Tiverton Restaurant Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Anne Frank Meme

TIVERTON, RI — A Tiverton restaurant apologized Tuesday for posting an anti-Semitic meme of Anne Frank on its Facebook page.

Management at the Atlantic Sports Bar & Restaurant posted the meme that had a photo of Frank with text that read, "It's hotter than an oven out there...and I should know."

"The team here at The Atlantic wants to issue it's sincerest apologies for a deeply insensitive post shared by our account on 7/22," restaurant management said in a statement. "The post was poorly thought out, and we realize that it was incredibly inappropriate and does not reflect our values as members of our community. There is no excuse for the sharing of this post, and there is nothing we can do to rectify it, all we can do now is offer our deepest apology to those who were rightfully hurt by our actions."

Restaurant management also removed the post.

Frank was 15 when Nazi Germany killed her in 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust. She is one of the most well-known Jewish victims of the Holocaust, because of her journal, "The Diary of Anne Frank." The diary documents Frank's life from 1942 to 1944, hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in WWII.