2 arrested in Anne Frank House vandalism

Police arrested two teens early Sunday for spraying graffiti tags on the Anne Frank House and several other houses, a spokesman said. The graffiti was not race related.

"There was nothing racist or anti-Semitic, they were tags _ kids leaving their calling cards," said police spokesman Leo Dortland. Cleaning crews were removing the graffiti, police said.

Two boys, aged 16 and 17, were caught red-handed and arrested but not immediately charged, police said in a statement.

They allegedly tagged a photo exhibition and nine houses including the canalside house where Anne Frank and her family hid from Nazis for 25 months in a secret annex during Germany's brutal World War II occupation of the Netherlands.

Anne chronicled her days in hiding in her diary, which was later published and has sold an estimated 75 million copies worldwide.

The Frank family was arrested in August 1944 and Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945.

The house is now a museum that is one of Amsterdam's most popular tourist draw cards.