A statue of Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank in Amsterdam has been vandalized with red “Gaza” graffiti.

Photos posted to X on Tuesday show “Gaza” painted in red on the base of the monument in Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, near the residence where Frank lived with her family from 1933 to 1942.

The act drew swift condemnation from Dutch officials and Jewish organizations.

“No Palestinian has been helped by smearing [Frank’s] so precious statue,” Mayor Femke Halsema wrote on Instagram. “This young girl, who was so brutally murdered by the Nazis at the age of 15, reminds us and our city every day of humanity and gentleness, in the most difficult circumstances,” she wrote. 

“Whoever it was, shame on you! There is no excuse for this,” she added.

“What does a young girl brutally murdered by the Nazis have to do with the Palestinian cause? Absolutely nothing,” the American Jewish Committee wrote in a post on X. “This is a despicable act of hate, not activism.”

The Anne Frank Trust UK said it was “profoundly saddened” to see the vandalism.

“The vandal may have meant to draw attention to suffering in Gaza, but by targeting an innocent victim of the Holocaust, their message became one of vicious antisemitism,” the organization said in a statement. “With anti-Jewish hatred reaching unprecedented levels in many parts of the world, this distressing crime makes clear that anti-prejudice education is more vital than ever.”

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The statue depicts Frank with a school bag in one arm and another bag in the other on the day she went into hiding with her family, looking back toward her home.

Amsterdam police said they received a report of the vandalism Tuesday afternoon and have opened an investigation, CNN reported. No arrests have been made.