There are a lot of terrible Halloween costumes out there. Sexy Border Control agent. Hobo. O.J. Simpson. A race that isn’t yours.
And, in that grand tradition, online retailer HalloweenCostumes.com featured “Anne Frank costume for girls,” a costume that included a beret, brown satchel bag, and a blue dress pinned with a destination tag. “We can always learn from the struggles of history!” the website’s copy began, with an eerily gleeful exclamation point. “Now, your child can play the role of a World War II hero with this girls World War II costume.”
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The Twitterverse noticed the costume and pointed out that a child who hid for years in an attic to avoid systemic genocide before eventually perishing along with most of her family in a death camp might not be the best choice for Halloween look.
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“Thank you for reaching out. We sell costumes not only for Halloween, but for many uses outside of the Halloween season, such as school projects and plays,” a PR spokesperson for HalloweenCostumes.com wrote in a note on his iPhone that he screen-shotted and posted to Twitter. “We offer several types of historically accurate costumes – from prominent figures to political figures, to television characters.”
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The costume has since been removed from the website, but if you’re still in the market to be a terrible person, the site still offers a “Chinese Gentleman” yellow-face costume, and a “Snake Charmer” outfit where you get the double whammy of pretending to be a different race and having a giant fake snake that’s supposed to be your penis coming out of your pants to make everyone uncomfortable all night. Unfortunately, their Mexican stereotype costume is already out of stock.
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