Train dubbed ‘Anne Frank’ causes stir

Plans by Germany’s national rail provider to name a train after Jewish diarist Anne Frank came under fire Monday, with a foundation saying it “caused new pain” to those who experienced deportations.

“The (train’s) naming is controversial,” the Anne Frank Foundation said of the plans by Deutsche Bahn.

“A combination of Anne Frank and a train conjures up the image of persecution of Jews and deportations during World War II,” the Amsterdam-based foundation said in a statement.

Frank and her family hid in a secret annexe in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War.