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Harvard student magazine is slammed for 'deeply offensive' image of Anne Frank's face super-imposed over Heidi Montag's post-plastic surgery body in a bikini The image printed in The Harvard Lampoon last weekend sparked outrage online It was run with the headline: 'Gone Before Her Time: Virtual Aging Technology Shows Us What Anne Frank Would Have Looked Life if She Hadn't Died'  'Add this to your list of reasons the Holocaust sucked' was written underneath it The image was condemned as anti-Semitic for trivializing the Holocaust Senior staff at the Lampoon issued an apology in response to the backlash Frank, a German-born Jewish girl, penned a diary of her Holocaust experience before dying in a concentration camp at just 15 years old in 1945 She is one of the most prominent faces of the atrocities under the Nazi regime Heidi Montag is an American reality TV personality who starred on The Hills 

By Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com

Published: 22:43 BST, 15 May 2019 | Updated: 22:43 BST, 15 May 2019

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A student-run magazine at Harvard has apologized for printing an offensive image with Anne Frank's face super-imposed of Heidi Montag's post-plastic surgery body. 

The image published in The Harvard Lampoon over the weekend sparked outrage on social media as it was condemned as offensive and anti-Semitic for trivializing the Holocaust.   

The poorly-Photoshopped image was run with the headline: 'Gone Before Her Time: Virtual Aging Technology Shows Us What Anne Frank Would Have Looked Life if She Hadn't Died.'

Under the picture were the words: 'Add this to your list of reasons the Holocaust sucked.'  

The Harvard Lampoon sparked outrage by publishing an image with Anne Frank's face superimposed over the post-plastic surgery, bikini-clad body of reality star Heidi Montag

The Harvard Lampoon sparked outrage by publishing an image with Anne Frank's face superimposed over the post-plastic surgery, bikini-clad body of reality star Heidi Montag

The original photograph of Frank, taken when she was just 11 years old in 1942, is shown above

The original photograph of Frank, taken when she was just 11 years old in 1942, is shown above

The Lampoon was accused of hyper-sexualizing Frank by putting her head on the body of reality TV star Montag, who was photographed in a skimpy swimsuit in Las Vegas in 2010

The Lampoon was accused of hyper-sexualizing Frank by putting her head on the body of reality TV star Montag, who was photographed in a skimpy swimsuit in Las Vegas in 2010

The Lampoon's co-presidents and issue editor released a statement responding to the backlash, in which

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