But it’s perfectly OK for him to wear a baseball cap. A Jewish employee at Anne Frank House could not believe his ears when his bosses banned him from wearing a skullcap at work. Barry Vingerling turned up for work on his first day at the museum in Amsterdam and was told to take off his skullcap also called ‘yarmulke.’
Daily Mail (via Drudge) The Anne Frank House, where Jewish schoolgirl Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis during World War II, stands as a memorial to victims of the holocaust. The diary in which Frank documented her life in hiding became a posthumous bestseller after she perished in the concentration camp of Bergen Belsen at the age of 15.
The 25-year-old was told wearing the skullcap might endanger the neutrality of the foundation which runs the museum and ‘influence its work combating antisemitism.’
Mr Vingerling, as an Orthodox Jew, is required to keep his head covered. The Dutchman was told the brimless cap, also known as a kippah, was banned by the Anne Frank House as employees were not allowed to wear Jewish symbols.
The museum told Mr Vingerling he had to apply for formal permission to wear a yarmulke at the Anne Frank Foundation. As a temporary solution the museum said Mr Vingerling could cover his head with a baseball cap with the logo of the Anne Frank House.
The board of the Anne Frank Foundation finally concluded, after more than six months of discussions, that Mr Vingerling could wear his yarmulke.
He said he was happy to hear he could finally wear his skullcap but still did not understand why the Anne Frank Foundation had made an issue out of it for so long. ‘I work in the house of Anne Frank, who had to hide because of her identity. In that same house, why should I hide my identity?’ he said.
Anne Frank Foundation managing director Garance Reus-Deelder said the museum did not have a policy on the wearing of religious clothing.
‘We never had an employee before who wanted to wear a yarmulke, headscarf or cross,’ she said. ‘We first wanted to know if a religious expression would interfere with our independent position. The Anne Frank Foundation is an independent organisation without religious ties.’
Ms Reus-Deelder said the Anne Frank Foundation was not only a museum but also an organisation that ran dozens of educational programmes. ‘Those are directed at combatting antisemitism. We did not want that for example a yarmulke would influence that message,’ she said.
Meanwhile in Plonsk, Poland we (Jews and Poles alike) celebrated 70-th anniversary of jewish state. Please read carefully. It is real 🙂
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-ben-gurions-polish-hometown-residents-dance-the-hora-ahead-of-israels-70th/
Poland, very happy to hear that. I am upset about the Polish vs German death camps issue and don’t think Israel should have made a fuss about it at this time. It’s history, let it go. Poland is an ally of Israel.
Haaahaaar classic example of the bs hypocrisy out there.
To be honest I’m surprised Western Europe hasn’t been declared an insane asylum already. How is that atheism and secularism doing for you? All of you Western Europeans are fools for turning your back on Yahweh and his son Jesus Christ, enjoy your new muslim horde f(r)iends. Or not.
This foundation says they are combating anti semitism, then forbids a Jew from wearing his little yarmulke? Hypocrisy at its finest! I bet it wouldn’t take 6 mos to permit a headbag.
Let me see, so this museum is all about a young JEWISH girl who survived for several years because she was one of the many Jewish people who Christians did all they could to help save. (See Corrie Ten Boom and many others) And this young man cant OPENLY display his JEWISHNESS while working there??? I wonder if anyone could wear a cross while working there. Sounds like the only ones who could display who they are, would be those showing the hammer and sickle.
The islamists which call Adolph Hitler the second most perfect man and their cali-hate attire (man-dresses etc.) should also be banned.
The diary is a fake, its just another jewish tool to guilt-trip europeans.
Well, well, what have we here…another ignorant Jew-hater in Europe (likely muslim) hoping for a new Holocaust by the muslims.
50/50 it was Frank who was involved.
Involved with what – getting exterminated in death camps?
No, in writing.
She started her diary, her father finished it.
Yes, he did.
The diary is NOT a fake. Imagine, there was a 15 year old girl who had dreams and a life to live that was taken away from her and she was savagely killed she wrote this diary and somebody found it and when her father came back from the concentration camp, it was handed to him. She is only a symbol for all the people (6 millions if you can comprehend this number) who were also killed,. Never forget.
B, is that short for BBbraind?… “another jewish tool to guilt-trip europeans.” LOL the STUPID yuorapeens dont NEED any help in being guilt tripped HAHAHAHAHAHAH they have elected leaders who have destroyed the place using the poo emmygrants HAHAHAHAHAHAH laughing at YOU FOOL!!!!
Oh what a surprise. Are you sure your name isn’t Ahmed, Omar or Mohammed? This is the wrong place for you. I’m surprised you crawled out of your safe space to try to pathetically troll us.
B: you are a real anti-Semite…go away and die……i won’t feel guilty or sad or anything, because you are not a real human, anti-Semites are not people..
guilt-trip….here’s one for ya…GERMANY is getting real poetic justice by all those raping, murdering muz…LMAO….
now B: hope you are victim of something really bad…..you see: I HATE anti-Semites with an anger that is built from anger at NAZIS, muz and any generic white KKK shithead…
כוס אמאכ
A certain consistency. Anne Frank and Family had to make their Jewishness a secret and so has the Jewish employee been asked to hide his Jewish identity. Some things in Europe don’t change or change very slowly..
JF, but we must never forget that it was Christians who hid the family in the attic of their business.
I have not forgotten. The War brought out the best and the worst in people.
Complaints can be emailed from here …
http://www.annefrank.org/en/Sitewide/Contact/
Like cities in other countries, Amsterdam too has Muslims now — lots of them. Also like other cities, City Hall is run by politically correct, traitorous A-holes, who have nightmares about upsetting the Muzz. Can’t have that! That’s the real reason the Anne Frank House couldn’t have a Jewish employee wearing a yarmulke ( miraculously it has all been straightened out now.)
The AFH director gave some garbled explanation that wearing the yarmulke would somehow interfere with combating anti-Semitism. Still don’t understand it, but then we can’t all be Mensa members, now can we?. . .
seems that the New Israel Fund, which is actually AGAINST Israel and Jews is intertwined with the Anne Frank House….man, i give up on this world
the Anne Frank House SHOULD NOT BE NEUTRAL..that alone is INSANE
Then they shouldn’t let anyone in who is wearing any muslim garb. What are they afraid of? It’s not like muslims will queue up and spend they welfare money on a Jewish girls hideout. They should make sure those old hiding places are still in service, because once the muslims take hold, it will be WW2 for the Jews all over again. My mother is from Holland, I am permanently traumatized by my parents war stories of what the Jews went through. At least Holland had the decency to wait for both my parents to die before pissing on their fight to live.
yes, thanks for posting, I already complained and i called the New York City office and left a complaint.
https://ejbron.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/anne-frank-huis-kiest-eieren-voor-zijn-geld/
Wonder who they think they are fooling???? (Must be themselves as everyone else can see right through this hypocrisy.)
so , this AHOLE place which is SUPPOSED to be dedicated to Jews and a particular Jew who was murdered by the Nazis is gonna tell a JEW he can’t wear a yarmulke? this is total meshuggena insanity..I feel like my head is gonna explode.