A group of people from the city of Howell traveled to the city of Fowlerville where they protested the performance of a local theater group. Carrying Nazi flags, they demonstrated outside a community theater performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in Livingston County, Michigan, in a display of antisemitism.
Several masked men showed up waving Nazi flags and reportedly shouted antisemitic and racist slurs outside the American Legion Post 141 in Howell on Saturday, Nov. 9th, during the play.
Members of the American Legion said attendees were afraid to go out to their cars and needed to be escorted out.
The Fowlerville Community Theatre, which put on the production, said in a statement the play “centers on real people who lost their lives in the Holocaust” and added the cast and crew “endeavored to tell their story with as much realism as possible.
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