A Dutch company has been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism for a misguided recreation of Anne Frank’s bunker in one of their escape rooms.
For those of you who don’t know, escape rooms are usually fun teambuilding exercises where a group of people must solve a few clues to break out of a locked room, usually with a creepy premise or concept behind the whole thing.
However, this one is more than a little bit insensitive to survivors and victims of the Holocaust.
The Guardian report that the Anne Frank Foundation has criticised the escape room, which looks exactly like the one that Frank and her family hid in before being captured by Nazi police forces during WW2.
They stated: “It shows very little empathy for survivors of the [Holocaust] to use the annex as a backdrop for an escape room.”
They also added that the bunker made it seem like hiding from the Nazis was a fun game, rather than a real terror people faced.
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