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(JTA) — A Dutch teenager who said in an interview that Jews should be exterminated was ordered to do community service in the Anne Frank house.
The 18-year-old identified as Omar E. made his remarks in an interview on the Dutch-language GeenStijl website, according to DutchNews.nl.
He was sentenced to 16 hours of community service in the memorial, which serves to remember the young diarist and the Holocaust, and works against anti-Semitism and discrimination.
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