THE HAGUE (AFP-EJP)---Two teenagers sprayed Anne Frank’s house and other buildings, as well as a photographic exhibition, with aerosol paint, causing thousands of euros of damage, the ANP news agency said Sunday.

The Dutch news agency said the youths, aged 16 and 17, were caught in the act by a security guard and handed over to Amsterdam police.

Police said the graffiti was not race related.

Nine buildings were sprayed with graffiti, including the house where Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazi occupiers in World War II and wrote her famous diary before they were betrayed and deported to their deaths.

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

‘’There was nothing racist or anti-Semitic, they were tags-kids leaving their calling cards," said police spokesman Leo Dortland.

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

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.