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Memorial damaged

The Anne Frank Memorial in Boise, Idaho, in this file photo.

Boise (U.S.): Vandals toppled and damaged a bronze statue of Holocaust victim Anne Frank in Idaho's capital, two months after the memorial was plastered with neo-Nazi stickers. Damage to the 226-kg statue of the girl, whose diary of hiding from the Nazis during World War II made her a human rights heroine, included a broken finger and scrapes on the head. In March, the five-year-old Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial was covered with swastika-emblazoned stickers promoting the neo-Nazi group Combat 18. The life-sized memorial depicts Anne Frank standing on a chair just south of downtown. Vandals uprooted the chair, sending the entire sculpture crashing to the ground. The city expects to restore the statue as soon as possible. — AP

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