by “parental rights” groups such as Moms For Liberty that is leading to removal of books that upset their fee-fees. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/12/2163558/-Anne-Frank-book-removed-from-Vero-Beach-High-School-thanks-to-right-wing-group-Moms-For-Liberty Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/