This is the remarkable Anne Frank The Exhibition, opening at the Center for Jewish History in New York City on January 27, coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80 th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp where one million Jews were exterminated.
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
In the latest entry to Yale's 'Jewish Lives' series, Franklin explores the history and legacy of the most famous witness to the Holocaust.
For the first time outside of Amsterdam, an exhibition reconstructs Anne’s hiding place during the devastation of the Holocaust.
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, an installation in New York tells the tragic story of the teenage girl and diarist, featuring a precisely scaled re-creation of the Amsterdam annex in which the Franks hid from the Nazis.
“Anne Frank: The Exhibition” features a replica of the hidden annex where eight Jewish people, including Anne and her family, lived for two years between July 1942 and August 1944 before they were discovered and sent to death camps.
The Holocaust Memorial Education & Research Center looks at how Anne Frank’s father tried to escape Nazi Germany before 2 years of hiding.
New York City's Center for Jewish History is hosting an Anne Frank exhibit that recreates the rooms she and her family hid in during World War II and the Holocaust.
“Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,” a documentary co-hosted by the festival and the Spokane NAACP, tells of the first organized interracial civil rights protest when the largely Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park in Maryland joined Black students from Howard University in boycotting the segregated park in 1960.
"Anne Frank The Exhibition" opens in Manhattan, featuring over 100 items reflecting Anne Frank's life and the Holocaust.
The display is part of the first-ever full-scale replica of Frank’s annex — one that aims to introduce new audiences to the most famous victim of the Holocaust at a time when anxiety is high over whether its lessons have been learned.
The exhibition is brought to life largely with visual installations, audio guides and interactive displays like a giant underfloor map of Europe
The Anne Frank annex recreation at the Center for Jewish History offers a rare opportunity for visitors unable to travel to Amsterdam where 1.2 million people visited the Anne Frank House in 2023. Demand for tickets to the New York exhibit is high, with weekend tickets already sold out through the exhibition’s April 30th closing date.