(CNN) The Harvard Lampoon is apologizing after publishing a cartoon that sexualized Anne Frank.

Frank died at 15 in the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 before British soldiers liberated it. The posthumous publication of the young Jewish girl's diary, which shed light on life under Nazi occupation, made her an important figure from the Holocaust.

"Gone before her time" began a recent cartoon caption in the Ivy League school's humor magazine.

It went downhill from there -- quickly: "Virtual aging technology shows us what Anne Frank would have looked like if she hadn't died."

Frank's face was then placed over the image of a bikini-clad woman's body.

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