The costume, a blue button-up dress, is accessorised with a green beret and a brown shoulder bag.
It’s “reminiscent of the kind of clothing” young girls are likely to have worn in the 1930s and 1940s, said a product description below the image of a model – a brown-haired girl with a smile on her face and her hand on her waist.
For $US25 (plus shipping), “your child can play the role of a World War II hero” on Halloween, it promised.
But the costume portraying Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager whose diary chronicled the horrors of the Nazi regime, was called offensive by numerous critics, including major advocacy groups. So Halloweencostumes.com, an online retailer, removed the item from its website, and its spokesman apologised, saying offending people wasn’t the company’s intention.
Read the full article by Kristine Phillips at the Sydney Morning Herald.