The Justin Bieber-Anne Frank connection

Justin Bieber performs Saturday at the GelreDome Stadium in Arnhem, the Netherlands. A day earlier, he visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. (Paul Bergen / EPA)

April 15, 2013 7:37 AM PT

Justin Bieber has created a stir with his comments in the guestbook at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. “Hopefully,” he wrote, Anne Frank “would have been a Belieber.”

Anne Frank was a typical teenager of the era, enjoying magazines with photos of current celebrities. Photos circa 1942 show Jacqueline Sanders Van Maarsen, left, and her friend Anne Frank. The photos were displayed in 2001 at the Holocaust Museum in Houston. (Jacqueline Sanders Van Maarsen / Associated Press)

Girls show their Justin Bieber devotion at his concert Saturday in the Netherlands. (Paul Bergen / EPA)

A 2010 photo shows a gallery at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

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The Justin Bieber-Anne Frank connection

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