This is one of those well-tempered print ads that forces you to really look before you know what’s going on. Most people will probably miss the point while rushing by on the subway, but those that catch it might go, “Hrm” and bring it up in random bar conversation. (That’s totally okay though, because MTV will probably catch the speed racers with this.)
Put together by TDA Advertising & Design out of Boulder for Hillel Colorado, the ad promotes Holocaust Awareness Week (which is NOW!). It features a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank, marked “Fiction” with a library label. The copy: “Millions of Americans don’t believe there was a Holocaust.”
Alternatively, maybe a few library aids just never read Anne Frank. (In which case, they can’t have grown up in the western public school system. Anne’s plight — in print and as a Fox 20th Century Studio Classic — was resolutely hammered into our 10-year-old minds and souls).
