An ABC personality is under fire after making a risqu\u00e9 joke about Holocaust victim Anne Frank during a comedy routine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Concetta Caristo, who hosts the breakfast show on the national broadcaster\u2019s youth station, Triple J, was performing a stand-up routine, telling the audience she was a \u201cgirls\u2019 girl\u201d who could get along with \u201cany girl in the world, even in history\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut me in a room with Cleopatra and I\u2019d be like, \u2018Oh my god, I love your eyeliner\u2019, or with Anne Frank and I\u2019d say, \u201cSlut, I have a diary too! Congrats on the book deal\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
It is unclear what the audience reaction in the room was, but Anti-Defamation Commission chair, Dvir Abramovich said it was not funny.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis wasn\u2019t just a joke. It was a brutal desecration of the memory of Anne Frank and the one-and-a-half million Jewish children who were murdered in the Holocaust \u2013 gassed, shot, starved, erased,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen someone takes a victim of genocide and turns her into an obscene punchline, they don\u2019t just mock her \u2013 they violate her.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went onto say that there was no book deal for Anne Frank, but rather a brutal death sentence at the hands of the Nazis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnne Frank\u2026 didn\u2019t get a book deal. She got typhus. She got starvation. She got a death sentence in Bergen-Belsen,\u201d Dr Abramovich said.<\/p>\n
He also expressed shock at the use of the word \u201cslut\u201d, describing it as a \u201cterm of sexual humiliation aimed at a girl who never lived long enough to become a woman\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old girl died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 after she was found hiding in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n
She gained posthumous fame after the publication of her diary, which shared her personal account of the two years she hid from soldiers during the German occupation.<\/p>\n
Ms Caristo is currently overseas, with her Instagram showing her on holiday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival was held between March and April.<\/p>\n
SkyNews.com.au has reached out to the ABC for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ABC personality is under fire after making a risqu\u00e9 joke about Holocaust victim Anne Frank during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2655,6972,6974,64,63,447,6975,134,6971,6973,3953],"class_list":["post-5146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-abc","tag-abc-radio","tag-anne-frank","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-concetta-caristo","tag-entertainment","tag-holocaust","tag-melbourne-international-comedy-festival","tag-triple-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}